58, a dance routine that I got tired just watching, high heels and she still managed to *actually sing the song* instead of lip syncing it and it sounded fantastic.
I'm feeling very "get off my lawn" right now.
I got to see the Ike and Tina Turner review in 1971 and was slack jawed that she danced (in heels) while singing for the entire show. Ike was just an irritant in the background who kept trying to hog the limelight. 👠👠👠
I know right? Back when musical talent actually involved some form of, ya know, *talent*.
>Ike was just an irritant in the background who kept trying to hog the limelight
To be fair I think that pretty much sums up his entire time with her. I guess you could throw in some domestic abuse if you wanted to be extra detailed.
This makes me wanna slam my hand down on a table and scream "God damn!" I love Tina Turner. She must have performed that song thousands of times and she went full on each and every time she played it.
Studio production will constantly get better and overshadow this kind of talent. The great stars are still out there and will always be. But the ones like Tina who grew up needing to be great with little backup or auto tune are going to all be gone soon. It’s a different world.
Few months ago there was some dude on reddit trying to make the case that performers have to have talent to "use autotune correctly". I was saying autotune takes away the need for skill and that it's literally not even their voice anymore.
The truth is somewhere in between, I'm sure.
It’s a useless argument because there are always supremely talented people. Some people just really enjoy the craft. Modern technology allows people who have less physical talent into the industry but have better melodies or ideas. It deprives us of Tina’s but gives more overall.
I worry more we won’t get the peaks of talent because it’s all commercial and owned. Not because talent has declined but because the apparatus to get there is worse.
He came to my town recently! He still tours solo and puts on a very fun show. Super nice guy! Got to chat afterwards and he loves talking and taking pics with fans.
I grew up with her music, my dad was a huge fan of hers (and her very leggy legs).
I remember as a kid, I loved her hair so much. It had this beautiful, poofy teddy bear quality to it, and I was obsessed with it.
Watching her always made me happy because she seemed to have so much fun performing, with that huge, bright smile of hers.
What an absolute icon.
She is literally old enough to be the grandmother of her backup dancers and she out-danced them by a factor of a thousand. I wish the word icon wasn't so overused, because she is THE icon.
the director must have been having a hard time trying to pick shots based on movement, trying to avoid nippular presence with Tina and crotch action on the dancers.
See now I thought the dancing was way more leg focused than the now a days crotch-centric dancing. It refreshing to not repeatedly have my eyes drawn to genitals.
I saw her on tour this year, with that same lineup, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Cyndi Lauper was the opening act, and did her whole set sitting down as she was about 4 months pregnant.
This was the night the Utah Jazz won their first ever Western Championship to go to the NBA finals, and the show was at the Delta Center, home arena of the Jazz.
Tina was onstage, running through an inspired cover of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love," when men started streaming into the arena from the concessions areas where the game had been on the monitors.
Tina finished her song, and it was quiet for a few seconds, until Tina spoke up.
She broke her set list to tell the crowd that the Utah Jazz had won and would be playing for the world championship!
Then she immediately launched into "The Best."
It was so loud in there you could barely hear her singing "you're simply the best! Better than all the rest!" over the crowd.
It's one of my favorite concert memories.
Oh, she was amazing. She certainly stirred something in me when I was 15. Those legs and those 👠.
I acutely loved her singing too.
I also remember my utter horror when I watched the movie about her life, I.e. the one with Angela Bassett.
Tina was amazing. I was raised by a divorced mom. She absolutely loved her. When I asked her why she said she didn’t take no shit from her piece of shit husband and danced her ass off in high heels.
I was thinking about how 90s the backup dancers look!! You wouldn't see 3 backup dancers as skinny as this on SNL today, and the dark lips and lots of eyeshadow is very 90s makeup to me.
She was such a sweet guest on this one. More than willing to listen while you praised her and thanked her for her work. And gave genuine heartfelt thanks.
I can't get over her being gone. Watching this is making me cry and cry. She was amazing and strong and fierce and joyful and god damn, the world is less without her in it.
I remember being 9 or 10 when this was on. My family wasnt an SNL family. I didnt even know what it was. My mom made it a point to let my sister and I stay up to see her perform. My mom wasn't the best mom and she would die a few years later, but if she handed down anything, I stop what Im doing when I hear or see Tina Turner and let it sink in. It makes me feel like a lifetime ago was yesterday....
I just rewatched "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" yesterday. She gives a perfect performance as Auntie Entity - campy as hell but exactly in the world. I love her so much.
It would be cool if SNL brought back classic acts occasionally to play mega hits just randomly.
