![]() Their take on Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” garnered its share of attention too, thanks to an orgasmic bridge that eventually got even raunchier. They spun through Janis Joplin’s “Piece of My Heart” and a high-octane version of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary” that, by 1971, would become their biggest hit. In the U.S., Ike and Tina won over a new audience with wild, sweat drenched covers of the new rock & roll canon, including a brassy burst through the Beatles’ “Come Together” (“I said to Ike,” recalled Tina, “ ”˜Please, please let me do that song onstage’ ”). And lo and behold, when he came to America, he was doing everything!” Jagger later admitted he “learned a lot of things from Tina.” “I’d come out and watch him occasionally they’d play music and Mick would beat the tambourine. He wasn’t dancing. “I’d always see Mick in the wings,” Tina remembered of performances in the mid-Sixties. The Stones met Ike and Tina among Phil Spector’s orbit in England. The Rolling Stones‘ return to America in 1969, after three years away ”“ a period that included Beggars Banquet and the death of guitarist Brian Jones ”“ was what critic Robert Christgau described as “history’s first mythic rock & roll tour.” But on the 17-date spin through the States, time and again they were upstaged by their handpicked opening act, old friends Ike and Tina Turner and their combustible R&B revue. Photo: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo
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