TINA TOURER

AT 7.30am the door swung open and there was Tina Turner beaming in her white dressing gown.

- LYDIA VELJANOVSKI

She welcomed photographer Duncan Raban into her room at the Hyde Park Hotel in London and offered him a croissant before sitting down for breakfast at a table at the end of her bed.

"Within five minutes of meeting her I was taking photos," says Duncan of that day in 1996.

After an earlier chance meeting with her manager at a party he sneaked into - Duncan was given unprecedented access to the star.

He would spend the day snapping her every move.

Duncan says: "She asked me about me and was really friendly, but said 'Look, we can't hang about too much, we're going to Paris." After take-off from Heathrow, Tina laughed at Duncan's jokes, then fell asleep a moment he immortalised in a photograph.