Tina Turner came out of retirement to perform a duet with Beyonce at the Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, Tina’s first concert performance in more than seven years.
Turner, 68, and in comparison youngster Beyonce, 26, got the crowd on their feet with a lively version of “Proud Mary,” for which Tina won a Grammy in 1972. By the end, Beyonce looked exhausted, but Turner seemed ready for more.
(11 / 02 / 2008)
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Plans for the Grammys’ blowout 50th-anniversary show are back in full swing, now that the striking writers have agreed not to picket the Feb. 10 broadcast. We can tell you some of what those plans are. According to a well-placed source, the big ’surprise’ number will be a duet by Beyonce and Tina Turner, who has only rarely performed since 2000.
Recent sightings of Britney Spears at the Millennium Dance Studio in North Hollywood had led some fans to speculate that she might be rehearsing a big Grammys routine, à la her aborted ‘comeback’ at the VMAs in Las Vegas. When we followed up this rumor with our highly placed insider, the source told us: ‘Britney is banned from the building.’
(26 / 01 / 2008)
