Beccy Cole To Commemorate 20 Years Of 'Poster Girl' With Special Release

Beccy Cole is celebrating 20 years of one of her most beloved songs, Poster Girl, with a special release.

One of the definitive tracks of Cole’s career, ABC Music will unveil a special release of the single on Friday, 18 April. You can pre-save the release here.

Poster Girl was originally released in 2005 and reached #1 on the Australian Top 30 country singles chart. Taken from the album Feel This Free, the track won three Golden Guitar Awards for Song of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, and Single of the Year. Cole went on to perform Poster Girl at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on ANZAC Day in 2007 to an enormous audience of 100,000 people.

Poster Girl is Cole’s song for Australia’s troops and their families. She wrote it after travelling to Iraq and the Middle East to host performances for the Australian Defence Force. Upon her return, Cole received a letter that left her shaken. A fan of Cole objected to her performing for the army and believed that those performances amounted to her supporting the war.

“To be accused of supporting some sort of ridiculous war on terror – which was not what I was doing at all – hurt,” Cole said.

She explained further, “I was incredibly inspired by the whole experience of going over to the Middle East to entertain the Aussie troops but also getting to know them and understanding what they’re all about. I was like a proud mother hen over there, so I really did want to come back and sing their praises. I wanted to write a song, but I didn’t know what angle. That’s when I received the criticism.

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“You can support the troops without supporting the war. You can recognise that they do an amazing job, that they put their lives on the line and put themselves in danger because we need a Defence Force. Wonderful, wonderful people.”

She added, “Poster Girl is my most requested song, and I still feel its relevance each time I sing it. I have many returned servicewomen and men telling me how much it means to them, and I wanted to take the opportunity to refresh the statement.

“The song was about the troops, gratitude for their service and a tribute and recognition to their families as well. I had the idea to rerecord the song as I was singing it at the Gympie Muster in 2024 with thousands of phone lights swaying in front of me; it was a very special moment!”

Cole is touring across Australia from June into October. You can find the tour dates below.