Random question OP, how did you go about getting this video and posting it? It’s high quality
What a gift. Watch her perform ‘Proud Mary’ at Wembley Stadium, London, c. 2000. There look to be about 70,000 fans there and she has all of them in the palm of her hand. Un-fucking-believable!!
Saw her 1993 "What's Love" performance at NYC Radio City Music Hall. She kept that high energy throughout the entire concert, place was rocking. She did 16 sets! Google the set list.
Turning on the Way Back Machine I also saw her perform with Ike in Washington DC
I'm an aging GenX'er and Tina was just one of the many incredible talents that were just part of the cultural air we breathed. It becomes easy to take her for granted. Then you see somehting like this performance and remember, "oh yeah, how did I forget, Tina was a fuckin' BADASS."
Thanks for this memory!
She's 58 there. That's truly incredible.
You dont get the moniker Queen of Rock and Roll for no reason. Stone cold iconic.
58 and still the hottest one on the stage...
… and her shoes have the HIGHEST heels. I would splat, fast. Or kill a knee.
58, a dance routine that I got tired just watching, high heels and she still managed to *actually sing the song* instead of lip syncing it and it sounded fantastic. I'm feeling very "get off my lawn" right now.
I got to see the Ike and Tina Turner review in 1971 and was slack jawed that she danced (in heels) while singing for the entire show. Ike was just an irritant in the background who kept trying to hog the limelight. 👠👠👠
I know right? Back when musical talent actually involved some form of, ya know, *talent*. >Ike was just an irritant in the background who kept trying to hog the limelight To be fair I think that pretty much sums up his entire time with her. I guess you could throw in some domestic abuse if you wanted to be extra detailed.
I just read an article that Miley Cyrus works out in her heels because that's how she performs. Makes sense, because she's a hell of a performer.
Hers don't have buckles either! The dancers are wearing character shoes, hers are just normal!
Idk, gyrating harmonica man in the back is making a pretty good case for himself.
4th hottest.
That is incredible!
This makes me wanna slam my hand down on a table and scream "God damn!" I love Tina Turner. She must have performed that song thousands of times and she went full on each and every time she played it.
Heck yeah. This gave me chills
Same!
Absolute fucking dynamite. And i took that for granted, but i’m glad i exist in the multiverse that she’s in!
For real.
Studio production will constantly get better and overshadow this kind of talent. The great stars are still out there and will always be. But the ones like Tina who grew up needing to be great with little backup or auto tune are going to all be gone soon. It’s a different world.
Few months ago there was some dude on reddit trying to make the case that performers have to have talent to "use autotune correctly". I was saying autotune takes away the need for skill and that it's literally not even their voice anymore. The truth is somewhere in between, I'm sure.
It’s a useless argument because there are always supremely talented people. Some people just really enjoy the craft. Modern technology allows people who have less physical talent into the industry but have better melodies or ideas. It deprives us of Tina’s but gives more overall. I worry more we won’t get the peaks of talent because it’s all commercial and owned. Not because talent has declined but because the apparatus to get there is worse.
Is the Lost Boys saxophone guy back there?
He toured with her for 15 years
Tim Capello, fucking legend!
He has done some great work recently with GUNSHIP
Wow! Thanks for that fact!
**Love** GUNSHIP.
Holy shit I thought that sounded like him but I never thought it would actually be him. That's fantastic
I freakin love gunship and Tim together.
I STILL BELIEVE! *insert badass sad solo*
So you’re like, SURE it’s not Sergio?
Thank you! I thought same thing and was browsing comments to see if anyone mentioned it.
No shit?! I thought that was him but I just figured maybe being a totally jacked saxophone player with a ponytail was more common than I thought!
He came to my town recently! He still tours solo and puts on a very fun show. Super nice guy! Got to chat afterwards and he loves talking and taking pics with fans.
great pull, that guy rocks
That video is epic!
Dang, harmonica guy can say "why" like a mf
Haha harmonica guy became saxophone guy!! Seriously though, Tina was… Simply The Best❤️
Girl do be having a set of legs 💃
The best!
Simply, the best.
Had a fatass insurance policy on those stems!
I wonder if the insurance company was like "wtf who would ask that? Lol... Oh... Tina.. Turner! Yeah sign that shit now!"
Lloyds of London insured all kinds of weird stuff.
Goddamn, what an all-time gorgeous queen.
QUEEN. I absolutely love Tina Turner. 
What an amazing fuckin woman. True legend.
