"We always do it nice and rough"

Rock pioneer Ike Turner, aka Mr. Tina Turner, died yesterday in his San Diego home.

Though Ike apparently influenced a number of current hit makers and won a Grammy in the traditional blues album category this year for "Risin' With the Blues," he will forever be known as that monster that beat the daylights out of Tina Turner. Whether that's the complete truth or not, we'll never know...

There is currently no word on cause of death, but his current wife reported that he had emphysema. Ike was 76 years old.