Burning Heart

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Burning Heart
Survivor
publication October 1985 (USA)
length 3:51
Genre (s) skirt
Author (s) Jim Peterik , Frankie Sullivan
Producer (s) Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan
Label Scotti Brothers , Epic Records
album Rocky IV (soundtrack)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Burning Heart
  DE 6th 01/13/1986 (17 weeks)
  AT 6th 02/15/1986 (14 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 02/02/1986 (14 weeks)
  UK 5 11/23/1985 (12 weeks)
  US 2 11/02/1985 (22 weeks)

Burning Heart is a 1985 song by Survivor , written by Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan . It is part of the soundtrack to the movie Rocky IV - The Battle of the Century .

history

Burning Heart was published in the United States in October 1985 - later in other countries - and reached number one in the charts in Switzerland and Belgium . In France, the song was awarded the gold record .

The song is 3:51 minutes long and appeared on the Rocky IV soundtrack album. On the B-side of the single is the song Feels Like Love .

The song was particularly inspired by the problem of the Cold War , which becomes clear in passages such as “Is it East versus West?” Or “Can any Nation stand alone?”. So the song fits into the plot of Rocky IV , because here the conflict that divides the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist USA is fought by Rocky and Ivan Drago in the boxing ring. This is clearly shown again by Rocky in the film at the end of the fight when he says in his address after the fight that he would rather have two fight to the death in the boxing ring than if there were thousands out there on the battlefield to do.

After Jimi Jamison , who had sung the song, left the band in 1993, he released the song again in 1999 on his album Empires .

Music video

The majority of the music video shows excerpts from a survivor concert, in between you can also see some scenes from the Rocky IV film.

Cover versions

The title found little interest in cover versions. Only a small part of it was sampled.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ Rocky IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) at Discogs
  3. ↑ Survivor - Burning Heart at Discogs
  4. ↑ Albums Reviews . In: Billboard . November 2, 1985, p.  72 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Daniel S. Papp: Contemporary international relations: frameworks for understanding . Macmillan Publishing, 1988, pp. 15 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Songs About the Cold War From the 80s Inthe80s.com
  7. ^ Dave Thompson: Smoke on the Water: The Deep Purple Story . ECW Press, Toronto , Ontario 2004, ISBN 1-55022-618-5 , pp. 259/260 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Jimi Jamison: Empires at Amazon.com
  9. ↑ Music video in Myvideo.de ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.myvideo.de
  10. ^ Robert L. Savage, Dan D. Nimmo: Politics in familiar contexts: projecting politics through popular media . Ablex Publishing, 1990 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  11. ↑ Burning Heart on Whosampled.com