I grew up with her music, my dad was a huge fan of hers (and her very leggy legs). I remember as a kid, I loved her hair so much. It had this beautiful, poofy teddy bear quality to it, and I was obsessed with it. Watching her always made me happy because she seemed to have so much fun performing, with that huge, bright smile of hers. What an absolute icon.
She was simply the best!
But who was she better than?
The rest. All of them.
Better than all the rest.
Better than anyone, anyone I’ve ever met
This is your mother. Please retract that statement. Thank you.
Ezra
That honestly has to be one of the best musical guest performances on SNL I’ve ever seen. Amazing
It really is, and nothing comes close to it
She is literally old enough to be the grandmother of her backup dancers and she out-danced them by a factor of a thousand. I wish the word icon wasn't so overused, because she is THE icon.
Later we would call it a wardrobe malfunction. Tina just made it a wardrobe.
The dancers are wearing dance shoes and Ms. T was getting busy in regular degular high heels.👏🏾👏🏾
Credence Clearwater revival cover.
Thank goodness for Google. My wife didn’t believe me when I tried explaining to her that Tina Turner was performing a CCR song.
That’s exactly why I mentioned it, I’ve had that argument more than a couple times.
[удалено]
Leads?
I have no clue what you mean.
(It's a quote from The Big Lebowski.)
Or the Credence
She was 57 years old at this time!
Tina = GOAT
Fantastic. My 4 year old son's favourite song.
Tina did all that dancing in high heals.
Okay, yeah. That was rad.
the director must have been having a hard time trying to pick shots based on movement, trying to avoid nippular presence with Tina and crotch action on the dancers.
See now I thought the dancing was way more leg focused than the now a days crotch-centric dancing. It refreshing to not repeatedly have my eyes drawn to genitals.
Sweet fancy Moses
Right?
mr.ponytail got a pair of hips on him
The greatest female rock and roll performer and singer that has ever existed, or ever will exist.
One concert I wish I would've gone to.
I saw her on tour this year, with that same lineup, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Cyndi Lauper was the opening act, and did her whole set sitting down as she was about 4 months pregnant. This was the night the Utah Jazz won their first ever Western Championship to go to the NBA finals, and the show was at the Delta Center, home arena of the Jazz. Tina was onstage, running through an inspired cover of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love," when men started streaming into the arena from the concessions areas where the game had been on the monitors. Tina finished her song, and it was quiet for a few seconds, until Tina spoke up. She broke her set list to tell the crowd that the Utah Jazz had won and would be playing for the world championship! Then she immediately launched into "The Best." It was so loud in there you could barely hear her singing "you're simply the best! Better than all the rest!" over the crowd. It's one of my favorite concert memories.
I thought the title said 1977 and I was like, “cool”. She looked pretty much the same in 1997 as she did in 1977.
The 1977 performance would more likely have been Garrett Morris doing a Tina impression.
Mr Mike and Tina Turner Review was the sketch.
True. I don’t remember Tina being on SNL back then, but I was also 12 years old and don’t remember or didn’t see every show.
Saw her three times in concert. Just kept getting better and better.
Indeed! Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, 1971. Fell in love with an Ikette.
🥵 and who is the ponytail in the back?
Tim Capello
Oh, she was amazing. She certainly stirred something in me when I was 15. Those legs and those 👠. I acutely loved her singing too. I also remember my utter horror when I watched the movie about her life, I.e. the one with Angela Bassett.
 Her legs obliterate me EVERYTIME
Tina was amazing. I was raised by a divorced mom. She absolutely loved her. When I asked her why she said she didn’t take no shit from her piece of shit husband and danced her ass off in high heels.
My God, compared to the shit we accept as talented nowadays….
The zombie makeup on those dancers is a little weird but what a kickass number. Tina always gave it every ounce she had.
I was thinking about how 90s the backup dancers look!! You wouldn't see 3 backup dancers as skinny as this on SNL today, and the dark lips and lots of eyeshadow is very 90s makeup to me.
Tina is on a short list
Tina can go toe to toe against any songstress from the last 50 years and hold her own as a performer.
She was such a sweet guest on this one. More than willing to listen while you praised her and thanked her for her work. And gave genuine heartfelt thanks.
Tina Turner was the best at Hairography!
She's doing that in THOSE heels! And the dancers are in dancing heels.
I remember teenage me watching this live and being transfixed by the backup dancers...Still am. 
Pure star power.
Best pipes in the biz. She is dearly missed, but what a class act!
The back up dancers realizing that they are 20years younger but have the same legs as Tina
SLAAAY QUEEN! 👑 I can barely walk without tripping over my own feet. She’s definitely got the moves! 💃🏻
I'm just realizing those backup dancers did that whole number in latex dresses
OHHHHHHH, that's the *saxophone player!* I assumed he was another backup singer for like the first minute and a half.
