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Danger Zone - From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack

2002Released
3:35

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"Danger Zone" was featured in the action scenes of the 1986 movie Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer. The film was a blockbuster and generational touchstone, and this song is intertwined with it, even though the movie title never shows up in the lyric. For many, the song still triggers a rush of adrenaline from the opening lines: Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar After the movie came out, the US Navy flying program got a wave of applicants looking to be the next Top Gun.

This was written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, who also wrote "Take My Breath Away" for the movie. A year later, they wrote "Meet Me Half Way," which Loggins recorded for the arm wrestling movie Over The Top.

Loggins was a movie soundtrack mainstay in the '80s, and had a #1 hit with the theme song to the movie Footloose two years earlier. Asked in 2007 about performing these soundtrack songs in concerts, Loggins said of "Danger Zone," "It's a good rock 'n' roll song, but I don't think it holds up that well."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Danger Zone - From "Top Gun" Original Soundtrack.
D♯Key
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
157BPM

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Columbia/Legacy
Originally Released 1971, (P) 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2002 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

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