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 (book) out of style?" "Moonwalk" debuted at number one on both the British newspaper "The Times" and the "Los Angeles Times" bestseller lists. Reaching number two in its first week on "The New York Times" Best Seller list, "Moonwalk" reached number one the following week. Within a few months of its release, "Moonwalk" had sold 450,000 copies in fourteen countries. Ken Tucker, of "The New York Times", stated that if the book had been written by anyone else, it would be dismissed as "an assiduously unrevealing, frequently tedious document." However, he adds that "these are precisely the qualities that make it