Emmerdale has paid tribute to Queen Of Rock ‘n’ Roll Tina Turner (Picture: Getty / ITV)
Emmerdale has paid tribute to Tina Turner just a few months after her death, celebrating her greatest hits in a very special way.
Tina, one of the most celebrated recording artists of all-time, died at the age of 83 back in May.
News of her passing rocked the world, with celebrities paying tribute to the singer, who is fondly remembered for her hits including What’s Love Got To Do With It and The Best.
Emmerdale has now followed suit, honouring Tina in the most fitting of ways, with a number of its most famous characters dancing along to her most iconic tracks.
Thursday’s (July 20) edition of the ITV soap saw Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) and Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson), who are due to get wed next week, enjoying their respective hen and stag dos.
The hen do, which took place in the salon, saw bride-to-be Laurel playing a game involving a cardboard cut out of a muscly man with Jai’s head pinned on it before joining her friends for a dance, at which point Tina’s signature track The Best, which shot to the top of the charts upon its release in 1989, could be heard on the radio.
Laurel and Jai’s stag do and Arthur’s heartbreak following Marshall’s exit both proved to be the perfect opportunity for Emmerdale to honour the late great Tina Turner (Picture: ITV)
The stag do, meanwhile, got underway over at the Woolpack, with subsequent scenes seeing What’s Love Got To Do With It playing, just moments after Arthur (Alfie Clarke) had hit heart broken by boyfriend Marshall Hamston (Max Fletcher), who dumped him and left the village.
How apt.
What’s Love Got To Do With it, which was Tina’s only US number one, won three Grammys and featured on her record-breaking 1984 studio album Private Dancer, which shot to the top of the charts and propelled the We Don’t Need Another Hero hitmaker into super stardom at the age of 45, seeing her stage what is often described as the greatest comeback in music history.
She was, after all, simply the best.
Tina Turner died at at the age of 83 (Picture: Getty)
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But it wasn’t just What’s Love Got To Do With It and The Best that featured in Emmerdale as, much like the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s concerts, the outing of the serial drama concluded with her rendition of Proud Mary.
The song, originally recorded by Creedance Clearwater Revival, was popularised by Turner, who originally featured on a cover of the track with ex-husband Ike, before re-recording it herself in the nineties, making it arguably her most renowned track.
Tina launched one of the greatest music comebacks of all-time during the mid 80s, with her Private Dancer album, featuring No.1 track What’s Love Got To Do With It, propelling her to superstardom (Picture: Getty Images)
It’s inclusion in Emmerdale accompanied a pub brawl as Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) unleashed his fury on Caleb Milligan (William Ash), who is considering going into business with Tracy Metcalfe (Amy Walsh).
What a fitting tribute.
Interestingly, this isn’t the first time that Tina Turner and Emmerdale have collided, as the When The Heartache Is Over hitmaker’s final studio album Twenty Four Seven, released in 1999, featured a song entitled Don’t Leave Me This Way.
The track in question was previously released by Malandra Burrows, who played Kathy Glover on the ITV soap for 16 years.
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She was, after all, simply the best.
