How “Proud Mary” made Tina Turner a household name

In the spoken introduction to their famous song “Proud Mary,” Tina Turner promises listeners that she and her husband, Ike Turner, will bring “nice and easy” things to the song, but she promises to be a rough end. “A promise made by the singer over and over again for decades, with the song becoming inextricably linked with the player Anna Mae Bullock born in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939.

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