The time MTV teamed up with Judas Priest to promote TURBO and give one lucky fan a free motorcycle

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This weekend I postd the link to my video i did on the history of the band Big Wreck, since Rick Beato interviewwed the group’s frontman Ian THornley. In the comments someone wrote “love the channel, but i am not a fan of hearing about canadian bands that I know nothing about. How about a mtv judist Preast motorcycle giveaway.” So let’s talk about the contest, since people love ot hear about the mtv contests.
Formed in the mid 70’s heavy metal outfit Judas Priet would enjoy commercial success in America starting in the early 80’s when their albums started to go platinum. That success carried over to the middle part of the decade. In 1986 Judas Priest would release their tenth studio album titled Turbo on Columbia Records. The album went in a much more commercial direction utilizing synthesizers for the first time.h
. For their tenth record, the band initially envisioned doing a double album using the title twin turbos, with one record being more commercial with the other being harder sounding, but they eventually ditched the idea.
The lyrical content on Turbo was markedly different from previous Judas Priest albums, with more less of an emphasis on scifi and fantasy themes and a bigger focus on relationships;. One could argue it was shaped by what was popular in the music scene at the time. Given MTV’s popularity, it was pretty common place for bands to team up with the network to promote new albums and tours by holding contests . In 1985 MTV would premiere a new program called heavy metal mania, which would be a precursor to headbangers ball. The show would be hosted by Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider. And run until 1986. It would be replaced by headbangers ball the following year. Side note guys, if you’re interested in the history of headbangers ball I’ve done a whole video on the history of the show the link is down below. I’ve also done a whole history on 120 minutes too. Judas Priest teamed up with heavy metal mania to promote Turbo.Here’s the clip for the contest.
So who won the contest. Well, the winner would be a college student from the town of Benton Illinois population 6,000 or so.,. The winner’s was Geoff Furman who actually had a twin brother. Geoff would admit to sending in 20 postcards in for the contest. He would win a trip to LA to see the band in concert and one thing not mentioned in the commercial for the contest was that the winner would get two motorcycles not one. They would get the one of a kind turbo machine with a sidecar that was used in the video for locked in. Geoff would tell a local paper upon winning the prize ‘it isn’t a streetbike. They told me not to try riding it. As for the second motorbike he won, it would be street legal and it was a honda rebel. Geoff was allowed one guest on his trip and he would take along his twin brother Greg. At the time of winning the contest both men were working at different grocery stores and had finished their first year of post-secondary going to rend lake college.
Geoff at the time was planning on joining the air force after graduating from school while his brother greg wanted to become an aeronautical engineer.
Both brothers had never been to california before but upon landing in LA they’d be picked up by a limousine and taken to the hyatt hotel. Upon landing in the city of angels, Greg would tell their hometown paper “Everywhere you look there was a fancy car.” The brothers also appeared on heavy metal mania where Rob Halford introduced them and invited them to attend the band’s show in st. louis where they were given four tickets and four backstage passes. As for what their mother thought about the whole contest and their winnings, she was pretty happy about the whole thing.