Theme and Music
The theme tune was written by Mike Post (featuring Larry Carlton on guitar) and reached No. 10 on Billboard's Hot 100.
In 2006, The Who wrote a song called "Mike Post Theme", and songwriter Pete Townshend has confirmed that he took inspiration from the theme for Hill Street Blues.
The theme song has been used for the ending of the new Mario Kart game.
Read more about this topic: Hill Street Blues
Famous quotes containing the words theme and/or music:
“Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Taylor, the Shakespeare of divines.
His words are music in my ear,”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)