« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: The Navy let Cher perform on ship in ‘89. It’s regretted it ever since  (Read 277 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,067
The Navy let Cher perform on ship in ‘89. It’s regretted it ever since
« on: October 23, 2022, 07:22:49 am »
The Navy let Cher perform on ship in ‘89. It’s regretted it ever since
By Claire Barrett
 Thursday, Oct 20

 
The USS Missouri has borne witness to some of modern military history’s most monumental events, but its role in one affair involving Cher gyrating in a fishnet G-string left the Navy blushing over the “Mighty Mo.”

In 1945, after the mammoth 45,000-ton battleship helped defeat the Axis powers in hallowed places such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and his glum-faced delegation surrendered aboard the ship. In 1950, it was the first American battleship to slice through Korean waters.

And in 1989, the Navy, flush with the notion that a singer, songwriter and actress of Cher’s caliber would aid in recruiting numbers, permitted the singer to film the music video of her latest hit, “If I Could Turn Back Time,” on the storied ship in front of throngs of eager, cheering sailors.

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022/10/20/the-navy-let-cher-perform-on-ship-in-89-its-regretted-it-ever-since/
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline rangerrebew

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 177,067
Re: The Navy let Cher perform on ship in ‘89. It’s regretted it ever since
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2022, 07:23:48 am »
My son was promoted to Lt. j.g. on the bridge of the Missouri. :patriot:
Logged
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 61,137
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: The Navy let Cher perform on ship in ‘89. It’s regretted it ever since
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2022, 09:56:39 am »
Quote
The guns that were once active off the coast of Iwo Jima and Okinawa were suddenly being ridden by a bare-bottomed Goddess of Pop.

The final version of the video (portions of the final video were re shot) had her in dungarees and t-shirt on the guns, not the outfit she did most of the video in.

If the Navy has a problem with wardrobe requirements, they should work that out in advance of the shoot. From the looks on the faces of the guys in the background, they had no problem...
It seems the horror is reserved primarily for the Brass, and not the ratings.
Some things just don't change.
(From an old WWI era song: Would you rather be a colonel with an eagle on your shoulder or a private with a chicken on your knee?)

Despite her politics, I still like the song.
Logged
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »