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"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1985-09-07, 1985-09-14
genre: rock, ballad
artist: John Parr
album: St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack
writers: David Foster, John Parr
producers: David Foster
label:
formats: 7"

"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" is a song recorded by John Parr. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on 7 September 1985 and peaked at number six in the UK, Parr's home country.

The song was originally written by David Foster and John Parr for the Canadian athlete Rick Hansen, who at the time was going around the world in his wheelchair to raise awareness for spinal cord injuries. His journey was called the "Man in Motion Tour." The song was used as the theme song for the film St. Elmo's Fireand became a number-one hit for John Parr around the world and provided many awards and a Grammy nomination. Several members of Toto appear on the record. Strangely, this hit song did notalso appear on a John Parr album.

The song is briefly heard in an episode of The Simpsons, "Sideshow Bob Roberts"; it is supposedly a favorite song of Lisa Simpson.

The line "Gonna be your man in motion" is repeated by Jason Sklar in an episode of Cheap Seats.

It was featured heavily in the 2007 movie The Brothers Solomon.

The song is briefly heard in an episode of The Facts Of Life.

The music video features all seven of the main cast of the film St. Elmo's Firelooking sadly through the foggy windows of a run-down and fire-damaged version of the St. Elmo's Bar set. The Canadian version of the video intersperses images of Hansen's trek.

It was remade by REO Speedwagon in 1989. REO Speedwagon's guitarist, Dave Amato, re-created the song on his solo album, Still Got It, which was released in 1995.

The Ventures performed an instrumental cover version of the song on their 2006 album, Major Motion Picture.

It was remixed by Tommyknockers in May 2006 with the title "New Horizon", which hit #43 in Britain, but failed to chart in the United States.

2-4GROOVES worked a version of the song in 2006 that was heavily remixed. It was titled "Writing on the Wall".