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Love and Let Love!
"All You Need Is Love" meant empathy, intimacy, support, selflessness, and spiritual solidarity. These are the tonics to alienation, segregation, hostility, selfishness, and existential emptiness. The expression of love is a sacred act and a spiritual pact. It may be fleeting, maybe only a cherished moment, or perhaps as deep as life is long. But the selfless act of giving of ourselves for another's benefit lifts us into the better angels of our nature. Hate only degrades and destroys. Love nourishes the individual soul and the human species. Without it, we will not survive. Love is love and Hate ain't; it can't be legislated, leveled, or lynched. Let no one put it asunder. This is a tribute to love; it's stirrings; it's courtship; its consumation; its playful dynamics and trusts; its gameplaying; its limitless range. Love is the antidote to all harm; it is the pulsebeat of the human race.
About Tina Turner: As the burning heart of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960's, Tina was the comet that scorched the stage. She had all the swagger of James Brown with a whole new dimension of sensuality to boot. While girl groups played it straight in matching dresses, she kicked in heels and hot pants. And her no-nonsense delivery, almost certainly in retaliation to the abusive Ike, let everybody know who owned the spotlight.
By 1975 she left Ike and found stardom portraying the Acid Queen in Ken Russell's film version of the Who's TOMMY. This was so pivotal she released the "Acid Queen" album, with covers of the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". With patient persistance she finally exploded into deserved superstardom in the 1980's. Without her, there would be no Betty Davis, Millie Jackson, Joyce Kennedy, Brides Of Funkenstein and Parlet, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Madonna, En Vogue, Lil' Kim, Joss Stone, Joi, or Nikka Costa. All hail the queen!
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Tym Stevens
Love and Let Love!
"All You Need Is Love" meant empathy, intimacy, support, selflessness, and spiritual solidarity. These are the tonics to alienation, segregation, hostility, selfishness, and existential emptiness. The expression of love is a sacred act and a spiritual pact. It may be fleeting, maybe only a cherished moment, or perhaps as deep as life is long. But the selfless act of giving of ourselves for another's benefit lifts us into the better angels of our nature. Hate only degrades and destroys. Love nourishes the individual soul and the human species. Without it, we will not survive. Love is love and Hate ain't; it can't be legislated, leveled, or lynched. Let no one put it asunder. This is a tribute to love; it's stirrings; it's courtship; its consumation; its playful dynamics and trusts; its gameplaying; its limitless range. Love is the antidote to all harm; it is the pulsebeat of the human race.
About Tina Turner: As the burning heart of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960's, Tina was the comet that scorched the stage. She had all the swagger of James Brown with a whole new dimension of sensuality to boot. While girl groups played it straight in matching dresses, she kicked in heels and hot pants. And her no-nonsense delivery, almost certainly in retaliation to the abusive Ike, let everybody know who owned the spotlight.
By 1975 she left Ike and found stardom portraying the Acid Queen in Ken Russell's film version of the Who's TOMMY. This was so pivotal she released the "Acid Queen" album, with covers of the Rolling Stones, the Who, and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". With patient persistance she finally exploded into deserved superstardom in the 1980's. Without her, there would be no Betty Davis, Millie Jackson, Joyce Kennedy, Brides Of Funkenstein and Parlet, Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Madonna, En Vogue, Lil' Kim, Joss Stone, Joi, or Nikka Costa. All hail the queen!
(All rights reserved. Fan-made video to promote awareness.)
Tym Stevens
