Prepare Yourself: 'Twas Cocaine That Killed Ike Turner
Remember last month, when Ike Turner died? He was vetted at his funeral as a saint by such trustworthy luminaries as Little Richard and Phil "I have an excellent track record regarding violence and women" Spector.
Indeed, Spector claimed the late convict had been "demonized and vilified" by Tina and her press, her autobiography and the "piece of trash movie" made from it. Oprah and Whoopi Goldberg (Whoopi? Really?) also caught flack for daring to call a wife-beating drug addict a wife-beating drug addict.
Ike Turner Jr. had even more perfectly reasonable things to say about his father: "He made billions and billions and billions of people happy. He had the best life."
Well. McDonalds beware.
I'm sure that in a few hundred thousand years, when there will actually have been billions and billions and billions of people, that statement will be rigorously tested.
It's a sad moment to ruin billions of misconceptions that Ike Turner was a cuddly, friendly, wonderful fella: a fella who died at age 76 from a cocaine overdose, according to the recently-released coroner's statement. It's things like this that made the Scientologists burn L. Ron's autopsy report.
Medical examiner says Ike Turner died of cocaine overdose [CNN]
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Posted to WTF? on 17 January 2008
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Other stuff like this: cocaine overdose, ike turner, misogyny courtesy of phil spector, oprah, tina turner, whoopi
I envision Ike at 76, sitting behind a large wooden desk, slumped over, face down in a pile of blow.
WIN.