Australians love Tina Turner. And so they proved it en masse, when nearly 6,000 followers confirmed up at an outback occasion to bop the “Nutbush,” setting a brand new document within the course of.
The Huge Purple Bash in Birdsville, a distant Queensland city 1,000 miles west of the state capital, Brisbane, has raised the document in years previous.
However on this event, simply weeks after Turner’s demise, on the tenth anniversary of the competition, and the fiftieth anniversary of “Nutbush Metropolis Limits,” the previous mark was squashed.
In accordance with the Australian Broadcasting Company, 5,838 dancers did their factor — many carrying colourful outfits for the event. That determine simply eclipses the previous mark of 4,084 individuals, set on the identical web site in 2022, and the 1,719 individuals recorded by Guinness World Information in 2018.
“It’s a army operation making an attempt to get them lined up in rows and dancing for 5 minutes,” says Greg Donovan, founding father of the Huge Purple Bash, held July 4-6.
Helen Taylor, co-founder of the Australian E book of Information, caught all of the motion.
“Everybody was within the spirit of issues immediately. It was the very best I’ve ever seen,” she recounts. “We had individuals on crutches dancing, there was a woman dancing the Nutbush and hula hooping on the identical time.”
The record-setting effort additionally raised greater than A$100,000 for charitable causes.
Australia has a deep, lasting reference to Turner. Her extraordinary solo comeback in 1984 was engineered by Roger Davies, the nice Australian artist supervisor who has guided the careers of Pink, Olivia Newton-John, Janet Jackson, Cher and plenty of others.
The rock icon additionally starred as Auntie Entity in 1985’s Past Thunderdome, the third in George Miller’s Mad Max motion film franchise, and from 1989 to 1995, Turner was the face of the Nationwide Rugby League (then the New South Wales Rugby League or NSWRL). Followers of the game bear in mind Turner as “The Queen of Rugby League.”
Ike & Tina Turner’s recording of “Nutbush Metropolis Limits” (which Tina Turner wrote) was launched in August 1973. It reached No. 22 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 three months later. The rock queen died Might 24, on the age of 83.
