TINA TURNER – We Don’t Need Another Hero | Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was an American-born and naturalized Swiss singer, dancer, actress, and author. Widely referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer.

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film. It stars Mel Gibson and Tina Turner in a story of a lone roving warrior who is exiled into the desert, and there encounters an isolated child cargo cult, centred on a crashed Boeing 747 and its deceased captain.

Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, the ruthless, determined ruler of Bartertown. Aunty is a glamorous, Amazon-like figure who recognises the strength of character in Max and hopes to exploit his physical power to bring Master under her control. Despite her brutality and Bartertown’s chaos, Aunty is an intelligent, cultured woman, who holds a hope of one day rebuilding society to its former glory. Regarding the character, Miller said: “We needed someone whose vitality and intelligence would make her control over Bartertown credible. She had to be a positive character rather than a conventional evil ‘bad guy.’ We had worked on the script with [Turner] in mind. But we had no idea if she’d be interested.”

Out of the ruins Out from the wreckage Can’t make the same mistake this time We are the children The last generation (the last generation, generation) We are the ones they left behind

And, I wonder when we are ever gonna change, change Living under the fear, ’til nothing else remains

We don’t need another hero We don’t need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome

Looking for something, we can rely on There’s gotta be something better out there Ooh, love and compassion Their day is coming (coming) All else are castles built in the air

And, I wonder when we are ever gonna change, change Living under the fear, ’til nothing else remains

All the children say We don’t need another hero We don’t need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome

So, what do we do with our lives We leave only a mark Will our story shine like a light or end in the dark? Give it all or nothing

We don’t need another hero (hero, hero) We don’t need to know the way home All we want is life beyond Thunderdome

All the children say We don’t need another hero (we don’t need another hero) We don’t need to know the way home, ooh All we want is life beyond Thunderdome