Phil Spector and Ike Turner Both Walked Into the Studio Thinking They Were in Charge. Tina Was the

Two of the most controlling men in American music stood on opposite sides of the same recording studio. Both of them had a vision for the song. Both of them were certain they were right. Neither of them was watching Tina Turner closely enough. In this video, we look at the recording of 'River Deep – Mountain High' — the 1966 collaboration between Phil Spector and Ike & Tina Turner — and the moment in the studio when Tina Turner, surrounded by two men who each believed the session was theirs to run, made a quiet decision that determined what the record would actually become. This story explores the collision of two powerful creative forces, the extraordinary vocal performance at the heart of one of soul history's most ambitious recordings, and the woman at the center of it all who understood something neither man had accounted for. Featuring Ike Turner, Tina Turner, and Phil Spector, this is a story about authority, vision, and the particular kind of power that belongs to the person standing at the microphone.