Thomas Gottschalk also joins the global mourning for Tina Turner. “She was a power woman,” he writes about the photos together.
After the death of US superstar Tina Turner (1939-2023) on Wednesday in her adopted country of Switzerland, international mourning for the musician is great. Even German stars like presenter and music expert Thomas Gottschalk (73) did not leave the news cold. he shows six photos of joint performances.
Warm gestures and lots of laughter
The first came from the TV show “Disco, Disco, Disco” in August 1979 in Berlin. More pictures with warm gestures and lots of laughter come from his Saturday evening show “Wetten, dass..?”, for example from 1996 and 2002. And not just the last picture at the “Ein Herz für Kinder” gala in December was created in Berlin, they both shine like honey cake horses.
“She was a power woman … One of the first and one of the last!” Gottschalk writes about the photos. And he adds: “One of her songs was called: ‘I might have been Queen’. For me she was!”
Official statement
The legendary singer died at the age of 83, according to the Guardian, citing a spokesman for Turner. Turner has struggled with serious health problems in recent years. In 2016 she was diagnosed with colon cancer. In 2017 she received a kidney transplant.
“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’, has passed away peacefully at her home in Küsnacht, near Zurich, Switzerland, at the age of 83 after a long illness,” the Guardian quoted a statement as saying . It goes on to say: “With her, the world loses a music legend and role model.”
Source: Stern
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