The song was written back in 1987, and a heavily restructured version of it was eventually recorded and released by Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo in 2018. The first song Macaluso supplied was One Track Mind, which was retitled to Moving Power and selected as Moving Out’s main theme. That’s why Moving Out has been so soul-stirring for me, because John really encouraged me to keep digging deep.” “Very rarely do I get the opportunity to pitch something from the vault. “The Touch, Never Surrender, Thunder in Your Heart they are always the go-to songs ,” says Macaluso.
Macaluso had grown used to being approached for music licensing deals over the years, but his partnership with SMG Studio on the soundtrack for Moving Out presented him with a considerably more collaborative opportunity, one that would ultimately give life to a number of unused tracks that had laid dormant in his archives for decades.
That moment is frozen in time for me.” Never Surrender I remember that moment specifically, sitting in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1986, rushing back to my little apartment in Glendale, California, picking up my old Martin acoustic guitar with my little red cassette machine, the same cassette machine I've had for 36 years, and just writing that song, and calling Stan Bush and having him come over to listen to it. “And I sat on pins and needles, praying that there was not already a song called The Touch or You Got the Touch already. “Lenny is a great guy and we had a lot in common and a lot of mutual respect for what one another was doing.” The Origins of The Touch“I was inspired by the movie Iron Eagle, when Louis Gosset Jr’s character says, ‘Kid, you got the touch,’” remembers Macaluso. After that we just kept talking,” continues Szoke.
“Unfortunately there were multiple rights owners, including the film company, so using the track was not only going to be expensive but also problematic in terms of digital rights management on YouTube,” “Lenny had dealt with other game companies before and started sending us some alternatives and we landed on the track you hear on that trailer. “Ash loved it and reached out to get the rights to use it, and that’s how we got in contact with Lenny,” says Szoke.
But when one of the designers dropped The Touch by Stan Bush into a work-in-progress version of the trailer, everyone at the studio knew they had found the right song for the game. A number of classic eighties songs were used as reference points by the team, including Jump by Van Halen, Weird Science by Oingo Boingo, and The Power of Love by Huey Lewis and the News.
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