Old Time Rock and Roll the 1983 film "Risky Business", starring Tom Cruise. Cruise's character, Joel Goodson, famously lip-syncs and dances in his underwear as this song plays after his parents leave him home alone. In 1986, the song was also featured in the TV series ""ALF"", in a caricature of the before mentioned Tom cruise scene, in which Alf has similarly been left home alone and trashed the house. Activision created a series of "" television commercials directed by Brett Ratner based on the scene, each featuring a different set of celebrities lip-sync to the lyrics while using the new instrument controllers. The first
The Distance (Bob Seger album) The Distance (Bob Seger album) "The Distance" is a 1983 album by Bob Seger & the Bullet Band. The hits are "Even Now, Roll Me Away and Shame on the Moon. The Distance is the twelfth studio album by US-American rock singer Bob Seger. It was released in the final week of 1982 (see 1982 in music). It peaked at #5 on "Billboard"s album chart and sold close to two million copies in the United States. Seger, influenced by the Woody Allen film "Annie Hall" originally intended the album to be built around the theme of relationships but eventually that