In stark contrast were scenes of the ominous Mr. In the movie, Rocky Balboa is shown resting on his laurels, living the good life, doing American Express commercials and photo-ops and slacking off his training regimen. Frankie and I are watching this, the punches are being thrown, and we're going, 'Holy crap, this is working like a charm.' We called Stallone and said, 'Why aren't you using that?' He goes, 'Well, we can't get the publishing rights to it.' Frankie and I looked at each other and went, 'Man, this is going to be tough to beat.' We had the spirit of, 'We've got to try to top this.' I started doing that now-famous dead string guitar riff and started slashing those chords to the punches we saw on the screen, and the whole song took shape in the next 3 days." Peterik: " When we got the initial rough cut of the movie, the scene that 'Eye Of The Tiger' appears in was cut to 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen. We attempted to steer clear of the 'Gonna Fly Now' thing." Looking back at age 53, it's hilarious to think I was once part of the cutting edge. To him, it was great, but he wanted something to get to the youth market, the cutting edge. Stallone, in his first conversation to us, he made it real clear he wanted to distance himself from that first song. Says Peterik: "We didn't want to do anything like that. That song, "Gonna Fly Now," was a #1 hit in 1977. The first 2 Rocky movies used a very popular orchestral theme written by Bill Conti. This is Sylvester Stallone.' It was too thick to be really him, but it was him. When I pressed the playback button I heard, "Hey, yo, Jim, that's a nice message you got there.
Says Peterik, "Answering machines were still something of a novelty back then and to see that blinking light was a thrill. Stallone thought the sound, writing style and street appeal could fit in his new movie, so he called Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, who were Survivor's primary songwriters, and left messages on their answering machines. Tony Scotti was the president of Survivor's record label, and he played Sylvester Stallone some tracks from the previous Survivor album, Premonition.
#ROCKY SONG LYRICS EYE OF THE TIGER MOVIE#
Eye of the Tiger is a song by Survivor which was the theme song to Rocky III, which was the biggest movie of 1982.
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