When he and Tina took off at last-with "a Fool in Love" in 1960-it was Tina's raucous voice, not his pounding guitar in his own song, that made the difference.

He was there, making a small fortune out of selling on chocolate bars to other inmates, when he and Tina were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

There had been strong female role models in rock before, from Tina Turner to Janis Joplin, but no one had ever combined performance and poetry in such a visceral way.