There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I never beat her.
-Ike Turner
Ike Turner died yesterday and it got me thinking. How do you separate the bad from the good in people? Turner was a Rock and Roll legend, a drug addict, an alcoholic, a womanizer, a man who abused his wife. And, as the above quote shows, totally clueless.
New York Times obituary here.
New York Times article from 2001, Has Ike Turner Moved Beyond His Past? Yes and No.
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