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Gelredome, Arnheim Translation Dutch Newspaper YOUNG PEOPLE CAN LEARN FROM TINA TURNER Her fans at the Gelredome Stadium owed it especially to Sophia Loren, that after eight years they could pick their Tina Turner wigs out of their closets again. In 2006 Loren sat next to the retired ‘Queen of Rock ‘N Roll’, at Georgio Armani’s fashion show, and asked her when she would get back to work. ‘You have a gift’, she said, ‘it is your duty’. Turner enjoyed her quiet life at her houses in Switzerland and France, and just smiled at her friend Oprah Winfrey’s urge to get her back on stage. But Loren made her consider to do it, and looking around, Turner saw how The Rolling Stones and The Eagles still kept their musical circus going, and thought: well, why not? Although she’ll be seventy next November, last Saturday in Arnhem age seemed to be a meaningless notion. ‘Bring it on’, she shouted fiercely, whereupon she did a show with an enthusiasm her younger colleagues can learn from. During her ‘50th Anniversary Tour’ she gives her fans an overview of her career, with unavoidable classics and hits like Proud Mary, River Deep Mountain High, Private Dancer and Simply the Best. As a performer Anna Mae Bullock from Nut bush City has unabated power. Compared to Madonna, Turner doesn’t have such an obsessive fear for ‘the calendar’. She just laughs at her wrinkles, and so they fit her better. She doesn’t put herself to a sport school regime as Mick Jagger does, but stays in shape by sleeping ten hours a night. She doesn’t count the calories and just eats a little less when she thinks she’s gaining too much weight. Her body is as strong as her will. On stage she glows with as much energy as the heat from the stage lamps. Those legs below her glittered robes seem not to have changed at all. She’s by no means inferior to her dancers and, wearing high heals, she enjoys herself with quick dance steps. There are moments when stumbling would not be so clever. For example at the sensational opening of the show, when she balances on a scary small tray, way above the floor. Or when she walks out on a catwalk over the audience. The doubt about the condition of her voice – during Typical Male she skips one or two higher notes – fades away when later on in a more intimate, acoustic setting, it’s all about the music and Turner sounds almost as good as ever. The Beatles’ Help, The Rolling Stones Jumping Jack Flash, Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together and Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love fit very well in her set list, and seem to be a perfect choice of repertoire, since the audience at the Gelredome is singing along en masse with Turner. It proves Turner was absolutely right in her decision to record the tour DVD in Arnhem. According to her, no audience is as eager as the Dutch. It takes a lot of firework, trap -doors that burst open, acrobatic dancers and changes of clothes to make the theatrical staging during the film songs Golden Eye and We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) appear easy for Turner. |
