Twenty Four Seven Tour

After her record-breaking 1996 world tour, Turner decided to take a longer break between albums and tours. Initially, Turner planned an elaborate co-headlining tour with Elton John. The two performed a duet of Turner's hit "Proud Mary" and John's "The Bitch is Back" on the VH1 special, "Divas Live '99". During rehearsals, Turner felt unease with the music and stopped everyone from playing and then instructed John on how to play the song.

{{quote|text="I made a mistake when I needed to show him how to play 'Proud Mary'. The mistake is you don't show Elton John how to play his piano. He just went into a rage, which he apologized for later. He said it was wrong."|sign=Tina Turner|source=CBS News{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tina-turner-bids-farewell-11-09-2000/|title=Tina Turner Bids Farewell|date=2000-09-21|access-date=2010-09-10|last=Wallace|first=Mike|work=CBS News|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc.}}}}

The tour plans were cancelled and Turner scrapped her initial plans for a greatest hits collection deciding to record her final studio album. Along the way, Turner also performed the Super Bowl XXXIV pre-show ceremonies.

To introduce the tour, Turner stated:

It's a play. It's an act. For the moment, it's a small movie, so to speak. That's why I like all of the stuff and the action and the playoff between me and the girls. It's life on that stage for that two hours.

As mentioned above, the tour initially was set to promote her latest studio album. During promotion, Turner acknowledge the tour as her final one as she enters pseudo-retirement. She comments:{{cite web|url=http://www.livedaily.com/news/1404.html|title=Tina Turner Mapes Second North American Leg|date=July 6, 2000|access-date=September 10, 2010|last=Evans|first=Rob|work=LiveDaily|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211125545/http://livedaily.com/news/1404.html|archive-date=February 11, 2010}}

I've been performing for 44 years; I really should hang up my dancing shoes. I can't keep up with Janet Jackson. I'm not a diva like Diana Ross. I'm rock 'n' roll, but I'm happy I can do it one more time, so people can remember me at my best."

The album played a prominent role in the tour as Turner rehearsed "Whatever You Need", "When the Heartache is Over", "Talk to My Heart", "Falling", "Don't Leave Me This Way" (which was to be included in a ballads medley with "Two People" and two other unknown songs) and "Twenty Four Seven". When Turner decided to do a retrospective of her career, she included her first hit, "A Fool in Love", the first time Turner performed the song live since the 1970s. Turner also rehearsed "Ooh Poo Pah Do" but replaced with "Get Back". Additionally, she included some of her favorite R&B hits including, "Hold On, I'm A Comin'" and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".

Tina had previously planned to have more acoustic styled arrangements for the set list, however as the tour developed this idea was scrapped

{{quote|text="It has been described as a stadium tour in an arena. [it's] hugely complicated and one of the largest arena shows to ever go out and tour back-to-back."|sign=Mark Fisher}}

For her final outing, Turner wanted a stage that was sleek and modern. Her original concepts included the framing of an "apartment building" that had cabins and access ramps. Also included were risers with visible staircases and front drop for the musicians. Fisher, also wanted to create a volcano effect with the staging, have it split into two sets. This inner stage included a video screen and a ramp leading to an upstage platform. There was an additional ramp that lead downstage. The main feature of the stage was the "cantilever arm". A 2' wide, 60' long platform that extended Turner into the audience. Initially, Turner did not want the arm as the same concept was used for her 1990 European tour and she did not want to repeat herself. However, after seeing video animations, Turner wanted the arm included. For stadium shows, a roof for the stage was added along with additional video screens. The arm was extended an additional 20 feet. It took at least seven hours to construct the stage.{{cite web|url=http://livedesignonline.com/mag/show_business_preaching_converted_tina/|title=Preaching to the Converted: Tina Turner Roars Back on Tour|date=July 1, 2000|access-date=September 10, 2010|last=Lampert-Greaux|first=Elllen|work=Live Design|publisher=Penton Media, Inc.}}

The stage was constructed by McLaren Engineering Group.{{cite web|title=Tina Turner 24-7 World Tour Stage|url=https://www.mgmclaren.com/projects/tina-turner-live-in-concert-tour/|access-date=September 10, 2010|work=McLaren Engineering Group}}

• Lionel Richie (North America [Leg 1] & UK){{cite web|url=http://www.nyrock.com/worldbeat/03_2000/032300.asp|title=Lionel Richie Joins Tina Turner Tour|date=March 23, 2000|access-date=September 10, 2010|work=NY Rocks|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218212530/http://nyrock.com/worldbeat/03_2000/032300.asp|archive-date=December 18, 2010}}
• John Fogerty (Europe [select dates]).
• Janice Robinson (North America [Leg 1]){{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20000512/4020414/at-60-tina-turner-is-still-going-strong-on-her-last-arena-tour|title=At 60, Tina Turner is still going strong on her last arena tour|date=May 12, 2000|access-date=September 10, 2010|last=MacDonald|first=Patrick|work=The Seattle Times|publisher=The Seattle Times Company}}
• Joe Cocker (Europe [select dates] & North America [Leg 2])

