The Top Gun soundtrack, which is one of the best-selling movie soundtracks of all time, also features Danger Zone by American musician Kenny Loggins, which is song #182 on this list of THE TOP 500 POP SONGS OF THE 1980S. Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry, which features films that are “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
(Watch the scene from the film here.) Top Gun has sustained in popularity, and is still one of Tom Cruise’s most popular and highest-grossing films. In fact, the reason the actors are shown in silhouette in the sex scene is because by then, Kelly McGillis had dyed her hair for another role. This scene was not in the original cut of the film, but because test audiences wanted some sex, re-shoots were done, and the scene was added. In the film, Take My Breath Away plays during a steamy love scene between Tom Cruise and American actress Kelly McGillis. The propaganda was very effective, as evidenced by the major increase in military enlistment following the film’s release.
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The Navy got full script approval in exchange for permission to feature the Navy’s aircraft, ships, and bases in the movie. The producers made Top Gun with the cooperation of the U.S. If the movie seems like military recruitment propaganda to you, that’s because it is. Navy’s Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. Take My Breath Away is the love theme from the highest-grossing film of 1986, Top Gun, which stars American actor Tom Cruise as a naval aviator who trains at the U.S. It’s really cool to have a song like that. They came at a time when I needed them, and I played them over and over. If I get to meet them after the show, they want to tell me their story how Take My Breath Away was the soundtrack of something that mattered to them-their first kiss, the first record they bought, their first baby-it’s in their DNA. In 2016, Terri Nunn told, “People just have history with that song. It was a hit in Australia, Sweden, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, France, Finland, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, and West Germany. Billboard Top 40 in 1986, and also hit #1 in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Take My Breath Away peaked at #1 on the U.S. I was singing about the yearning of finding someone who would take my breath away,” she told Deseret News in 2004. That’s where I was coming from when I recorded the song. I was looking for meaning in my life, and I felt like a failure because I had no personal relationship. I was alone, sad, and I was going through some personal crises. There were no prospects for a relationship. If this dreamy love song by new wave/electropop band Berlin sounds morose to you, that’s because lead singer Terri Nunn was feeling gloomy when she recorded it: “I had no love life at the time.
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