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on that line, 'someone stole my brand new Chevrolet,' this cigarette truck that Eddie Murphy is locked up in the back of, screaming through the streets of Detroit, slams into this Chevrolet. And 'I'm just burning, doing the Neutron Dance,' which to me meant someone could push the button tomorrow and
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According to Willis while working on the lyrics with Sembello she looked through a window and saw someone attempting to break into her car: while running outside to scare off the thief Willis called out to Sembello: "Someone stole my brand new Chevrolet", and the line was included in the song.
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were disinclined to retain the song, instead asking Richard Perry to create a new similarly styled track to score the car chase sequence in the completed film: however, Perry demurred opining that "Neutron Dance" was a "one in a million song." "Neutron Dance" was used prominently in the
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was screening, allowing for the promotion of the movie via many clips from it being displayed in the video. Pinchot himself plays a minor role in the film as "Serge", a salesman in Jenny Summers' art gallery.
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in its initial year of release "Neutron Dance" was issued as a single in November 1984, the major factor in the track's single release being the placement of the song on the soundtrack of the upcoming film
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we could all go up in smoke, so make your change now. On that line, a car explodes. I mean, I couldn't have written a better song for a movie scene if my life depended on it."
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I don't want to take it anymore, I'll just stay here locked behind the door. Just no time to stop and get away, because I work so hard to make it every day.
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Really a lyric about all these things falling apart in your life, and you know what, just get it together and change your life."
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According to Allee Willis, "Neutron Dance" was written in hopes of being placed on the soundtrack of the film
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Allee Willis described the experience of witnessing her composition featured in the film as "mind-boggling
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album rising as high as #6. It was the career zenith of the Pointer Sisters who prior to the success of "
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Willis adds that the lyric theme of "Neutron Dance" was due to "all this stuff going on in my life:
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According to Ruth Pointer, although "Neutron Dance" proved effective when utilized in the
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Concurrent with the single's release, a video for "Neutron Dance" began airing on
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on lead vocal was introduced on the Pointer Sisters' October 1983 album release
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In March 1985 "Neutron Dance" became the fourth Top Ten single issued from the
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film and TV series, as the cinema operator; the setting was a cinema where
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and featuring Ruth Pointer on lead – for the soundtrack of
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Index


Single
the Pointer Sisters
Break Out
B-side
Genre
Dance-pop
Label
Planet
RCA
Songwriter(s)
Allee Willis
Danny Sembello
Producer(s)
Richard Perry
The Pointer Sisters
I'm So Excited
"Neutron Dance"
YouTube
Allee Willis
Danny Sembello
the Pointer Sisters
Break Out
Beverly Hills Cop
Streets of Fire
nuclear holocaust
Cold War
nuclear war
Ruth Pointer
rough cut

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