A force and a freak of nature....
WashPost
Tina Turner was hovering over the Verizon Center crowd, singing her fiery 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits" from a cherry picker during a Sunday-night encore, when she decided to go hot-stepping across the hydraulic lifting arm that connected the aerial platform to the stage.
It was a breathtakingly fearless display of athleticism, for Turner was nearly two stories above the arena floor -- wearing towering spike heels, no less -- while her famous, fabulous legs pumped like pistons on the narrow, catwalk-like surface of the lifting arm.
So much for shuffling cautiously and quietly into her golden years!
Turner is both a force and freak of nature at a very late 68. (She turns 69 on Wednesday and will celebrate with a concert that night in Newark, N.J. First, though: Another Verizon Center show tonight.)
A half-century into her career and on tour for the first time in eight years, the indefatigable singer remains a potent performer who defiantly refuses to let the aging process strip away her physicality, making her the Jack LaLanne of female rock stars. Or, perhaps, the womanly Mick Jagger, whose lusty sexuality, increasingly leathery voice and enviable stamina Turner seems to share.
On Sunday, for nearly three hours, including intermission, Turner put on a swaggering, high-voltage rock spectacle in which she easily dispatched any concerns that she's become some sort of museum piece -- even if she was presented on a pedestal: The concert opened with the world's sexiest sexagenarian standing on a platform, some 20 feet above her band.
(More here.)
Tina Turner was hovering over the Verizon Center crowd, singing her fiery 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits" from a cherry picker during a Sunday-night encore, when she decided to go hot-stepping across the hydraulic lifting arm that connected the aerial platform to the stage.
It was a breathtakingly fearless display of athleticism, for Turner was nearly two stories above the arena floor -- wearing towering spike heels, no less -- while her famous, fabulous legs pumped like pistons on the narrow, catwalk-like surface of the lifting arm.
So much for shuffling cautiously and quietly into her golden years!
Turner is both a force and freak of nature at a very late 68. (She turns 69 on Wednesday and will celebrate with a concert that night in Newark, N.J. First, though: Another Verizon Center show tonight.)
A half-century into her career and on tour for the first time in eight years, the indefatigable singer remains a potent performer who defiantly refuses to let the aging process strip away her physicality, making her the Jack LaLanne of female rock stars. Or, perhaps, the womanly Mick Jagger, whose lusty sexuality, increasingly leathery voice and enviable stamina Turner seems to share.
On Sunday, for nearly three hours, including intermission, Turner put on a swaggering, high-voltage rock spectacle in which she easily dispatched any concerns that she's become some sort of museum piece -- even if she was presented on a pedestal: The concert opened with the world's sexiest sexagenarian standing on a platform, some 20 feet above her band.
(More here.)
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