Elizabeth Sheehan

Diamond purveyor, 80's baby - Duran Duran, Robbie and Strictly fan

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@roisinmurphy Just gorgeous

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@mhdksafa Thank you for this.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

Will Stenberg

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@hectorirl @POTUS @lauritablewitt @tommyhectorshow Go on Laurita

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

Thanks @duranduran for spending 339 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to Rio - 2009 Remaster. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/pkGOyHeh59

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@padraig_h Tis younger you’re getting. Happy Birthday 🏌️

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@MaiaDunphy Oh Maia the gaping hole our mothers leave when they’re gone. There’s no one else in the world to take her place. Sending you a big hug. It’s just shite.

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@conorsclips Sending you so much love for Conor’s birthday. You’re amazing.

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@orlatinsley Sending you love and best wishes Orla

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@conorsclips I’m so sorry for your heartbreaking loss

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@JoannaDonnellyL Well done to you for sharing how you felt, such a sad day for many of us. You were brilliant last night. We definitely know it might get cold later in the week.

[Anthony Remedy @anthonyremedy]

These moments are the best ❤️❤️❤️

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@anthonyremedy @Bitedublin Yes! @anthonyremedy that was 10 years ago in your fab restaurant @Bitedublin and it was my husband @stesheehan 40th birthday. Bono, Ali and Guggi were so nice that night @U2 very special day & great photo set up by Bono himself!

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

This is v cute

[Dublin Fire Brigade @DubFireBrigade]

❄ When things are icy...

🐧Walk like a penguin...

🚶🏻‍♂️ Walk with a wide base
🖐🏼Hands out of pockets
👣 Feet pointing outwards
👟Wear footwear with grips

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[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

Thank you Massive Attack for spending 66 minutes with me this year on @Spotify. You are my #1. #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/5kmV8TfODJ

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@IrishMarketers @AIBIreland @DiageoIreland @WilsonHartnell Great line up and discussions on #MIISUSTAINABILITYFORUM The themes of leadership, urgency & understanding consumers are key in tackling climate change

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@RTE2fm That is brilliant!!!

[Elizabeth Sheehan @ebiesheehan]

@nbrez ENT doctor told me to use 2 drops of olive oil. He said we should do that monthly to avoid build up of wax - that’s what’s trapping the water.