Concerts / Tours

Musical On Tour (2022 - 2026)

started in September 2022 as a multi-year North American tour at the Providence Performing Arts Center with more than 600 performances until August 2024 in all major cities in the U.S. and Canada, with a second leg starting in September.

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50th Anniversary Tour (2008 / ’09)

was the very last concert tour from Tina Turner, exactly 50 years after Anna Mae Bullock stepped on to an East St. Louis stage for her first professional performance.

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Caudwell Charity (2007)

The Caudwell Children is an organization to help disabled children by providing access to the services, equipment, therapies and treatments they need to lead an active and independent life. Tina supported it with a live performance of seven songs at the Bedrock Ball in London to collect money. It was the first live concert from Tina after her Twenty Four Seven Tour in 2000, accompanied by her dancers Solange Guenier and Ivana Brnelic as well as Lisa Fisher providing backing vocals.

Date: May 18, 2007
Venue: Natural History Museum (London)

St. Petersburg (2005)

Tina supported at the end of 2005 a costumed charity ball in St. Petersburg, which was organized by Richard Caring to benefit British good cause The Children’s Charity. The money raised was used for building a center in London to help victims of pedophilia. The guests (including Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Hurley, Bob Geldof and Sting) were flown to Russia by private jets and welcomed with a party in the Yusupov Palace. The main event was the ball the next day, started with a seven-course dinner. After some speeches, Elton John performed a rocking set, followed by Tina Turner, who took to the stage in black leather.

Date: November 27, 2005
Venue: Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (Russia)

Hans Christian Andersen Festival (2005)

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author, best remembered for his fairy tales. 2005 was the bicentenary of Andersen’s birth, celebrated with many events in Denmark and around the world. The „Once Upon a Time Festival“ was opened in Copenhagen’s Parken Stadium from Tina Turner with a live performance of two songs in front of 40.000 visitors, accompanied by her dancers Clare Louise Turton and Solange Guenier. Tina was also interviewed and the rehearsals in front of many children were filmed for television. After the festival, critical voices criticized the probably very high fee Tina got for this short performance.

Date: April 2, 2005
Venue: Parken Stadium, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Twenty Four Seven Tour (2000)

This tour became the highest grossing tour in 2000 with 96 concerts in North America and 25 open air shows in Europe. It's a retrospective of Tina's career, including her first hit single from 1960 with A Fool In Love, which she didn’t performed for a quarter of a century.

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The Millennium Celebration (1999)

was a special concert for the New Years Eve in 1999 in Las Vegas, which was actually planned together with Elton John. But because of their dispute at the Divas Show, all common activities were cancelled. So Tina opened the show alone and Elton followed her with his part. Beside tracks from her Wildest Dreams Tour, Tina performed also the new song „Hold On (I’m Comming)“.

Date: December 30, 1999
Venue: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas (USA)

Divas Live (1999)

was a charity concert for the VH-1 - Save The Music Foundation at New Yorks Beacon Theatre on April 13, 1999. Tina opened the show, walking from a black limousine through the entrance into the theatre on the stage, first performing her anthem The Best. After a short greeting, she did a wonderful version of Let’s Stay Together and was then accompanied by Elton John on the song „The Bitch Is Back“ and 'the oldest diva of all' with Proud Mary. At the end of this song, Cher danced onto the stage and they finished it as a duet.

Date: April 13, 1999
Venue: Beacon Theatre, New York (USA)
The Band: Jack Bruno: Drums / Bob Birch: Bass / Guy Babylon: Keyboards / Davey Johnstone: Guitar / James Ralston: Guitar / John Miles: Guitar, Piano, Hammond Organ / Timmy Capello: Keyboards, Saxophone / John Mahon: Percussion / Stacey Campbell & Jenny McRae: Background Vocals / Elton John: Piano

Eros & Friends (1998)

Eros Ramazzotti released in 1997 his greatest hits compilation Eros with a new version of the song Cose Della Vita as a duet with Tina Turner. Because the single was a massive success in Europe, Eros invited Tina to take part at three concerts of his current tour. After approximately one hour of Eros setlist, the band played the intro to Cose Della Vita and Eros did the first part alone. After that, Tina walked down the stairway, singing the second part and they finished the song together. After a very warm welcome from the audience, Tina performed also The Best, dancing and kidding with Eros, including a sing along with the audience.

