'It was awful. I despised Ike on that level, but I didn’t know how to express myself.'
In the interview, Arnold, now 75, references the assault, stating: “It was awful. I despised Ike on that level, but I didn’t know how to express myself. I was told Tina [Turner] wanted to get rid of me because Ike was after me. If I had run to Tina or called my parents, it would have meant I would have [had] to come home.” At that point, still a teenager, she had already experienced considerable violence at the hands of an abusive husband as well as her father, she said.
Her tenure with the Turners ended when she left the Ikettes at the persuasion of Mick Jagger. She also says she became romantically involved with him and his then-girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull, concluding her thoughts on the relationship by saying, “There was a plantation feel about it, like I was a plaything.” In the interview, she says she had an abortion during the relationship.
The soul singer, a native of South Central Los Angeles, found solo fame in the U.K. with her debut single, the debut recording of Cat Stevens’ “The First Cut is the Deepest,” before he recorded the classic tune himself. It reached No. 18 in England and was the first of her 10 charting singles there. In her native America, she remained lesser known, with none of her singles reaching the charts.
Her memoir ends with her finding success as a member of the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Starlight Express” in 1984. Earlier, she had been among the background singers on the composer’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” album.
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