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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Age Ain't Nothing But a Number as Tina Turner Lands the Cover of Vogue at 73


Tina Turner may have renounced her U.S. citizenship, but she is looking fabulous at 73 on the cover of the April issue of German Vogue. She is indeed the oldest person to grace the cover of the fashion magazine.

It would be remiss to ignore that many of Tina's biggest musical successes came as she battled physical abuse with former husband and partner Ike Turner; however, she certainly stood on her own two feet with her Grammy-award winning song "What's Love Got to Do with It."

We salute Tina for kicking that abusive Ike to the curb. It is hard to think of her life and not see the parallel with the younger and not nearly as talented Rihanna and Chris Brown. Hopefully, Rihanna will see the error of her ways and become her own "Proud Mary."

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