Tina Turner After Ike: The ’80s Comeback

Tina Turner hadn’t quite descended into the “Whatever happened to?” category as the 1980s rolled around, but neither was she on the radar of too many rock and R&B fans anymore. Having celebrated her 40th birthday in 1979, she’d been keeping things low-key for a few years after splitting from her husband and performing partner, rhythm ’n’ blues pioneer Ike Turner, in 1976. She divorced him two years later; her future was uncertain.