Ike's Story: SPIN's 1985 Feature on Ike Turner - SPIN
At one, someone brought up Tina Turner, who at the time was probably the biggest pop star in the world. She had revealed that her estranged husband Ike Turner used to beat her and, frankly, milked that a bit when she was caught up on a tide of universal sympathy. No one knew if Ike was even alive or dead. Ed Kiersh, a brilliant investigative journalist who did several wonderful pieces for SPIN , found him on the uglier streets of Los Angeles, homeless, totally broke, and recently out of prison. Turner admitted beating his wife, but this story helped define him as more than that man. — Bob Guccione Jr. , founder of SPIN, May 29, 2015. [This story was originally published in the August 1985 issue of SPIN. In honor of SPIN’ s 30th anniversary, we’ve republished this piece as part of our ongoing “30 Years, 30 Stories” series. The word on the street was that Ike was dead. No one knew for sure, but word was that Ike Turner had met a Hollywood-bad-guy death. Then last December, an item in The Los Angeles Times : Ike. Source: www.spin.com
