Tina Turner's presence in Australia in the 70's led to the Nutbush dance tho callers to Sydney radio yesterday said the moves came from a dance popular in school physical education curriculum in the 60s.

Birdsville's Big Red Bash music festival aims for Nutbush dance record as tribute to Tina Turner Thousands of revellers at one of the world's most remote music festivals on the edge of the Simpson Desert are set to kick up dust in memory of legendary American singer Tina Turner.

Since 2016, the foot of a 40-metre-high sand dune in the Munga-Thirri Simpson Desert, in far western Queensland, has been the dancefloor for annual world record Nutbush City Limits attempts.

As tributes flow for the "Queen of Rock and Roll", who died this week aged 83, those attending the Birdsville Big Red Bash in July have taken on the challenge to break last year's record of 4,084 boot-scooters dancing to the Nutbush at the same time ...

... "She did see it and acknowledge that, which is fantastic, I mean 4,000 people dancing to your song is something quite special," he said ...

If you want to join in, the article tells you how - here's a video tutorial