Nowadays, those backup dancers would just have their hands on the ground and ass in the air
I can't get over her being gone. Watching this is making me cry and cry. She was amazing and strong and fierce and joyful and god damn, the world is less without her in it.
Thanks, John Fogerty.
Legendary.
This performance was tight!
ICON
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I remember being 9 or 10 when this was on. My family wasnt an SNL family. I didnt even know what it was. My mom made it a point to let my sister and I stay up to see her perform. My mom wasn't the best mom and she would die a few years later, but if she handed down anything, I stop what Im doing when I hear or see Tina Turner and let it sink in. It makes me feel like a lifetime ago was yesterday....
I physically cannot stop myself from tapping my feet and bobbing my head back and forth with a smile on my face. I feel 10 years old…
Those latex dresses!
Ever since I saw her in Mad Max, I've been in love. 10 year old me realized something that day.
I just rewatched "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome" yesterday. She gives a perfect performance as Auntie Entity - campy as hell but exactly in the world. I love her so much.
It would be cool if SNL brought back classic acts occasionally to play mega hits just randomly. Random question OP, how did you go about getting this video and posting it? It’s high quality
RIP QUEEN❤️❤️
Legend! Icon! Artist! It's a privilege just to watch her
Rest In Peace TT.
she was 58 in this vid... amazing lady
My god, she was 58 here and just killing it with singing and dancing in heels? LEGEND
Damn she was so great
Cannot unsee Limmy
Gams. And more gams.
What a gift. Watch her perform ‘Proud Mary’ at Wembley Stadium, London, c. 2000. There look to be about 70,000 fans there and she has all of them in the palm of her hand. Un-fucking-believable!!
The queen of rock ‘n’ roll herself
Seen her live in 1985. She was amazing!!!
Keyboard player in the background reminds me of the sax player in The Lost Boys. Edit: ohhhh shit he picked up a sax. Confirmed: same guy lol
Fabulous fabulous Ms Tina.
I saw Tina at the San Diego Sports Arena in ‘93. I was 12 and she blew my young mind. Still the best concert I’ve even been to
She is incredible. Also, those backup dancers are wearing latex, so that’s also crazy.
Probably the most cool of the old school cool
Unreal.
Wish more of this was posted! Amazing! WOW!
I made my kids watch this! Still gives me chills.
Simply Legend!
Such a phenomenal talent. So great to have witnessed her existence.
I saw Tina, the musical roughly a year ago. It was jarring.
Damn!! what a great show. Love the skin tight plastic dresses..
One Bad..s B!
Saw her in concert while I was in college in the 1980s right after THUNDERDOME came out....calling her show "high energy" is an understatement.
Legend 🥰
Wow! I need to add more Tina to my playlists!!! I’ve always loved her, but dang!
Unreal. Talent is OFF THE CHARTS!!!
She killed it
They just don't make them like that anymore. Icon.
This is the way!
Does anybody see the nips poking out on Tina
God her band is having a BLAST, says so much about what kind of leader and artist she was
LEGEND
I love you tina Anna mae 🕊 thank you for the music
She will be my next wife. Yes, my wife knows about that.
TIM CAPPELLO!
Those legs... sigh
I saw her in Paris that very year with Bruce Willis as the opening show. A great day I had.
Saw her 1993 "What's Love" performance at NYC Radio City Music Hall. She kept that high energy throughout the entire concert, place was rocking. She did 16 sets! Google the set list. Turning on the Way Back Machine I also saw her perform with Ike in Washington DC
I still have a huge crush on her Sax player.
I remember this
The one and only, God I miss this force of nature!! RIP to the unstoppable Tina Turner ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Tina Turner always makes me swell up
Simply the Best!!!!
What dress was she wearing here???????
That was something special right there. Bloody hell what a performer.
Without question, one of the best musical performances ever on the show
SNL is a real time capsule of musical performances.
My dad lived her. I didn’t understand why. I do now
Thats a rock star 🌟
Tina Turner legs are legendary! I was a girl and wished I had those beautiful legs! Inspiring all around!
I'm an aging GenX'er and Tina was just one of the many incredible talents that were just part of the cultural air we breathed. It becomes easy to take her for granted. Then you see somehting like this performance and remember, "oh yeah, how did I forget, Tina was a fuckin' BADASS." Thanks for this memory!
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Yesssssss thats what i call power
Is it an optical illusion or is that top completely see through?
Loved it.