Rookie Hit #1 in 1985…Was BANNED From Recording & Worked a Regular Job for 18 Yrs!-Professor of Rock

Coming up… an interview with the mysterious disappearing rocker of the 80s. John Parr had a massive #1 hit in the mid-80s… a song he co-wrote and recorded in less than a day… St Elmos Fire (Man in Motion) was to be the theme to a big movie the Brat Pack 80s coming-of-age film St Elmos Fire. but he actually wrote the song about an inspirational journey that was being forged at the time by a disabled man. The song was going to be a frontrunner for the Oscar that year but it was pulled from contention over its connection to this everyday hero. It ended up helping to raise millions of dollars and awareness for spinal injuries… Then at the height of his career, this rocker was betrayed by someone in his inner circle and litigation stopped him from making music for almost 18 years…during this time he disappeared from the spotlight and worked a regular job to raise his kids. Up next, an interview with this 80s icon.

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We’ve got a great one for you today… From one of the great voices of the mid-80s on our latest edition of Revelations- where featured artists go deep on their greatest songs. Stories you won’t hear anywhere else! We all have those songs from our youth. before the negativity and pretentiousness of the world crept in and made us second-guess ourselves. Those songs that motivated us… took us to a higher level…this is one of those songs. A song where the singer left it all on the field. A vocal extravaganza that took this song straight to #1 in 1985. I’m talking about St Elmos Fire Man in Motion the parentheses anthem from rocker John Parr. Writing with the legendary David Foster.

This song along with Eye of the Tiger, Don’t Stop Believin’, Here I Go Again and a few others made those of us who were lucky to grow up in the 80s feel like we could do anything. It was a different time... a time when music and movies and TV shows weren’t so dark and neurotic. When entertainment was actually focused on motivating and inspiring you. This song was my anthem as a kid and I was so excited for this interview.

John Parr is an amazing inspiring guy. He was making things happen in the 80s with his hit Naughty Naughty, this one, and then many soundtrack albums that followed from the Running Man with Arnold Swartznegger, Three Men and A Baby, and American Anthem but then he disappeared from the music business for nearly 18 years… He could record or make music. so he had to take a different job to support his family… He’ll tell you the whole story next including missing out on an Oscar and what he really wrote this #1 hit about since he actually never saw the movie St Elmos Fire before he wrote the song…

Parr made a new documentary that will be coming out. Look for that. Make sure to Leave us a comment about John Parr and the #1 smash St Elmos Fire Man in Motion. What are your memories of this all-time anthem?

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