Tina Turner has died at the age of 83 after a long illness – but leaves behind her a legacy of legendary performances in Scotland and even a surprise holiday here less than a decade ago.
The death of the Queen of Rock and Roll at her home in Zurich, Switzerland, was announced earlier on Thursday. Her death prompted an outpouring of tributes from fans and famous friends across the world.
The singer was best known for hits such as (Simply) The Best, Private Dancer and What's Love Got To Do With It. She made Scotland a stopover on no less than five of her concert world tours.
But while her last performance here was in 2000, she found time to return to the country in 2014, holidaying at a luxurious Perthshire resort. The Record reported that Turner jetted into Scotland in September that year on a private plane.
She took up residence at the luxury Gleneagles Hotel. Her presence was confirmed when was spotted in the audience of a piping concert, stunning both performers and fellow concertgoers.
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Piper Scott Wood from Erskine, a former member of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, spied the singing legend one night as he performed at the plush hotel.
He posted about the encounter: "Tina Turner was in the audience at last night’s gig in Gleneagles. It was just simply the best. #worstjokeeva? #obviously.”
Turner hosted nine show-stopping concerts in Scotland on her various world tours. She played Edinburgh's Playhouse in March 1985 on her Private Dancer tour, alongside Bryan Adams.
She then delighted Glasgow audiences with a run of three shows at the SECC in Glasgow on her 1987 Break Every Rule World Tour. Turner returned to the SECC for a further three dates in 1990 for her Foreign Affair tour – meant to be the singer's last.
But Turner couldn't resist coming back to Scotland on June 30 1996 to dazzle an Edinburgh audience at Murrayfield Stadium on the Wildest Dreams tour. Her final Scottish date was at Scotland's national stadium, Hampden Park in Glasgow, on July 7 2000 as part of her Twenty Four Seven world tour.
Sadly, Scotland didn't make the cut for Turner's eleventh and final world tour, Tina, which stopped off in Manchester, London and Birmingham without making it north of the border. While Turner never performed in Scotland again, her legacy is inextricably linked with the country.
An authorised documentary on her life, Tina, premiered in the UK at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2021, produced by Trainspotting producer Andrew Macdonald. The film was described by Turner's husband, former music executive Edwin Bach, as the star's "goodbye", saying: "This is it. Closure."
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