[4] He also composed the new-wave and MTV songs "Escalator of Life" and "Change Reaction", which he performed with his band, Robert Hazard and the Heroes, that was popular in the Philadelphia club scene during the 1980s.

[7][8] Robert Hazard was born on August 21, 1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of an opera singer.

Kurt Loder profiled him in a 1981 Rolling Stone article, describing Hazard as a musician "...who started out as a Dylan-era folkie, then spent eight years singing country & western.

"[9] His final recordings were country albums, beginning with The Seventh Lake (2003) and continuing with Blue Mountain (2004).

[2] Hazard died at the age of 59 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on August 5, 2008, following surgery for pancreatic cancer with which he had recently been diagnosed.