Tina Turner was “ready” to have her skirt torn off by Sir Mick Jagger at Stay Assist.
The late singer famously had the garment ripped off by the Rolling Stones frontman as they carried out ‘It is Solely Rock ‘n’ Roll’ on the charity present in Philadelphia in 1985 however had made positive that her modesty would stay in place throughout the tune.
In her 2018 autobiography ‘Tina Turner: My Love Story’, which is being serialised by the Every day Mail newspaper following her dying this week on the age of 83, she stated: “He regarded me over and I might see a naughty thought forming. ‘Does that skirt come off?’, he requested slyly. ‘What!’ was my startled reply.
“‘I’ll take your skirt off,’ he stated. I requested him why, nevertheless it was too late to speak it by means of.
“Mick had already made up his thoughts to do it. ‘Simply to create one thing,’ he stated.”
Tina continued: “Understandably, I used to be a bit of nervous as a result of I would by no means had my skirt taken off on stage. Fortunately, I used to be ready.
“In these days particularly, you did not simply put on lingerie. I wore fishnet stockings over my underwear, then dancer’s briefs over that – if my skirt got here off, there can be nothing to see besides a dressing up underneath a dressing up. I used to be lined, I reassured myself. And Mick knew I used to be lined. We have been professionals. After we began ‘It is Solely Rock ‘n’ Roll’, he pulled off his shirt, danced round bare-chested, then sashayed off the stage to vary right into a yellow jacket and camouflage pants singing, ‘However I prefer it’, the entire time.
“He got here again, and with out lacking a beat, reached for my waist. I felt – oh my God, I felt him feeling round the place the snap was. I knew it was going to occur.
“I glanced down as a result of I puzzled, how did I have a look at that second?
“When he pulled off my skirt with a flourish, I noticed with reduction that it wasn’t unhealthy.
“Due to the dancer’s briefs holding me in like a girdle, and the fishnet stockings hiding my underwear, the whole lot was in form and in place, like a dancer.”
Tina confessed to having crush on Mick and all the time needed to be on her “guard” round him due to the rocker’s “naughty” antics.
She wrote: “Mick is simply naughty, you understand? The primary time I appeared on stage with him, he tried to press the microphone into my crotch.
“I all the time needed to be on guard with him as a result of I by no means knew what prank was coming subsequent.
“He is like each unhealthy boy you’ve got ever recognized in school.”