#Mad max beyond thunderdome series#

The song received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song in 1986 and a 1986 Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.

The alternate 7' instrumental mix remains unreleased on CD.

The vocal 7' mix has since appeared on the hits compilations Simply The Best in 1991 and All the Best in 2004. 'We Don't Need Another Hero' was written and produced by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle (who also wrote ' What's Love Got to Do with It') and appears on the album both as an extended vocal version and an extended instrumental, tracks originally released as the A- and B-sides of the 12' single.

#Mad max beyond thunderdome series#

The single was released the year after Turner's comeback with the Private Dancer album and its series of hit singles. He returned to the show’s 2016 revival as an adviser.In addition to 26 minutes of the original orchestral score composed by Maurice Jarre and performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the album includes Tina Turner's US #2 and UK #3 single ' We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)', which played over the end titles of the film. In 1979, the New South Welshman was approached by British ballet dancer and teacher Peggy van Praagh to direct a revival of the 19th century comic ballet Coppélia for the Australian Ballet Company. Upon his return, he began a pilgrimage to Israel, camping next to the Sea of Galilee. In the mid-1970s, Ogilvie had a spiritual awakening, studied Siddha Yoga and flew to an Indian ashram where he meditated for one month. Ogilvie directed 23 plays and received three Melbourne Theater Critics Awards before transitioning to artistic director of the South Australian Theatre Company. Sumner persuaded him to become associate director of the Melbourne Theater Company. He was reluctant to forgo the acting career but “began to understand and realize that everything that I’d learned, both in music and dance and in the theater, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it.” Upon his return to Australia, he was urged by noted theater directors Walt Cherry and John Sumner to consider directing. While in Europe, he studied mime under French stage coach Jacques Lecoq. “And ever since then as an actor and a director, I think I’ve searched for family.” “I have never forgotten the fact that for me, creativity - in terms of entertainment or performing or whatever - is a family affair, has always been, whether it’s in my family or in the family I found in England,” he said in 2006. Determined to break through as a theater actor, he ended up at a family theatrical company called Jimmy James, where he learned his craft in front of an audience each night. Ogilvie was born a twin to Scottish parents on March 5, 1931, in Goulburn, New South Wales.Īt age 20, he and his mother set sail for England. The Shiralee, Short Changed, The Crossing. There is still a resonance daily in my life from the things he taught me.Īh precious Mr Ogilvie, this is a sad moment indeed. Brilliant man.”Ī gifted teacher in art, theatre and life. Ah precious Mr Ogilvie, this is a sad moment indeed. “There is still a resonance daily in my life from the things he taught me. His other features were Short Changed (1986) and The Place at the Coast (1987).Ĭrowe called Ogilvie in a tweet “a gifted teacher in art, theatre and life” and said it was was “a deep privilege to have known” him. Ogilvie also directed the 1987 miniseries The Shiralee, starring Bryan Brown and Noni Hazlehurst, and 11 episodes of the cop drama Blue Heelers. Thunderdome starred Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Frank Thring and Tina Turner, whose power ballad “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” received both Golden Globe and Grammy nominations. “And it, in a way of all the films, it’s the one I have most affection for of the three films,” Miller said in an oral history. His producing partner Kennedy had died at 33 in a 1983 helicopter crash, and Miller needed to “do something just to get over the shock and grief of all that.”Īs a result, Ogilvie, his colleague and mentor, stepped in as co-director on Beyond Thunderdome. In the 1980s, Miller gave into temptation and began crafting a third film in his acclaimed Mad Max series. Ogilvie also was instrumental in the growing popularity of the miniseries in Australia, directing an episode of the 1983 political drama The Dismissal and the 1984 historical cricket series Bodyline, both produced by Miller and Byron Kennedy. 'Mad Max' Director George Miller Is Way Too Sane to Be a Mad Genius