Itinerary: May 22, 1998: Stadio San Siro, Milan (Italy) / July 4 & 5, 1998: Königsplatz, Munich (Germany)
The Band: Guitar: James Ralston, Claudio Guidetti, Paul Warren, Don Kirkpatrick / Drums: Alfredo Golino / Bass: Flavio Scopaz / Keyboards: Luca Scarpa / Saxophone: Steve Grove / Backing vocals: Emanuela Cortesi, Monica Magnani, Stefano De Maco

Macy’s Passport (1997)

is a fund to support education, research, services and programs for people affected and infected with HIV and AIDS. Shortly after the end of her Wildest Dreams Tour, Tina performed at the Macy’s Passport fashion show in San Francisco a selection of unplugged songs. Sitting on a chair and dressed in a beautiful long dress, she was musically supported by her two band members James Ralston and John Miles only on guitar.

Date: September 18, 1997
Venue: San Francisco (USA)

Wildest Dreams Tour (1996 / '97)

After the release of the James Bond theme Goldeneye, Tina announced that she will embark on a world tour in the spring of 1996, to promote her upcoming album Wildest Dreams. This is Tina's biggest tour with over 250 dates in nearly 16 month, surpassing her Break Every Rule Tour from 1987 / ’88.

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What’s Love? Live (1993)

was Tina’s first American tour since 1987 to promote the movie and soundtrack What's Love Got To Do With It about her life story. Originally intended as a North American tour only, Tina decided to add a few dates in Europe at open air festivals and some concerts in Australia and New Zealand.

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Rock for the Rainforest (1993)

is a benefit concert from the Rainforest Foundation Fund, hosted by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler. Tina supported the fund with a live peformance in 1993 together with artists like Sting, George Michael and Tom Jones. In 1997, Tina supported the fund again and contributed one song on the benefit album Carnival.

Date: March 02, 1993
Venue: Carnegie Hall, New York (USA)

Break Every Rule Tour (1987 / '88)

The European tour that broke all records: 14 countries, 45 cities, 96 sold out shows, 1.7 million people! This tour was billed as Tina’s farewell tour, sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. It broke box office records in 13 countries and was the biggest tour by attendance for a female artist with over 4 million visitors, until Tina broke her own record in 1996 with her Wildest Dreams Tour.

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Prince’s Trust (1986)

The Prince’s Trust is an UK charity organization to aid young people, founded by Prince Charles in 1976. Shortly before the release of Tina's new album Break Every Rule in 1986, she did her only live appearance that year with the performance at the All Star Rock Concert at London's Wembley Arena, to celebrate the organizations tenth anniversary.

Date: June 20, 1986
Venue: Wembley Arena, London (UK)
Musicians: Elton John: Piano / Paul McCartney: Bass / Eric Clapton: Guitar / Mark Knopfler: Guitar / Phil Collins: Drums

Live Aid (1985)

Live Aid was a charity concert, organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. The event was held simultaneously at the Wembley Stadium in London and the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985 and was broadcasted internationally via satellite television. Tina Turner was just on the road with her Private Dancer Tour and didn’t appeared with an own set, but accompanied Mick Jagger on two songs. During their duet on „It's Only Rock’n Roll,“ Mick ripped away Tina's skirt, leaving her to finish the song in a leotard. Tina also attended the entire cast on the song We Are The World at the end of the concert.

Date: July 13, 1985
Venue: John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia (USA)

Lionel Richie Opening Act (1984)

After Tina finished her UK-Tour, she recorded her new album Private Dancer from March to April. To promote the upcoming album, she did rehearsals in Los Angeles until May for a new show with her new song material as an opening act for Lionel Richie’s Can't Slow Down Tour. After her own set of approximately forty minutes, she returned on stage during Richie’s show for two songs together with Lionel. It’s the first tour for Tina without any dancers and background singers.

