In “Tina”, Love Has Everything to Do with It.

The Couch Tamale
11 min readApr 13, 2021
From the HBO Max documentary “Tina”

At one point, towards the end of “Tina”, the beautiful and stirring new documentary about Tina Turner, her longtime partner Erwin Bach attempts to describe something ineffable: the depth of love, the charge of love he carries with him from his wife, the superstar who so often was described in concert reviews as “electrifying.”

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