Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonFrom the opening harmonies of Tina Turner's Bold Soul Sister to a carousing finale including Miriam Makeba's African hit Pata Pata, this two-hour tribute to 50 years of female musical fearlessness never came off the boil. Singing star... more info

Pop Crunch — Remember that time when Tina shot Randy…Yeah, neither do we… Randy is a pretty unfortunate name. And doubly unfortunate is the fact that there are two famous guys in the [...] more info

TMZ — Filed under: Randy Jackson, Tina Turner, Twitter Here's something you probably didn't expect to read this morning -- according to Randy Jackson, he was once shot by Tina Turner. The bitch is back! Randy made the strange, ran... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Is it different when it's your song versus someone else's, because you can picture your own song in your head?Yeah, it is different. But this is why I love being in a band, and I love bouncing off people. No one knows everything. It's just great. And... more info

ContactMusic — Chris Brown became embroiled in an online war of words with members of controversial rap group Odd Future on Friday (17Jun11) after one bandmember compared him to Tina Turner's violent ex-husband Ike. The band's frontman, Tyler, The Creator, has come... more info

Guardian Music — November 1983: Number 28 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicI wrote This Charming Man for a John Peel session. I just leapt out of bed and wrote it. It was the culmination of trying to find a way of playing that was non-r... more info

Soul Sides — DJ Cosmo Baker has a weekly “Tuesday Breakbeat” series and for today (well, “today” if you’re east of CA), I wrote a guest post on one of the great 45 King breaks, flipped from an Ike and Tina Turner song. Peep. more info

Guardian Music — Ready Steady Go!, the pioneering 60s pop show, takes to the stage as part of this year's Meltdown festival. Its producer Vicki Wickham recalls the impact – and fun – of the early yearsLike the Beatles' first LP and sexual intercourse, you might g... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Leon Russell never quite hit all the right notes the way he did on his 1970 eponymous debut. He never again seemed as convincing in his grasp of Americana music and themes, never again seemed as individual, and never again did his limited, slurred ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sometimes in the midst of all this contemporary music, be it indie or otherwise, I do at times long for some of that good old fashioned boogie and blues rock from the early and mid 70s. "Ten Years After Live In Europe" has always been one of my fav... more info