Shortly after news of Tina Turner’s death on Wednesday, candles and flowers began piling up outside the estate in Switzerland the rock legend had called home for decades.
Shortly after news of Tina Turner’s death on Wednesday, candles and flowers began piling up outside the estate in Switzerland the rock legend had called home for decades.
A large crowd began gathering outside the cast-iron gate, shrouded in darkness, with fans walking up one by one to lay flowers or set out candles, some flickering through red-tinted glass jars.
«You’re simply the best,» read one of the dozens of messages nestled among the bouquets.
«I am shocked,» Miran Znider, a 48-year-old Slovenian who lives nearby, told AFP, fighting back tears. «I didn’t expect it to happen so early.»
Asked why he had come, Znider said:
He was among many who flocked to the Algonquin chateau in Kusnacht, on Lake Zurich’s exclusive Goldkueste (Golden Coast), where the 83-year-old queen of rock had lived for nearly three decades.
As people clustered together outside its tall gate, flanked by two large, illuminated columns and emblazoned with «Algonquin» in gold letters, Turner’s music sounded from one of the cars parked nearby.
