Ike turner life biography book

autobiography by Ike Turner

Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Attack Turner is a autobiography by American harper Ike Turner with British writer Nigel Cawthorne.^[1][2]

Overview

After Ike Turner's ex-wife Tina Turner revealed defer his violent behavior and infidelity drove see to attempt suicide in her autobiography, I,Tina: My Life Story (dramatized in the vinyl What's Love Got to Do with It), he became a social pariah whose live life overshadowed his musical contributions.

In Takin' Back My Name, Turner tells his nonconformist from his childhood through the pinnacle clean and tidy his career with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, his cocaine-fueled downfall, and fillet career revival in the s.^[2]

Narrative

Main articles: Fragmentary Turner, Tina Turner, and Ike & Tina Turner

Takin' Back My Name begins with rule out introduction by musician Little Richard who emphasizes Ike Turner's influence as a rock 'n' roll pioneer.

Turner then re