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PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF\u2019S 1975 LOS ANGELES shoot with husband-and-wife R&B duo Ike and Tina Turner was among the most memorable of his storied career. \u201cThe footage was riveting,\u201d he says. \u201cThey performed an amazing version of \u2018Nutbush City Limits\u2019 right there in my studio. There was incredible energy and vitality between them.\u201d Seeff recalls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1629,3262],"tags":[3032,10164,3280,10166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5433,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5413\/revisions\/5433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Encore-Ike-and-Tina-Dec-2011-album.jpg\" "\\"Encore-Ike-and-Tina-Dec-2011-album\\"")
PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF\u2019S 1975 LOS ANGELES shoot with husband-and-wife R&B duo Ike and Tina Turner was among the most memorable of his storied career. \u201cThe footage was riveting,\u201d he says. \u201cThey performed an amazing version of \u2018Nutbush City Limits\u2019 right there in my studio. There was incredible energy and vitality between them.\u201d Seeff recalls that the couple\u2019s contrasting personalities made their interactions all the more compelling. \u201cTina was a whirlwind of freedom and spontaneity,\u201d he says. \u201cShe was teasing Ike, trying to get him to loosen up, but there was an edge about it. It was as if she was challenging him just a bit. It felt almost dangerous but at the same time ecstatically creative.\u201d Ike, on the other hand, was reserved and controlled. \u201cHe was very charismatic,\u201d Seeff says. \u201cHe had a regal, majestic quality about him, and a tremendous sense of who he was.\u201d A planned shot of the pair kissing didn\u2019t pan out\u2014the two \u201cnever quite got there,\u201d Seeff says. \u201cI didn\u2019t see love and affection between them as much as I saw an intense creative interaction.\u201d Indeed, the Turners split acrimoniously just a year later; Ike Turner died in 2007. An image from the session adorned the cover of the 1997 compilation Bold Soul Sister: The Best of the Blue Thumb Recordings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"