In 1966, the document producer Phil Spector, after listening to the Ike and Tina Turner Revue at the Galaxy Club in Los Angeles, supplied $20,000 to provide their subsequent music, provided that Mr. Turner avoid the studio. The consequence, “River Deep, Mountain High,” is commonly thought to be the high-water mark of Mr. Spector’s patented “wall of sound.” It failed within the United States, barely reaching the Top 100, but it surely was a giant hit in Britain, the place it marked the start of a second profession for Ms. Turner.

“I loved that song,” she wrote in her 1986 memoir. “Because for the first time in my life, it wasn’t just R&B — it had structure, it had a melody.” She added: “I was a singer, and I knew I could do other things; I just never got the opportunity. ‘River Deep’ showed people what I had in me.”

After she walked out on her marriage, encumbered with debt, Ms. Turner struggled to construct a solo profession, showing in ill-conceived cabaret acts, earlier than signing with Roger Davies, the supervisor of Olivia Newton-John, in 1979. Guided by Mr. Davies, she returned to the gritty, hard-rocking type that had made her a crossover star and would propel her by the approaching a long time as one of probably the most sturdy performers on the live performance stage.

Her fellow artists took discover. In 1982, Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh, of the band and manufacturing firm often called the British Electric Foundation, recruited her to document the Temptations’ 1970 hit “Ball of Confusion” for an album of soul and rock covers backed by synthesizers. Its success led to a second collaboration, a remake of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” A shock hit within the United States and Britain, it was the turning level that led to “Private Dancer.”

Ms. Turner adopted the runaway success of “Private Dancer” with two extra hit albums: “Break Every Rule” (1986) and “Foreign Affair” (1989), which contained the hit single “The Best.”

She made an affect onscreen as effectively. Ten years after she solidified her persona as a rock ’n’ curler with a riveting efficiency because the Acid Queen in Ken Russell’s movie model of “Tommy,” the Who’s rock opera, she drew reward for her efficiency as Aunty Entity, the iron-fisted ruler of postapocalyptic Bartertown, in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in 1985.