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

Coming up next a story you won’t believe. Talk about an ordeal. Today’s guest, John Parr, has a massive #1 hit in 1985 that is still huge today. It was the theme to the movie St. Elmo's Fire, but the song was actually written about the power to overcome anything and was inspired by a disabled man. It not only hit #1 but was the frontrunner to win the Best Original Song Oscar that year. But then it was pulled from contention on a stupid technicality. But in the end, it raised incredible awareness and millions of dollars for people with spinal injuries. John Parr was at the pinnacle of his career, and then someone in his inner circle betrayed him, and an ongoing litigation kept him from recording music for 18 years! He had to get a regular job to make ends meet for his family and to raise his kids. But there is a happy ending. Let’s do it.

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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 Elmo's 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. Where entertainment was actually focused on motivating and inspiring you. This song was my anthem as a kid, and I was so excited to do this interview.

John parr is an amazing inspiriting 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 Elmo's Fire before he wrote the song…