Takin’ Back My Name

Ike Turner breaks with this book his silence to recount a life which saw him lose his virginity at the age of six, marry eight or nine times as a youth, and suffer Deep South racism before enjoying global success with Tina. He also freely discusses the violence and infidelities which broke his partnership, and his sex and narcotics 'fifteen-year party' which ended only when he was imprisoned for drugs offences. A classic rock autobiography, it doesn't excuse the many bad actions in the life of Ike Turner - but it may begin to explain them. The books title was taken from the single Takin’ Back My Name from 1970. It includes an introduction by Little Richard and a discography.

This book is a rebuttal of the image presented of him in Tina’s first autobiography I, Tina from 1986 and the movie What’s Love Got To Do With It from 1993.

Writer: Nigel Cawthorne
Release: 1999
Publisher: Virgin
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover, Paperback
Language: English

The real truth from the horse’s mouth:

This book is dedicated to Tina Turner, and to the memory of my loving mother, Beatrice Cushenberry

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