Ike & Tina Turner Proud Mary Feburary 21, 1971

Whether nice-and-easy or not-so-nice-and-rough, Ike and Tina Turner's live performances of their smash cover of CCR's "Proud Mary" were rarely less than spellbinding. This version of the song on the German TV program Beat-Club sees them in typically dynamite form, with coarsely soulful harmonizing, frenetic brass energy and of course, Tina's inimitable full-body go-go percolating. It's not exactly hard to see why Beyoncé hails her as queen.