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Jimi

Jimi

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Run through the jungle
 
Jimi

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On July 3, 1976, Tina Turner waited until her husband Ike fell asleep in their hotel room in Dallas. Her face was swollen and bruised from yet another assault. In her pocket she had thirty six cents and a Mobil gas card. That was all.
She slipped out of the Statler Hilton and ran. Not to a car. Not to anyone she could call for help. She ran straight across Interstate 30, dodging traffic in the dark, nearly struck by a truck, driven by nothing but the instinct to survive. On the other side stood the Ramada Inn. The manager recognized her immediately, even through the injuries. He gave her a room on the eleventh floor and posted a guard outside her door. For three days she stayed hidden there, too hurt to eat properly, letting her body begin to recover.
Three weeks later, she filed for divorce. When asked what she wanted from sixteen years of marriage, her answer shocked everyone. She wanted nothing except her name. No house. No money. No royalties. Just Tina Turner. A name once used to control her, now the only thing she could use to rebuild her life.
She walked away burdened with debt, an IRS tax lien, and an industry convinced she was finished. Nearly forty, a Black woman in a business obsessed with youth, with no ownership of her earlier work. The odds were stacked mercilessly against her.
But Tina refused to give in. She turned to Nichiren Buddhism, chanting daily for strength. She accepted every job she could get. Game shows. Hotel lounges. County fairs. Corporate events. She even cleaned houses between performances. While the world dismissed her as a relic, she was quietly piecing herself back together.
Then came 1984.
At forty four, she released Private Dancer, and everything changed. The album sold more than twenty million copies. What’s Love Got to Do with It reached number one, her first solo hit at the top of the charts. She won three Grammy Awards in 1985, performed at Live Aid, and starred in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The world finally saw her as the Queen of Rock and Roll.
Her second act stretched across decades. Record breaking tours. Twelve Grammy Awards. More than one hundred million records sold. A career rebuilt entirely on her own terms.
Love found her too. Erwin Bach met Tina at an airport in 1986 and never left her side. When her kidneys failed in 2016, he offered one of his own without hesitation. In 2017, he fulfilled that promise and saved her life.
On May 24, 2023, Tina Turner died peacefully in Switzerland at eighty three, with Erwin beside her. She left behind more than music. She left proof.
It is never too late to take your life back. You can start over at forty. At fifty. At any age. All it takes is the courage to cross the road.
Thirty six cents. A gas card. And a will that could not be broken.
That is how legends are made.
 
Jimi

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Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix began playing guitar aged 15. But when cops twice caught the 18-year-old cruising around Seattle in stolen cars, he was given an ultimatum. Spend time behind bars or serve in the military. After basic training at Fort Ord, California, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. In letters to his father, he described the rigorous training as hellish and begged his dad to send him his beloved guitar.
Jimi completed his paratrooper training, but his platoon sergeant stated: "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army ... Private Hendrix will never come up to the standards required of a soldier. I feel the military service will benefit if he is discharged as soon as possible." He was granted an honorable discharge and became one of the best guitarists the world has ever known.


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Where were you at 8 o'clock on February 9th 1964 ?
" 73 million " North Americans gathered in front their TVs, that night because it was to be a night different from all others !! ….
These 4 young lads were already a sensation in England and now they had crossed the pond to perform their first live performance on U.S. soil as “ The Beatles “ on The Ed Sullivan Show , a popular television variety show. " Paul McCartney ", age 21, " John Lennon ", 23, " George Harrison ", 20, and " Ringo Starr ", 23,opened their set with “All My Loving,” “Till There Was You,” and “She Loves You." Later in the show, after the band took a 35-minute break they returned to play “I Saw Her Standing There”.
Although it was difficult to hear the performance over the screams of teenage girls in the studio audience, an estimated 73 million television viewers, or about 40 percent of the North American population, tuned in to watch. Ed Sullivan immediately booked the Beatles for two more appearances that month.
All together, “ The Beatles “ performed four historic performances on The Ed Sullivan Show which featured 20 Beatles song. Not surprisingly, seven of the songs became number # 1 hits. In total, the four shows attracted an audience estimated to be well over a, ” QUARTER OF A BILLION PEOPLE “ !!
The Beatles were paid $10,000 what, might seem like a measly amount, still, $10,000 is about $76,000 in today's cash.
The group made their first public concert appearance in the United States on February 11 at the Coliseum in Washington, D.C., and 20,000 fans attended. The next day, they gave two back-to-back performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and police were forced to close off the streets and use fire hoses around the venerable music hall to control the crowds because of their fans hysteria ...If you want to see more about the Fab Four visit: [https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheLostNotes](https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheLostNotes/?__cft__[0]=AZas3_HLSM1MPWIKihPZ8BzGYpjZnwiX6yIf831x2PT033jUAWfpNT9rd_pe2INho2EkrTF7OdIZaxUi-HvGtrHRN0qhSz9k2tt-hMSXjjlGte1M7o6CCRCVxF1vo3Tw3p3OZNDqNUliWNuLmFOU0um8yCqNp4M14KxuWF03fcaI5Q&__tn__=-UK-R)
 
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