In , shortly after getting into a physical altercation while en route to a Dallas hotel, Tina fled her abusive situation. Their divorce was finalized in and Tina would never again meet publicly with Ike, who died in from a cocaine overdose at age Throughout the late seventies and early eighties Tina performed small clubs and hotels as she created a new professional and personal life.
No longer a nostalgia act trading solely on past hits, Tina became a global phenomenon, packing arenas and stadiums with fans new and old who came to respect her ongoing personal journey as much as her evolving musical prowess. In , Tina was asked by Haute Living magazine to play a word association game, saying what came to mind when she was reminded of her hit song titles.
As the first Black woman to headline the music festival, the Grammy winner combined African American history and her iconic music catalog for a two-hour show that changed pop culture.
From talk show host and business entrepreneur to actor and philanthropist, there is little the "Queen of All Media" hasn't done — and dominated — throughout her career. In fact, it was my very first good song.
Over the years, I have often found myself directly opposed to these uses. This movie has nothing to do with me, or my song. Back in the day, I had decided that I needed to become more professional, more organized about my songwriting efforts. I bought a little notebook and after few days, I wrote down the words Proud Mary.
It was the very first entry in this book. No one ever asked me about using my song this way, or even about the meaning of Proud Mary. The movie poster has my lyrics changed to read…. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. Now that's what we call a viral hit. With the movie Proud Mary , the song is getting its first cinematic treatment.
Henson suits up in her all-black assassin attire. Proud Mary is clearly trying to play up the connection between its titular character, Mary Henson , and the famous song "Proud Mary. But what does the movie about a kickass woman assassin have to do with a song about a riverboat named Proud Mary? For an answer, we'll have to look into John Fogerty's conception of the song.
Originally, he just liked the phrase, "Proud Mary," and jotted it down in his chorus. Below the words, he also wrote something his bandmate, Stu Cook, had said while they were watching riverboats in the movie Maverick: "Hey riverboat, blow your bell. Fogerty sat on the lyrics for a while. In the end, the song came together in a matter of hours, the same day Fogerty got his discharge papers from the U. Army in Then I went into my house, picked up my guitar and started strumming.
By the time I hit 'Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river,' I knew I had written my best song. It vibrated inside me," Fogerty said.
But writing a song about a boat wasn't initially Fogerty's intention.
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