Simply Tina: Photographs

With an introduction by Martyn Ware (of Heaven 17 and The Human League)

Tina Turner: singer, trailblazer, icon. One of the best-known and most-beloved performers of all time, Simply Tina documents her life, career, and relationship with celebrated music photographer Paul Cox.

When Paul Cox captured Tina’s legendary 1983 comeback performance with Heaven 17, it was the beginning of a friendship that would last for over two decades. During that time, Paul was commissioned to photograph Tina for numerous video shoots and live performances.

This unique and intimate collection contains a variety of never-before-seen images, telling the story of Tina’s career through a mixture of live photos, video shoots, promo shots, candid images and sessions in the recording studio, as well as photographs with such high-profile friends as David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams and many more.

Intrinsically linked to
the music scene from the late 1970’s Paul Cox started his career at LFI, an
established picture agency, where he embarked on an adventurous career
photographing live bands at venues in London. Artists such as Blondie, Sid
Vicious, Ian Drury - to name a few - were photographed by Paul at iconic venues
such as the Marquee, Hope and Anchor pub and the Electric Ballroom. During this
period Paul did a lot of live shoots, but also worked for a number of music
magazines and record companies.

After three years Paul left the agency and set
up a partnership with a fellow photographer from LFI. They set up a studio in
an amazing run-down building in Belgravia, London. After a few years there they moved
to the studio in Fulham, London going their separate ways in the mid-eighties. Paul
went on to become one of the most prolific photographers of the music scene in
that era, photographing pretty much every band that entered the Top 40.