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"Danger Zone" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins in 1986, with music composed by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics written by Tom Whitlock. The song was one of the hit singles from the soundtrack to the 1986 American film Top Gun. It was the best-selling soundtrack of 1986 and one of the best-selling of all time.
An edited version of the song without the electric guitar is played in the opening sequence set aboard the aircraft carrier deck during launch preparations - the music is set so that after the F-14 Tomcat's engines are on full afterburner and the aircraft subsequently launches from the catapult, it immediately changes to "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins.
Eventually, the film's producers agreed that "Danger Zone" would be recorded and performed by Kenny Loggins. [9] Members of Toto also wrote and intended to perform a song called "Only You" that would have been used as the film's love theme instead of "Take My Breath Away", but legal conflicts prevented doing so. [9]
Kenny Loggins's "Danger Zone" was one of the hits from the original "Top Gun" soundtrack.
Cinematographer Claudio Miranda had an inkling “Top Gun: Maverick” might perform well at the box office opening weekend after he and director Joseph Kosinski boarded a plane and half the ...
[15] [16] Musician Kenny Loggins has confirmed that his song "Danger Zone", which was used in the first film, will be featured in the sequel. [5] [17] "Great Balls of Fire", another song from the first film performed by Jerry Lee Lewis, was also featured in the sequel. [18] The song is performed by Miles Teller, who plays Lt. Bradley "Rooster ...
In Vita Maria Drygas’ doc “Danger Zone,” war is for sale. And there are people who can afford it. “The very idea of ‘war tourism’ was shocking to me. Armed conflict is not a stage: you ...
Whitlock and Moroder co-wrote five songs for Top Gun including "Take My Breath Away" and the Kenny Loggins hit "Danger Zone". ASCAP shows 113 songs registered, performed by artists such as Berlin, Bonnie Tyler, Jennifer Rush, Michael McDonald, Ray Charles, Graham Nash, Falco, Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle.