Daily Mail

ANSWERS

- ETAN SMALLMAN

1) B. Anna Mae Bullock

TurnEr started out performing under the name Little Ann, before her husband-to-be ike Turner gave her a new stage name to rhyme with Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, one of his favourite fictional characters.

Debbie Harry was born Angela Tremble, Cher was Cherilyn Sarkisian and Donna Summer was named LaDonna gaines.

2) A. Her voice

TurnEr insured her voice for $3.2 million, her legs for $3 million, her breasts for $790,000 and her face for $790,000, according to a new York Post article in 2000. Former u.S. President george W. Bush once said she had ‘the most famous legs in show business’.

3) True

TinA TurnEr was named the 17th greatest singer of all time by rolling Stone in 2010. Freddie Mercury was 18th, Bob Marley was 19th and David Bowie was 23rd.

4) D. Mick Jagger

SHE told the Mail last year: ‘Mick wanted to dance — and i was a dancer — but he never gave me the credit! He said his mother taught him how to dance. But we worked with him in the dressing room, me and the girls, and we taught him how to Pony [a Sixties dance move].’

5) C. Switzerlan­d

TurnEr, who speaks german, relinquish­ed her u.S. citizenshi­p in 2013, a few months after taking the oath of Swiss nationalit­y.

6) False

THE record she secured, in 1984, was becoming the oldest solo female artist to score a no 1, which she did aged 44 with What’s Love got To Do With it?

in 2013, she became the oldest person to be featured on the front of Vogue when she became its cover star in germany, aged 73.

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