Opening Night: May 15 / Tulsa, Maybee Center (USA)
Closing Night: July 15 / San Diego, Sports Arena (USA)
Concerts: 45+
Regions: North America
The Band: Kenny Moore: Piano, Vocals / James Ralston: Guitar, Vocals / Bob Feit: Bass Guitar / Alan Clark: Keyboards / Hal Lindes: Guitar, Vocals / Henry Spinetti: Drums 

UK-Tour (1984)

After the success with the single Let’s Stay Together, Tina started a sell out tour in England. Her newest single Help was also released just in time for this tour. The setlist includes some new songs like „Let’s Pretend We’re Married“ from Prince and „Out Of Time“ from The Rolling Stones. The concert in Den Bosch, Netherlands was the only one outside of the UK and was also broadcasted on television. Right after this tour, Tina recorded her new album Private Dancer in London.

Opening Night: January 27, 1984 / St. Ausstell, Cornwall Colliseum
Closing Night: February 28, 1984 / Manchester, Apollo Theater
Concerts: 28
Regions: Europe
The Band: Kenny Moore: Pianist & Lead Vocals / James Ralston: Lead Guitar / Jack Bruno: Drums / Bob Feit: Bass Guitar / Chuck O'Steen: Keyboards & Vocals / Lejeune Richardson: Dancer, Vocals / Annie Behringer: Dancer, Vocals

Rod Stewart (1981)

Rod Stewart attended a concert from Tina at The Ritz in New York in October 1981, where she performed three of Rod’s songs, much to his delight. After the show, he went backstage and invited her to perform with him at Saturday Night Live the following day, which was also the very first appearance from Tina at this show. Rod and Tina also attended a cast party at Studio 54 this night.

In December, Tina was invited by Rod Stewart again, to join him at his L.A. Forum concert, which was broadcasted via satellite worldwide. Tina was introduced from Rod as „another big event“ and prompted her to come on stage, where they performed two songs together. At the end of the concert, Tina (and also Kim Carnes) joined Rod once again on stage for the encore. All three songs were released on video and LP the following year. After the tour with The Rolling Stones a few weeks earlier, it’s the second big step to Tina’s comeback. The next collaboration between Tina and Rod was nine years later with the single It Takes Two.

SNL: October 3, 1981
Concert: December 19, 1981 
Venue: The Forum, Inglewood (USA)

Wild Lady of Rock (1978 - 1980)

After the first concerts in America and Australia with The Tina Turner Show in 1977, Tina was constantly on tour the following years to pay her debts and arrived solo for the first time Europe at the beginning of 1978. Dressed in Bob Mackie costumes and supported by four dancers, she performed several cover versions of popular songs, some old ones from Ike & Tina and some new tracks after the recording of her solo records Rough and Love Explosion. In 1979, she was also for a five week tour in South Africa, for which she was later often criticized. The concert from London’s Apollo Theatre on March 25, 1979 was released on home video. The setlist changed repeatedly over the time and Tina performed some songs only for a short time, especially from her first solo albums.

Regions: All over the world
The Band: Lenny Macaluso: Guitar, Bandleader, Arranger / Norman Farrington: Drums / Billy Haynes: Bass / Kenny Moore: Piano, Vocals / Chuck O'Steen: Keyboards, Vocals / Ravah Daley: Dancer, Vocals / Edna Leyeune Richardson: Dancer, Vocals / Geronne Turner: Dancer, Vocals / David Wertheimer: Dancer, Vocals

Live at Warner Theatre (1978)

was a concert special from Tom Jones with special guest star Tina Turner on September 11, 1978. Tina was introduced from Tom as „she is close to soul as you can get“ and performed first seven songs solo. At the end of the show, she returned on stage and performed three songs together with Tom. The complete concert was brodcasted later on the HBO network.

Concert: September 11, 1978
TV: September 24/28, 1978
Venue: Warner Theatre, Washington (USA)

Ike & Tina Turner (1960 - 1976)

Ike & Tina are not so much known about their records, but because of their live shows. They were the hottest and most unusual R&B performers of their time, constantly on the road, at the beginning of their career in smaller clubs like the Club Manhattan in St. Louis.

With the success of River Deep - Mountain High in 1966, they developed their show more into rock’n roll and toured for the first time Europe and Australia. From The Rolling Stones, they were invited in 1966 to open their UK-Tour and once again in 1969 for their North American Tour. With this wider audience profile in their home country, The lke and Tina Turner Revue was guest on many variety shows and picked up the opportunity to perform in the casinos of Las Vegas.

In the seventies, with hits like Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits and I Want To Take You Higher, Ike & Tina toured all over the world in big arenas and at festivals. They were also the first show act who outsold the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany.