The band’s keyboardist, Doug Johnson, refused to appear in the song's music video, a sign of protest against Top Gun, a movie he believed glorified war. Giorgio Moroder 's score for this dance fantasy album turned into a blockbuster (over 20 million copies sold worldwide) due to the title track sung by Irene Cara, Michael Sembello 's 'Maniac,' and a bunch of other modern dance tracks. Still, the song was not without controversy. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and later appeared on Loverboy’s 1989 compilation album, Big Ones. Though not quite the worldwide hit that “Take My Breath Away” became, Loverboy’s “Heaven in Your Eyes” was another solid entry on the Top Gun soundtrack. So I sang it from a feeling of sadness and longing, and maybe that’s what resonated." "I’d been so busy with the band, I’d not had a relationship for four years. "I was alone ," the singer recalled to The Guardian. Still, Nunn took pride in the track, believing it struck an emotional chord with listeners. And, dammit, this is not what Berlin’s about.” And now we have to do this every live show. “Here was this song, which was huge, which he felt wasn’t us,” Nunn recalled. The soaring ballad even took home the Oscar for best original song (awarded to cowriters Moroder and Whitlock).ĭespite this success, the song created turmoil within Berlin, specifically with Crawford, who resented the track. “Take My Breath Away” quickly became a worldwide hit, reaching the Top 5 in 16 different countries and becoming the one of the most popular songs of 1986. Watch Kenny Loggins' 'Playing With the Boys' Video
Grabbers 2012 TRUEFRENCH DVDRip XviD-UTT. Flashdance FRENCH DVDRip XviD-NoTag 694.9Mo. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, while “Playing With the Boys” peaked at No. The popular 1980’s dance movie that depicts the life of an exotic dancer with a side job as a welder who true desire is to get into ballet school. Let everybody else fight over the opening credits.”īoth of Loggins' tracks became radio hits, though “Danger Zone” was the more popular of the two. So we said, Okay, let’s just write something really cool for the volleyball scene. “We saw one scene that we figured nobody would write for, and that was the volleyball scene.
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“They decided that they were going to bring in as many pop writers as they could to try to really inject it full of rock 'n' roll,” Loggins later recalled to VH1, explaining that there was fierce competition among artists to land a song in the film. Unlike “Danger Zone,” “Boys” was a Loggins original, penned after Moroder and his team had asked for submissions from a wide range of songwriters. “Playing with the Boys” - an upbeat pop tune, featured in the movie’s infamous volleyball scene - also came courtesy of the singer. Oh, what a feeling - and oh, the legwarmers, the artistic strip-club numbers and the treasure trove of 80s hits, from 'Gloria' to 'Maniac.