Editing Ike Turner (section)

=== Influence ===
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| source = — ''[[Little Richard]]'' (1999)<ref>{{Cite book|title=Takin' Back My Name: The Confessions of Ike Turner|last=Ike Turner|first=Nigel Cawthorne|publisher=Virgin Books Limited|year=1999|isbn=978-1-85227-850-2|pages=xi}}</ref>
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Turner was praised by his contemporaries for his influence. [[Johnny Otis]] said, "Ike Turner is a very important man in American music. The texture and flavor of R&B owe a lot to him. He defined how to put the [[Fender Musical Instruments Corporation|Fender]] bass into that music. He was a great innovator."<ref name="Kiersh-08-1985" /> B.B. King was a great admirer of Turner, describing him as "The best bandleader I've ever seen."<ref name="Collis-2003-41">{{harvnb|Collis|2003|p=41}}</ref> King also said, "When they talk about rock 'n roll, I see Ike as one of the founding fathers."<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=June 2, 2001|title=Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm: Here and Now|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2001/BB-2001-06-02.pdf|magazine=Billboard|pages=118}}</ref> Turner was a big influence on Little Richard, who wrote the introduction to Turner's autobiography.<ref name="Jet-2008" /> Little Richard was inspired to play the piano after he heard Turner's piano intro on "Rocket 88", and later used it note for note on "[[Good Golly, Miss Molly]]".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Weinstein|first=Deena|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NNVDBgAAQBAJ&q=rocket+88+good+golly+miss+molly+piano&pg=PA68|title=Rock'n America: A Social and Cultural History|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4426-0015-7|pages=68|language=en}}</ref>{{Sfn|Turner|1999|p=xi}} [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] also said Turner was his first musical influence.<ref>{{Cite web|last=jonbream|date=June 16, 2010|title=Ebony visits Prince at Paisley Park|url=https://www.startribune.com/ebony-visits-prince-at-paisley-park/96452359/|access-date=January 16, 2022|website=Star Tribune}}</ref>

Phil Alexander, editor-in-chief of ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' magazine, referred to Turner as the "cornerstone of modern day rock 'n' roll" and credited his arrangements of blues standards as being an influence on 1960s British Invasion groups: "He proceeded to influence British rockers from the mid-1960s onwards. Without Ike you wouldn't have had the Stones and [[Led Zeppelin|Zeppelin]]. People like that wouldn't have had the source material on which they drew."<ref name="bbc-12-13-2007" />

Speaking on "Rocket 88" being a contender for the first rock 'n' roll record, broadcaster [[Paul Gambaccini]] said:<blockquote>In musical terms [he was] very important. "Rocket 88" is one of the two records that can claim to be the first rock 'n' roll record, the other being "[[The Fat Man (song)|The Fat Man]]" by [[Fats Domino]] from 1949. But "Rocket 88" does have a couple of elements which "The Fat Man" did not. The wailing saxophone and that distorted electric guitar. It was number one in the rhythm and blues chart for five weeks, it is in the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] and it was an indisputable claim to fame for Ike Turner....To critics he will be known as a great founder, unfortunately to the general public he will always be known as a brutal man.<ref name="bbc-12-13-2007" /></blockquote>[[Nigel Cawthorne]]—co-author of Turner's autobiography—said:<blockquote>Although there had been black rock 'n' rollers who had made it big already, they really only played to a white audience. Ike and Tina played to a mixed audience and he deliberately desegregated audiences in the southern states and he wouldn't play to any segregated audiences at all. Because he had such a big band and entourage he desegregated a lot of the hotels because the hotel chains wouldn't want to miss out on the money they would make from him touring the southern states.<ref name="bbc-12-13-2007" /></blockquote>Turner's songs have been [[sampling (music)|sampled]] by [[hip hop]] artists; most notably, Salt-N-Pepa used "I'm Blue" for their 1994 hit "Shoop".<ref name="Strauss-08-22-1996" /> [[Jurassic 5]] used "Getting Nasty" from ''A Black Man's Soul'' on the track "[[Concrete Schoolyard]]" in 1997. [[Main Source]] also sampled "Getting Nasty" on the track "Snake Eyes" as well as Ike & Tina Turner's "[[Bold Soul Sister]]" on "Just Hanging Out"; both featured on their 1991 album ''[[Breaking Atoms]]''. The track "[[A Black Man's Soul|Funky Mule]]", also from ''A Black Man's Soul'', has been sampled extensively by jungle DJs, with the drum introduction being a very popular [[Drum break#Break beat|break]]. It was sampled by producer [[Goldie]] for his 1994 hit "[[Inner City Life]]", in the same year by Krome & Time on "The License", and by Paradox in 2002 on track "Funky Mule".<ref name="whosampled">{{cite web|title=Goldie Inner City Life sample of Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm|url=http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/26580/Goldie-Inner%20City%20Life_Ike%20Turner%20and%20The%20Kings%20of%20Rhythm-Funky%20Mule/|work=whosampled.com|publisher=WhoSampled.com Limited|access-date=October 7, 2011}}</ref>

In 2009, a Nashville-based band, Mr. Groove Band, recorded a tribute album titled ''Rocket 88: Tribute to Ike Turner''. Vocalists on the album include Turner's last wife [[Audrey Madison Turner]] and former Ikette [[Bonnie Bramlett]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/rocket-88-tribute-to-ike-turner-mw0000822562|title=Rocket 88: Tribute to Ike Turner – Mr. Groove Band {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us}}</ref>