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
Something Like an Autobiography Something Like an Autobiography In 1980, inspired by the memoir of one of his heroes, Jean Renoir, Kurosawa began to publish in serial form his autobiography, entitled "Gama no abura" (Toad Oil; a traditional Japanese ointment for medical purposes). In English translations, the book's subtitle "Something Like an Autobiography" (自伝のようなもの, "Jiden no you na mono") is normally used instead. The book deals with the period from the director's birth to his winning the Golden Lion for "Rashomon" from the Venice Film Festival in 1951; the period from 1951 through 1980 is not covered. The title of the book is a