Tina: How to watch Tina Turner’s HBO documentary in the US and the UK
Documentary has been described as an official ‘farewell’ from the singer to her fans by those close to her
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Your support makes all the difference.A new HBO documentary will explore the life of Tina Turner, from her abusive relationship with Ike Turner during the Sixties to her present-day retirement.
The programme includes new interviews with the music icon, plus recently unearthed footage from over the years.
The official synopsis for the two-hour documentary reads: “Told in five powerful acts, this film from Academy Award-winners Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin is an intimate and revealing look at the life and career of Tina Turner, charting the queen of rock ‘n’ roll’s rise to early fame, her lifelong personal and professional struggles, and her improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s.”
In the film, Turner describes how Ike would beat her before initiating sex, and then force her togo out on stage and perform.
“I was living a life of death,” she says. The documentary also reveals she attempted suicide before leaving the marriage in 1976.
As well as Turner and her husband, Erwin Bach, the filmmakers spoke with Oprah Winfrey, actor Angela Bassett (who played Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It), and playwright Katori Hall.
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The documentary is, according to several of the interviewees, Turner’s official goodbye to her fans.
Bach told BBC News this week: “This is it. Closure.”
The film’s directors, Lindsay and Martin, said it was her way of saying: “I appreciate all this love for me, but I am done, I am tired, I just want to live in retirement.”
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Tina premieres this Saturday, 27 March, at 8pm ET in the US. It will be available on Sky Documentaries in the UK.
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