The following set list is from the July 16 show in London. It is not intended to represent all other dates throughout the tour.{{cite web|title=Tina Turner Concert Setlist|location=Wembley Stadium, London|date=July 16, 2000 |website=Setlist.fm |url=https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tina-turner/2000/wembley-stadium-london-england-1bd65d44.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814180341/https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tina-turner/2000/wembley-stadium-london-england-1bd65d44.html|archive-date=14 August 2022}}

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1. "I Want to Take You Higher"
2. "Absolutely Nothing's Changed"
3. "A Fool in Love"
4. "Acid Queen"
5. "River Deep – Mountain High"
6. "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)"
7. "Better Be Good to Me"
8. "Private Dancer"
9. "Let's Stay Together"
10. "What's Love Got to Do with It"
11. "When the Heartache Is Over"
12. "Baby I'm a Star" (Interlude)
13. "Help!"
14. "Whatever You Need"
15. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" / "Try a Little Tenderness" (with John Miles)
16. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
17. "Addicted to Love"
18. "The Best"
19. "Proud Mary"
20. ;Encore
21. "Nutbush City Limits"
22. "Twenty Four Seven"

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;Notes

• "Hold On, I'm A Comin'" was performed during the first leg in North America.
• "Get Back" was performed from March 23 to June 17, until it was ultimately replaced by "Better Be Good to Me".
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" was performed earlier in the set list, from March 23 to June 17, but was moved later in the set for shows in Europe. It permanently cut from the set list of the second North American leg.
• "Twenty Four Seven" was only performed during the European leg.
• "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was added to the set list on June 30.
• Starting on September 20, a performance of "Hot Legs" by Turner's background singers replaced the "Baby I'm a Star" interlude. Additionally, "Steamy Windows" was added to the set list.

Josh L. Dickey (Spartanburg Herald Journal) praised the tour, stating, "'In fact, the only low points came during Turner's protracted absences for outfit changes, when the backing crew was forced to carry the show. Minus Turner's soaring vocals—which cut sharply though the Target Center's infamously muddy acoustic chamber—the band seemed awkward and cursory.{{cite news|title=Tina Turner turns back the clock in tour's opener|first=Josh L.|last=Dickey|newspaper=Spartanburg Herald Journal|agency=Associated News|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=50MfAAAAIBAJ&dq=tina%20turner%20twenty%20four%20seven%20tour&pg=4329%2C11140540|page=D6}}

Mark Brown (Rocky Mountain News) gave the performance at the Pepsi Center an "A", citing "From minute one, Turner bursts onto the stage with energy and finesse that only the Queen will process. Belting out her memorable hits, Turner proves it doesn't take media trickery to have success. She may be rolling down the river but Turner is creating an untouchable path. "{{cite news|title=Turner, Richie pull no punches in KO performances|date=May 18, 2000|last=Brown|first=Mark|publisher=Denver Newspaper Agency}}

Martine Bury (VIBE) praised Turner's performance at the Allstate Arena, "From her signature rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 'Proud Mary' to the way she heats up dance floors with her most recent single, 'When the Heartache is Over' that sultry, gravelly voice tells ardent stories like no other."{{cite journal|journal=Vibe Magazine|date=June–July 2000|access-date=September 10, 2010|title=Electric Ladyland|last=Bury|first=Martine|volume=8|issue=5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SSgEAAAAMBAJ&q=tina%20turner%20twenty%20four%20seven%20tour&pg=PA98|publisher=Vibe Media Group|page=98}}

{{Main|One Last Time Live in Concert}}

The opening night of the tour at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, aired live on VH1's Opening Night Live on March 23, 2000. The concert at the Sopot Hippodrom aired on TVP1 on August 15, 2000. An additional television broadcast aired on BBC Three. The concert footage was filmed at the Oakland Arena performance on May 8, 2000. The performances filmed at the Wembley Stadium were later used for the DVD release in 2001 and aired on the CBS Network in the United States. The DVD was certified platinum in the US and UK. The concert at Groningen was filmed and broadcast locally. (Footage is available on YouTube and other websites.)

• Production Manager: Jake Berry
• Lighting Designer: Roy Bennett
• Video Director: Christine Strand
• FOH Sound Engineer: Dave Natale
• Lighting Director: Jeff Pavey

;Band

• Drums: Jack Bruno
• Piano: Joel Campbell
• Supporting vocals: Joel Campbell, Ollie Marland, John Miles, James Ralston
• Keyboards: Euge Groove and Ollie Marland
• Saxophone and Percussions: Euge Groove
• Bass guitar: Warren McRae
• Guitar: John Miles and James Ralston
• Harmonica: John Miles
• Backing vocals: Stacey Campbell, Solange Guenier, Lisa Fischer (EU/NA-II), Gloria Reuben (NA-I) and Claire Louise Turton
• Dancers: Stacey Campbell, Solange Guenier, Lisa Fischer (EU/NA-II), Gloria Reuben (NA-I) and Claire Louise Turton, Ivona Brnelić

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• [https://www.tina-turner.nl/twentyfourseventour.php Tina Turner | Twenty Four Seven Tour 2000]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120911015954/http://www.stufish.com/tina-turner/24-seven/illustrations.html Stage Design illustrations] (archived)

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