Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter who is best known for this power ballad, which was prominently featured in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie. Bush originally penned it for the Sylvester Stallone movie Cobra, however his record label ended up getting the song in Transformers. He told Total Sci-Fi: "I remember initially thinking it was just some cartoon movie, but little did I know it would become such a phenomenon."
The song also featured in the 1997 film Boogie Nights in a scene where Mark Wahlberg's character Dirk Diggler performs the song in an attempt to get his music career going. Unfortunately, Diggler turns out to be a comically bad singer and his musical ambitions come to an end. In real life, Wahlberg had a very successful music career as the rapper Marky Mark.
The track appeared on a 2008 episode of NBC's Chuck, "Chuck Versus Tom Sawyer," during a video game competition to save the world. It also showed up in a 2013 episode of The Goldbergs.
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