Take My Breath Away
| Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun) |
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| Berlin | |
| publication | June 15, 1986 |
| length | 4:13 |
| Genre (s) | Synth pop |
| text | Tom Whitlock |
| music | Giorgio Moroder |
| Label | Columbia Records , Geffen Records |
| album | Top gun |
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Take My Breath Away is a song by the Californian pop band Berlin from 1986, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock . The play appeared as the Love Theme on the soundtrack for Top Gun and received both an Oscar for best song and a Golden Globe in the same category in 1987 .
Spread and Success
Take My Breath Away was released worldwide as a split single in June 1986 with B-side Radar Radio (also written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, but sung by Giorgio Moroder and Joe Pizzulo) . It stayed number one in the US for a week and number one in the UK for four weeks. In Germany the song reached number three for one month, in Austria number four and in Switzerland number two for 14 weeks each.
The song was also included on the album Count Three and Pray (1986) and, due to its success, also appeared on later compilations: Best of Berlin (1979–1988) , Master Series , Greatest Remixes (contains a remix version of the song by The Mission ), Live: Scared & Profane and Metro Greatest Hits .
The song was republished in October 1990 on the occasion of the first broadcast of Top Gun on the British television channel ITV . Previously it was used in a 1988 promotional film for the Peugeot 405 . When it was re-released, the song landed at number three in the UK.
Music video
The music video was recorded with the participation of the band members at Mojave Air & Space Port in California and combined with scenes from the film Top Gun , which show the first rendezvous between the two main characters Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis . Singer Terri Nunn walks around an airplane graveyard on a windy night in a tattered and oil-stained blue jumpsuit . John Crawford and Rob Brill first relax in one of the wrecks and finally follow the singer. The video ends with a shot in which several pilots stand inside and on the wings of a decommissioned fighter plane. The music video was viewed over 131 million times on YouTube (as of June 2020).
The clip is occasionally shown in Europe's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks on VH1 and is included in Top Gun's DVD collection .
Cover versions
- In 1986 Gérard Lenorman published a French version of the song called Les bleu des regrets .
- 1986 Ute Berling sang I want to go with you .
- In 1986 a version of the a cappella band The Flying Pickets was released .
- 1987 coverten The Shadows song.
- In 1987 a cover version of the cantopop singer Sandy Lam was also released, which also found its way into Wong Kar-Wai's film As Tears Go By .
- In 1992, Howard Carpendale published a German version called You belong to me .
- In 2000 Westberlin Masculin sampled the song for their rap Berlin2 .
- In 2002 Jan Wayne covered the song as a bonus track for his album Back Again! .
- In 2003 the Knife released an electro version called You Take My Breath Away in cooperation with the singer Jenny Wilson .
- In 2004 Jessica Simpson released her version of the song on the album In This Skin .
- In 2007 Diana Ross covered the song for her album I Love You .
- In 2010 the song appeared on the album The Movie Songbook by Sharleen Spiteri .
- In 2016, the Italian band Klimt covered the song on their album Sentimentale Jugend in 1918 .
A Czech version "Ještě se mi směj" was interpreted by Petra Janů .