World, some sad news to report: America’s Favorite Wife-Slapper Ike Turner has passed away at the age of 76. Ike Turner will forever be remembered as a few things: The maniacal abuser portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in What’s Love Got to Do With It? (the Tina Turner biopic), the hilarious abuser portrayed by Tim Meadows on Saturday Night Live, and as the wife abusing punch line to one of Chris Rock‘s best O.J. Simpson related joke. Apparently, he also wrote music? Who knew!
Ike Turner, whose role as one of rock’s critical architects was overshadowed by his ogrelike image as the man who brutally abused former wife and icon Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in suburban San Diego. He was 76.
“He did pass away this morning” at his home in San Marcos, in northern San Diego County, said Scott M. Hanover of Thrill Entertainment Group, which managed Turner’s musical career. There was no immediate word on the cause of death.
His image is forever identified as the drug-addicted, wife-abusing husband of Tina Turner. He was hauntingly portrayed by Laurence Fishburne in the movie “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” based on Tina Turner’s autobiography.
Question: Is it now officially passe to jokingly shove a piece of cake into a loved ones face? And if so, what reason do we now have to live, or at the very least, eat cake?
Anyways, in honor of the better times, here’s a video of Ms. Tina Turner and Ike Turner singing “Proud Mary”. It is, how do you say, “fierce.”:
