John Parr
John Parr ( born November 18, 1954 in Worksop, Nottinghamshire ) is a British rock musician and songwriter. His greatest achievement was St. Elmo's Fire from the year 1985.
Career
John Parr is from Newcastle, where he worked with two school friends founded the band The Silence at the age of 12 years, with whom he also toured Europe. Later Parr joined a band called Ponders End, albeit in Newcastle (then next to the Dire Straits ) enjoyed a good reputation as a live act, but never made it to a record deal.
1983 Parr received its own record deal and worked with John Wolfe ( the manager of The Who ), and in the U.S. with Meat Loaf for his album Bad Attitude Parr wrote a song.
Naughty Naughty was John Parr's first success, which struck at specialized rock radio stations in the U.S. especially. In 1985 he undertook a tour with his band The Business opened for Toto. At the end of the tour, producer David Foster offered to him to provide the theme song for the film St. Elmo 's Fire. The catchy rock song was a worldwide hit and brought Parr several awards, including a Grammy nomination. To the film American Anthem, he contributed the song Two Hearts, which is also included on Parr's album Running the Endless Mile, which was published in 1986.
St. Elmo 's Fire John Parr, however, should remain the only major success. He wrote Under a Raging Moon for Roger Daltrey and worked as a writer and producer with Marilyn Martin, and again with Meat Loaf ( Rock & Roll Mercenaries ) and for various films; on German film Go Trabi Go he steered Westward Ho at.
For the Pepsi Company and Jack Calmes Satellite TV Corporation, he sang in a lavishly staged and broadcast worldwide show, for the Los Angeles to the sounds of St. Elmo 's Fire once the Olympic flame was lit.