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jrgs I 1 rv i i I TV 1 1 I fcV KccP5 THEM OUT A if. i JW; Misguided. Tour Misguided Tour 1 Tina and Ike Turner Sing and Play Ike and Tina Turner: The Sex Revolution on Stage By MARTIN KASINDORF Newsweek Feature Service Of Newspaper Plant By JOHN KEASLER NOTHING BRINGS the sparkle to the alert eye of a veteran, keenly-observant news hawk more than that challenging moment when he is tapped to escort a group of visitors through the office and explain how a newspaper is produced. People are forever dropping into newspaper offices for a tour and most newspapers turn this over to an expert who knows what he is talking about The head copy boy. Unfortunately, our head copy boy was out the other day and I was chosen to lead just such a tour, of students.

I can truthfully say that many notes were taken on my lecture tour. I can also say truthfully that most of the notes were mine, hurriedly scribbled on the back of an overdue bllL Gee! a Newspaper office has lots going on in it. I wish I knew what it was. Actually, I didn't have much trouble with the department where the writing and editing are done. After all, I've been sitting around here for decades.

"This, the city loom, is the heartbeat of the newspaper," I said to the students, kicking a nearby rewrite man in the shins to arouse him. (Our Fourth Estate image, you know.) "This is where all the human drama and everything gets written about The ones you see slaving over typewriters are reporters and rewritemen and columnists, possibly the most hard-working and dedicated group in America today. The ones you see sitting around making strings of paper clips ate called Do not feed them. Got that straight? O.K., then let us move on." "WHAT ARE those big machines going clackety-click?" a asked. "Where?" "Like the one you're leaning on." "Oh.

These, in the technical phraseology, are called 'teletype machines." News pours in on these machines from all over the world, including Hialeah." "How do they work, exactly?" he asked, "Uh well, as you see, it is quite complicated. News is put in one end somewhere and comes out clackety-clack-clack here. But enough of the miracle of modern communications. The next section is called the 'Art Department "What is the function of the Art Department?" "It keeps the artists out of the poolroom. To your right, now, you will see a large arena I mean, area, called the 'advertising department Advertising is very important to a newspaper as, ah, you can tell when the White Sales are.

Also, ads give us something to break up what would otherwise be a monotonous expanse of news, news, news." IT IS TRULY inspiring to see young people worship at the 1 i of knowledge, although admittedly my font showed a tendency un dry when we got back around the Linotypes. Am I being too teti: al for you? The engraving department was a narrow squeak. I explained liow pictures are engraved by pouring acid on them and followed wit an encore of showing how type is set with molten metal, my pinkie severely. Through the stereotype department I faked it by utilizing an old auctioneer chant I learned from a feature story I did once on tobacco sales. Then we went to see the Giant Presses.

Boy. They ARE whoppers! ,1 never knew but one. editor who really "'Stop the I i I I 1 i I I i i wispy dancing chanteuses called the Ikettes, the latest of a string of 30 recruited from the ranks of shopgirls and beauticians who have tried (without success) to use the Revue as a stepping stone to stardom on their own. They flutter around the stage, singing "Bend over, let me see you shake your tail feathers." Then, after a blackout, Tina struts on stage in a sequined minidress and gold lame shoes 30 years old, mother of four boys, and still, along with Janis Joplm and Aretha Franklin, one of the sexiest dynamos in the world of rock. Launching into her latest hit, "I've Been Loving You Too Long," she grimaces as if in agony, and the sinews of her neck stand out like ropes.

She gives everything she's got, and what she's got her audience wants. All the way through thfe song "Who's Making Love to Your Old Lady While You Are Out Making Love," women down front yell "Right! Right!" and men call out things like, "Watch out, now, your husband's behind you." TINA'S HUSBAND has always been behind her. To a large extent, he has played Pygmalion to her Galatea ever since they met in 1956. He had a band Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm and this farm girl from Ripley, named Ann Bulock, conned her way into being the group's vocalist. His first move was to change her name.

'Ann' was too common," he says, "so I wrote down Tina, Sheila, all those jungle names." He also wrote down some melodies for her and sold a few of them in New York. The first one, "Fool In Love." sold 800,000 copies. Ike refuses to let Tina relax. During the 65-minute Revue, he lurks behind her, goading, correcting, snapping "You're oversinging, come out of it!" or "Change tone" if she stays on one voice level longer than he likes. Tina has complained privately that' Ike "hurts your, feelings on but she knows that his drive Is what keeps them both going.

1969 TINA TURNER on stage is a one-woman sexual revolution. Her musical style may be generally called soul-rock, but her approach is pure animal. With her moans, twists, gyrations and high-decibel voice she transports her audience into paroxysms of delight and sends critics searching for superlatives. "She comes on like a hurricane," wrote one. "She must be the most sensational female performer on stage Her bust-out performance is really like World War III." But for all the surface spontaneity of Tina Turner's performance, it is, in fact, the carefully nurtured product of years of hard work as the distaff half of a quasi-sexual, quasi-religious revival meeting called the Ike and Tina Turner revue.

Tina's mentor and husband is a cool, tough, gaunt musician who in 10 years of shrewd planning and clever marketing has pushed his revue from IS performances a week in tank-town, soul-circuit auditoriums to the thresholds of the really big time. In the process, Ike has dragged himself and Tina from Southern poverty to a $100,000 home in the View Park section of Los Angeles. With 15 albums and 60, singles behind them, they now receive next-to-top dollar in Las Vegas (behind Elvis Presley) and in New York's Madison Square Garden (behind the Rolling Stones). A 10-day stand these days nets the Revue some $10,000. The Ike and i Tina show is sort of honky-tonk gospel, a soul brother's answer to Radio City Music halL It opens with a foot-stomping bang: brassy rhythm and blues belted out byN a seven-piece band.

Then Ike sidles in, hard brown eyes, shiny bangs over his forehead, a droopy moustache creating the image of a black Zapata. In a yellowish green, double-breasted suit he plays the role of emcee and ringmaster, sometimes singing or play-ng his electric guitar, always supervise ng his many 'charges, i -1 m- The first to appear are a trio of sexy, DECEMBER 21, i I 4. 1 Trie esses! The You pressroom foreman replied in boredom; -i-r. We don't start them for1 35 minutes." I PAGE 27.