I didn’t know how to do any of that stuff. “I had a girl working for me who had worked for Ike, because she knew about ways of getting money. I didn’t even know how to get money,” she told Rolling Stone in 1986 about walking out on her abuser. After leaving Ike - and the string of successful singles they’d had together, like “Proud Mary” and “Nutbush City Limits” - she’d had to not only rebuild her career but her life. In the early 1980s, Turner was in her 40s and had become a Vegas act, long before such a thing had cachet with younger audiences thanks to recent successful residencies from the likes of Britney Spears and others. But, remarkably, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” has ended up returning to the culture in new ways over time. Most soundtrack hits have a brief shelf life, destined (and cursed) to be attached to the film that inspired them.
The song happened because of her casting in a big action movie, playing a part that had been written specifically for her. Nonetheless, the story behind “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” speaks to just how revered she was at the time. In fact, it might be a bit overlooked today, although it was always a staple of her live shows. True, they’d been divorced since the late 1970s, but her solo career had sputtered afterward: Private Dancer ( which was also beloved by critics ) proved definitively to any doubters that she didn’t need him to be a star.īut one of her biggest smashes of that era wasn’t found on that record.
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Hailed as her comeback, Private Dancer was also viewed in some quarters as her official professional emancipation from Ike. That struggle began, in some ways, with the triumph of Private Dancer, the 1984 record that featured three Top 10 singles, including “ What’s Love Got to Do With It, ” which went to No. I haven’t seen Tina yet, but I’m especially interested in its exploration, according to a press release, of how she “struggled with the survivor narrative that meant her past was never fully behind her.” She’s one of pop and rock’s greatest vocalists, but in our modern era, in which domestic abuse is treated with more seriousness, her story of survival - she’s been open for years about the brutal treatment she endured at the hands of Ike - is just as relevant. On Saturday, HBO premieres Tina, a documentary that promises to deliver “an unvarnished and dynamic account of the life and career of music icon Tina Turner.” Certainly, there’s a lot to cover: Starting in the late 1950s, the singer was a fairly consistent chart presence for decades, first with her husband Ike Turner and then as a solo force in the early 1980s with the Grammy-winning, quintuple-platinum Private Dancer.
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