John. Parr biography in brief.

Grammy nominated singer songwriter John Parr has had two U.S. number one hits "Naughty Naughty" and "St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)". He has written and performed title tracks and music for 15 Hollywood movies including "Three Men and a Baby", Schwarzenegger’s "The Running Man", “Near Dark". The Oscar winning “Spider-Man into the Spiderverse” and “Deadpool” and has sold over 10,000,000 albums worldwide.

As a songwriter, John has written for Tom Jones, Meatloaf, The Monkees, and the Who’s Roger Daltrey and penned the Gillette anthem “The Best a Man Can Get”.

Throughout his career, John has worked with many icons of his generation… Tina Turner, The Bee Gees, Celine Dion, Phil Collins, Toto, Heart, Bon Jovi, Yungblud, Def Leopard, Bryan Adams, Journey, Foreigner, The Beach Boys, Jeff Beck, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore John Travolta, and Michael J Fox to name just a few.

As a film maker John wrote and produced “Road to Damascus” with his then business partner, two time Oscar winner, Chris Munro. Their film came 7th at the academy awards for best live action short film.

John's recent album "The Mission" was inspired by the sacrifices of our service men and women and their families with all proceeds going to military charities to aid their rehabilitation as they make the difficult transition back into civilian life.

John is an Ambassador for the USO of America, USA Cares, and Military Families and has worked extensively with Help For Heroes and UNICEF.

On the campaign to raise awareness for the military cause, John and his production manager Hedley Taylor travelled 35,000 miles by road in the first 7 weeks of an 18 month tour of America.

"St Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" was written by John and David Foster as an anthem for wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen. Rick had been recently disabled and during his recovery dreamed of wheeling his chair around the globe to raise funds and awareness for spinal research.

His incredible “Man in Motion” journey began in May 1985, wheeling 50 miles a day for two years two months, and two days…. 25,000 miles circumnavigating the globe.

Well, the rest is history…. Rick’s dream finally became a reality and his epic journey had raised $275,000,000 for spinal research and built I cord, the world’s leading spinal research facility, where a few lucky ones with the same injuries suffered by Rick were able to walk again.

In 1985 there was little internet and no social media/facebook etc, so Rick had very little publicity. At the outset of his journey, three men and a dog waved him off from a rainy shopping mall car park in Vancouver. On his return, a million people lined the streets, brass bands playing his song and everyone singing “Gonna be a man in motion” as he wheeled by. During that journey Rick crossed, desert and mountain ranges, even The Great Wall of China …where a million Chinese lined his route clapping and singing his song.