The guy who sang “Ride Like the Wind” used to be a drug dealer. In fact, Cross financed his five-times platinum Grammy-winning self-titled breakthrough through marijuana sales.

When Christopher Cross burst onto the music scene at the end of 1979 with his Grammy-winning self-titled debut album, he seemed like a banker or someone who'd be selling insurance door-to-door.

In a new documentary about yacht rock, Christopher Cross talked about how "Ride Like the Wind" came to be. It happened on a trip from Houston to Austin.