Living Like a Rock



"Living Like a Rock" is a parody song composed by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight is based on a performed by the late James Brown, "Living in America," which is performed by Dima Bilan.

The song was prominently featured in the chapter "The Fighting Tennelli." In the chapter, during Ivan Drago's dream sequence where a SovietMania main event is held in the Vladimir Lenin Memorial Coliseum, Dima sings the song before Arnold Perlstein (as Captain Rock Man) enters the wrestling ring before he would fight Ralphie Tennelli (as Weatherman), along with Carlos Ramon (as Boy H2O), Keesha Franklin (as Scarlet Scorch), Wanda Li, Dorothy Ann Rourke (both as the Tectonic Duo) and Jyoti Kaur (as Mighty Inferno), in reference to the character's rock-interesting image, just before the national anthem of the USRAC is played by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Johann Strauss Orchestra, the One Voice Children's Choir and the Alexandrov Ensemble, as composed by Maximilian Bazarov, and ring announcer and color commentator Elena Vasilieva is announcing the start of the wrestling match, just as the following contest would be a hardcore wrestling match, which play-by-play announcer Andriyan Averyanov called it a "blazing stony song."

This song describes various kinds of rocks where originally listed several American cities and has references of what rocks are used and what does the rock cycle do to most rocks.

This song's live performance is a reference of the original, as performed by James Brown, before Apollo Creed could enter the boxing ring to fight Ivan Drago in a gruesome exhibition match in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, where he died by Drago's knockout, as seen on Rocky IV.