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...abusive husband of his raspy-voiced wife Tina Turner. Still, Ike was the mastermind of the duo's seminal, sex-soaked Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Ike first got the attention of record VIPs with his muscular, thrashing guitar on Rocket 88, his 1951 album with Jackie Brenston. Then, after a teenage Tina grabbed the mike at one of his shows, he changed course; for nearly two decades, the pair upturned the worlds of R&B and pop with hits like Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits and I Want to Take You Higher. After Tina left in 1976, Ike fumbled...
...Turner wasn't the lead vocalist on Rocket 88 - his saxophone player, Jackie Brenston was - and the record was released under Brenston's name. Exactly who wrote the song, Brenston or Turner along with the band, is a matter of dispute (Turner has said his name was left off because he had another record coming out). The only thing that's certain is that it took many people to create the song, including the canny, visionary producer Phillips...
...Black and white did mingle in the studio, not physically but in their overlapping styles and choice of material. Turner's piano work, backing Jackie Brenston on Phillips's first hit, "Rocket '88'," has some of the boogie-woogie triplets, rolling rhythm down low and bang-it-till-it-breaks urgency on high that were later identified with Lewis. In September 1954, Parker recorded his own "Mystery Train," a spectral blues song that has sax-man James Wheeler evoking a train's mournful whistle and Floyd Murphy's guitar providing the chugging wheels. Ten months later Elvis covered it, speeding...
What happened in that room that summer was, by popular reckoning, the beginning of rock: not its musical genesis (some folks believe that started with the 1951 rhythm-and-blues hit Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston) but its first seismic stirrings into pop apotheosis. Elvis Presley didn't sound like nobody then, and 39 years later, he still doesn't. He didn't simply make his legend, and he didn't merely live it. All rock-'n'-roll mythology started with him and was shaped by him. And for all its powerful sources in the cult of his personality...
...music . . . in which every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections as Brenston's Rocket "88"and a Johnny Mercer-Nat King Cole collaboration called Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat). This book is so sharp about the music, and so tantalizing about some of the obscure material, that it really ought...