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The RIP thread
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I’m of a younger generation to you TM. Caught her second wind as a child of the 80s, so the Simply The Best Era is what is imprinted in my childhood memories as the quintessential Tina Turner. Didn’t really know any different.
I’ve since seen vintage photos of her in the 1960s. And after seeing these, in her time, to me she was indeed a stunningly beautiful woman in the classical sense. Certainly gave me a different perspective, seeing these earlier photos.
16 Early Photos of a Very Young Tina Turner From Between the Late 1950s and 1960s
Music fans everywhere know the name Tina Turner, but this pop sensation was not always the superstar she is today. Tina Turner was born Ann...
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Tina's story is quite incredible. I don't think I was so aware of it until now.
Yeah old Ike was a piece of work. A real sHocking of a bloke.
I can’t locate the article right now but I read somewhere that possibly the most successful advertising campaign in Australian sport nearly sank before it began because the dinosaurs running rugby league clubs at the time didn’t want a black American grandmother promoting the game.
Lucky that saner, more progressive heads won the day
Lucky that saner, more progressive heads won the day
No, wasn’t quite like that Legends. I’ve read a similar article from around 5 years ago.
It was more that people in the NSWRL were simply baffled by the proposal put in front of them.
They just couldn’t piece together a connection in their heads, between an American singer, who probably hadn’t even seen the game, or even knew what it was, and a sport that was an intertwined part of quintessential working class Aussie culture. And without the benefit of hindsight, it would have seemed pretty obscure and far fetched, not to mention expensive and high risk.
What they were missing however, is that those proposing the campaign were trying to balance connection to the traditional audience with attracting a wider audience also. Suffice to say, history tells us they seemed to succeed very much so, in walking that bridge. In fact, later editions of the campaign featured Tina and Barnsy singing the song as a duet. What an emblematic illustration of what they were trying to do.
The campaign was indeed, high risk, high reward, yet visionary. And an interesting irony, that from forging the Rugby League connection, Tina Turner became probably an even bigger star In NSW and QLD than she was in her home market, particularly for the latter years of her career.
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The story I saw said John Quayle had recently revealed the never before revealed behind the scenes story to the ad, indicating the past few months. I did find an article but it was paywalled.
TM,
One of the things that Tina did in the 80s and 90s was represent Hanes and the L’eggs brand of panty hose. She had a 10 year contract and her legs were used in advertising all that time. She had an awesome pair of pegs.
Check this out as proof
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tina+turner+a+L'eggs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-au&client=safari#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:cd89ff7f,vid:gbAX6iKocG8
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History is usually far more nuanced than click bait, sensationalist journalists make it out to be. Sure, there might have been a person or a couple, who’s motives were more sinister. But most around the table may well have been simply baffled, as other behind the scenes accounts from only a couple of years ago have previously stated.
Like I say, without the benefit of hindsight, she would have appeared a pretty obscure choice. Bold, high risk, high reward campaign.
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Qualye's pieces over the last couple of days would suggest he kept it a secret from most of the Board and only towards the end did they catch on to what was happening. Same pieces say Tina was just brilliant to work with, no demands, no airs, and genuinely had a lot of fun filming the ads with the NRL boofheads.
Yeah, I’ve always got the impression (and read accounts from all comers who have been around her) that she was just a lovely, very decent, genuine person. Makes you cringe more when you see some of the *smile* interviewers over the years harping and harping on about Ike in interviews. Trying to manufacture some controversy in one of the most salt of the earth, uncontroversial stars around.
Didn't know about the advertising sponsorship, though it would be an obvious no brainer in Tina's case. Just got through watching a show on Fox last night of her concert in Barcelona. Bloody old boiler musta been around her sixties easy. Mini skirts, pins to die for, dancin, struttin n sassin across the stage bloody woman was full throttle. Stunning performer.
She was.
I watched a show on channel 9 about her rise to fame and the Ike years. What a *smile* scumbag he was
RIP Rale Rasic our 1st football coach into the WC.
RIP Iron Sheik from the heady days of wrestling in the 80s
RIP Iron Sheik from the heady days of wrestling in the 80s
And his partner in crime Nikolai Volkoff died in 2018. Used to love those 2. 2 of the better heels from those days.
I finally got around to watching Tina the doco. Who knew Bucks Fizz recorded “What’s love got to do with it” before Tina?
