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Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Savage Messiah: Ken Russell => Topic started by: Iain Fisher on May 24, 2023, 09:46:39 PM
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Sadly Tina Turner has died. She was of course iconic in Ken Russell's Tommy.
(http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-tommy-tina-turner-acid-queen.jpg)
I recently added some comments from her autobiography on the site:
"I was offered the role of the Acid Queen.... Ike [Turner] kept me on a very short leash, so it was exciting whenever there was an opportunity to get out from under his shadow. I was thrilled... I brought my own clothes to the set, just in case I didn't like the costumes. Thank God! You should have seen how they would have dressed me... The costume designer, Russell's wife Shirley, said that I could wear them, although she came up with the Acid Queen's clunky platform shoes. Ken Russell loved the way I looked" (Tina Turner, My Love Story, 2018 chapter 5).
The Tommy page is here
http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-tommy.html (http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-tommy.html)