Tina Turner Announces
Millennium Tour Plans
Ticket Sales for the European Shows Have Already Started
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At a press conference in Paris last month Tina Turner has announced a major world tour for June 2000, says it will be her last.  "This will be my final big stadium rock tour. I want to change my working habits... smaller, you know, less is more - that kind of thing," the singer told a Paris press conference.

But Tina Turner made it clear that she wasn't yet considering retirement from the music scene: "I will be out there... I'll go on to do something else... but I don't know when I'm finishing," she added.

Following shows in the U.S. and Canada next spring the Millennium 2000 Twenty Four Seven Tour will visit 17 European cities: Berlin, Brussels, Cardiff, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dublin, Glasgow, Hamburg, London (Wembley), Munich, Oslo, Gothenbourg, Paris, Sheffield and Zurich The European leg of the tour take off in Tina's home town Zurich on June 30. The exact tour dates for the U.S., Canada and Europe will be published soon.

Tickets for the first set of shows in the U.K. and in Germany have already gone one sale.  The singer also made it clear that she was not disturbed by the prospect of turning 60. 

"How does it feel being sixty?

"Do I act like a 60-year-old woman?"  "No, we don't need to act like that anymore. We have a whole new era ahead of us and I think we are given that opportunity to not feel like 60," Turner said.

To date Tina Turner has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide and was recently honored for her lifetime achievement at the Music of Black Origin awards.