September 14th, 2023 10:42 am
Tina Turner rocked rugby league in the 1990s and the NRL grand final will go retro in 2023 with a musical tribute to the late superstar set to headline the pre-show entertainment. The NRL family felt the passing of Turner in May as much as anyone in the world given the rock icon’s lasting impact on the sport through arguably one of the greatest marketing campaigns in Australian sport, rugby league‘s “Simply the Best” campaign in 1990.
Turner died in May at the age of 83 after a long illness and on grand final day the cast of Tina - The Tina Turner musical, which is playing in Sydney, will sing some of her greatest hits before the match. “Thirty years on, Tina Turner’s 1993 performance remains one of the great Grand Final moments,” NRL CEO Andrew Abdo said: