Tina Turner

Tina Turner was everywhere in 1985. Her 1984 comeback album, Private Dancer, was on its way to selling 15 million copies worldwide and Tina tirelessly wowed audiences throughout Europe and across America on a year-long tour that would have been the death of any hard-living heavy metal band.

In her spare time Turner did the awards-show circuit, picking up an armful of Grammys for What's Love Got To Do With It? and winning the MTV prize for best female video. 

But her most surprising coup of 1985 came in the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome where she effortlessly stole scenes from Mel Gibson in her role of Auntie Entity, the hardened queen of a post-nuclear holocaust community called Bartertown.

She didn't sing a note on camera but Turner's dramatic performance resonated with the kind of determination to survive that marked her post-Ike stardom.