Moonwalk (dance) new wave band Talking Heads, authentic street dancers, picked by David Byrne, are featuring, including Stephen "Skeeter Rabbit" Nichols doing the moonwalk. It reached to 20 on the US dance charts. Another early moonwalker was popper and singer Jeffrey Daniel, who moonwalked in a performance of Shalamar's "A Night To Remember" on "Top of the Pops" in the UK in 1982 and was known to perform backslides in public performances (including weekly "Soul Train" episodes) as far back as 1974. Michael Jackson was a fan of Jeffrey Daniel's dancing and would eventually seek him out. Also in 1982, Debbie Allen
Moonwalk One still seeming slow motion, and were sent to an optical house to be blown up to 35mm. There were many "opticals" used in the making of "Moonwalk One". The Earth rising over the moon, or the pan from the earth floating in space to the close surface of the moon, for example. There was no footage shot by the astronauts that was comparable. The "Earth Poem" sequence was composed of Hasselblad stills of the earth taken by astronauts on previous missions, and sent to an optical house to create very slow moves across the surface. The animated explanation for how