Spin Magazine

<p><em>Spin</em>’s classic interview with Ike Turner isn’t just full of his pathetic excuses for his abuse of Tina Turner but is also an unflinching portrait of a man consumed by bitterness as Tina’s star rises.</p>

In this 1985 Spin cover story, Madonna opens up about her penniless years, struggle for success, the men she loved, used, and felt passionate about, and why she’d be a nun if she wasn’t a singer.