Tina Turner Still Has Legs

Do you remember when Tina Turner made a comeback in the 80s? MTV was the venue and her dress was short with beaded fringe ( I think?), her skin glowed and her legs were STUPENDOUS! She was almost 50 years old. Damn, she danced like she was possessed by the Goddess of Sexy Fire Tower Moves as she belted out I Can’t Get No Satisfaction. 

So. Years later, like last Saturday, some friends and I went to the new jazz club, Yoshi’s, in San Francisco. Pete Escoveda and his big band, including his daughter Sheila E, the symbol kicking sexy mama from Prince days, blasted out drum sizzling Latin riffs. It was hard to just sit there tapping toes and drumming fingers on the table top. We got up and danced even though no one else did. The band kept waving their hands upward in the inviting gesture, get off your butts! 

Jordan Scott and I spun and salsa-ed and shimmied and forgot that we were on our own isolated island of dance joy. Endorphins released and, boy, did we laugh and grin in between the spins. 

The show ended and we wandered with the crowds into the lobby. The hair was the first giveaway. The distinctive creamy mocha skin tone. Just to make sure, I stepped back and looked down. Sure enough, there were those chiseled legs in stylish high heels– the same shape as the MTV days. Tina Turner was in the audience and to my inner delight, I knew that she was probably getting an eye full of me on the dance floor at about the same age as she was when I’d watch her with admiration as she strutted about in those super short dresses belting out her song.

What’s the message for today — get up and dance! It is soul satisfaction on a big level. And ya never know who’s watching…