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Songwriter: John Parr Jake Holmes

Producer: John Parr

You're lookin’ sharp
You're lookin' good
You’ve come so far
And I just thought you'd like to know
How proud of you we are

Father to son
You're my number one

The best, the best a man can get
The best, the best a man can get

As a tree is trained
So it will grow
Honest and true
We gave you all we had to give
The rest was up to you

Now the race is won
You're the champion

The best, the best a man can get
The best, the best a man can get

When all my memories fade away
I'll remember you this way
So don't you ever change

Best, the best a man can get

John Parr

John Parr (born 18 November 1952) is a Grammy-nominated English musician, best known for his 1985 US #1 single “St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)” and for his 1984 single “Naughty Naughty” (US Rock #1). Parr was nominated for a Grammy award for “St Elmo’s Fire” in 1985.

Parr first entered the music scene when he was 12 years old and formed a band with two fellow schoolmates, which they named The Silence. The band had achieved some success. They eventually became professional and started to tour Europe. He then joined a band named Bitter Suite who were a huge success in the working men’s clubs in Yorkshire, he then formed a “Super Band” with musicians from other working men’s club bands, and named the band Ponders End , a band that set a new precedent for the bands in the north.

Parr secured a publishing deal with Carlin America in 1983 and in the same year Meat Loaf asked him to write some songs for his new album. It led to a fateful meeting with John Wolff, who was tour manager for The Who. Foreseeing the initial demise of The Who, Wolff was looking for a new venture and considered Parr to be a suitable partner. Parr first visited America in 1984 and worked with Meat Loaf on Bad Attitude. Meanwhile, Wolff secured Parr’s solo Atlantic recording deal in New York.

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