1979 November - Chain Reaction films "Xanadu"
This is the first movie to feature the dance style of popping and locking
separately in a major motion picture.
Choreographer Kenny Ortega saw the dance group Chain Reaction
at the Sherman Square Roller Rink in Reseda Ca. and new that he
had to have them in the movie. By the time this movie went into production
Chain Reaction were a Locking and Popping group.

Release date(s) August 8, 1980
Running time 93 min.
Distributed by Universal Pictures

1980 HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS (TV Special)
w-OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN & CHAIN REACTION DANCE GROUP
This followed the movie Xanadu and this would be the only other performance
as Chain Reaction. This a rare clip showing Chain Reaction as Limo drivers
and Cool Pockets as a bell boy.

1980 March 23 Sunday - Chain Reaction tapes Olivia Newton John's T.V. Special in Century City Ca.

1980 April 14 Olivia Newton John's T.V. Special airs.
Initial broadcaster: ABC Country of production: US Duration: 50 mins Type: TV Special

Rod Stewart - "Young Turks"
The first music video to have the dance POPPING in it on MTV.

Album Release: November 1981
Album: Tonight I'm Yours
Single Release: "Young Turks"

Top chart positions: #11 (UK), #5 (US)
This song has been featured in the fictional radio station K-DST in the video
game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
In English slang, a "Young Turk" was a rebellious kind of teenager who
would go against the grain.

Kenny Ortega was the choreographer for this video. He had called me the
day before and asked me to do it. So that night I was in my
neighbor hood of Reseda Ca. at the local restaurant parking lot standing
on a wall practicing my popping with a silhouette of my self on the wall from
the parking lot light. This just happened to be a fluke luck out for me because
when I got to the set Kenny asked me if I could stand on a train open box car.
I said yes because I had practiced for a couple of hours the night before practicing
allot of moves on a small brick wall. This turned out to be the best thing for me.
They put me in the band shot through the end of the video.
Plus I had my own spot in the alley scene. This would be the first time that the
dance Popping and Arm Waves would be scene on MTV in a music video.

1981 DEVO "Were Through Being Cool"
Filmed in L.A.
Choreographer: Kenny Ortega
T-Bopper helped choreograph me on the set.

This turned out to be a great project for me.
I was put as the lead character of the video.
This was a fun project to do. It didn't have anything to do with
Popping or Locking but at that time you made it work with what you have.

Pointer Sisters "I'm So Excited" Featuring: Chain Reaction
Release Date: 1982

Chain Reaction was hired by Kenny Ortega
to bring that street element to the video project.
Using ground popping moves from Chain Reaction Popping style
this added a great visual to the dance number on stage.
Cool Pockets solo's Chain Reaction locking style around while Duece and T-Bopper
use popping and locking moves to solo.

August 29 1982 T-Bopper, Cool Pockets, and Duece
rehearsed for the video.
Filmed Sept. 14, 1982
T-Bopper and Cool Pockets choreographed the dance number on the
stage with popping steps and contemporary steps of that era.

Hershey's commercial 1983 filmed in N.Y.C.
T-Bopper was hired as choreographer and Cool Pockets as a street dancer
in this segment. T-Bopper and Cool Pockets were hired and flown out to N.Y.C.
to choreograph and dance in the Hershey's comercial.
Hershey's wouldn't pay for more L.A. dancers to go to New York to dance so
T-Bopper had to audition New York street dancers. The level of the dancers
at this time in New York were no where near the street dancing ability of the
california dancers and it took longer than normal to get the dancers up to speed.
The segment became real limited with the popping and locking due to the
limitations of the New York dancers but In the end the commercial turned out o.k.

COOLPOCKETS dances far left.
(as scene in the image of the 4 dancers)

1984 MICHEAL JACKSON "THRILLER"
Release date(s) December 2, 1983 Distributed by Sony Records
Running time 13:43





1983 October 7 Friday - On 19th Birthday Paul
auditioned for Michael Jackson at
Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio in
North Hollywood for the "Thriller" video.

Filmed Oct. 13, 1983 and was filmed out in
Los Angeles late hours of 7pm to 3am
I was hired by Michael Jackson himself after auditioning in
front of him and Micheal Peters at the Debbie Reynolds
dance studio in North Hollywood.
I was hired as a popper for the featured specialty
street dance monster segment.


COOLPOCKETS also made it on to the front cover of Thriller.
He is scene right in front bottom right looking up at Michael next to his red jacket.
Opposite the blue head zombie.

Filmed December 5, 1989 at the Sherman Square Roller Rink
in downtown Reseda, Ca.
Cool Pockets and T-Bopper were hired by the group themselves to
bring that original element and legitimacy of having hardcore street dancers
in there video.
COOLPOCKETS IN BLUE / T-BOPPER IN RED


1999 January 12 - Release Date: "Sugar Ray" music video "Every Morning"
Release Date: January 12, 1999 (CD, Cassette, LP) Label: ATLANTIC/LAVA #83151-2 (CD) #83151-4 (Cassette)