In 1983, following the success of "Cuts Like A Knife", Bryan Adams and I were approached by film producer Aaron Russo to write a song for the film "Teachers", starring Nick Nolte and Judd Hirsch.

Bryan and I wrote the song "Teacher Teacher" after reading the script . A week later we flew to Los Angeles to view a rough cut of the film . Russo wasn't expecting a song until after we'd seen the rough cut, but Adams and I arrived with a finished demo.

Russo loved "Teacher, Teacher" and asked if we could write one more song for the film. So we sent him "Edge Of A Dream", a song we'd written a year earkier for another film, "Saturday Night Fever II" (the song was rejected by the director, Sylvester Stallone).

Edge Of A Dream was recorded by Joe Cocker and appeared on the "Teachers" soundtrack album.  The song was also included 11 years later on Cocker's 1995 box-set, "Long Voyage Home".