Take My Breath Away
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| Single by Berlin | ||||
| from the album Top Gun (soundtrack) and Count Three & Pray | ||||
| B-side | "Radar Radio" | |||
| Released | June 15, 1986 | |||
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| Recorded | 1986 | |||
| Length | 4:17 | |||
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| Producer(s) | Giorgio Moroder | |||
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| from the album In This Skin: Collector's Edition | |||||||||||||||
| Released | March 7, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | ||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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| Length | 3:15 | ||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Billy Mann | ||||||||||||||
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"Take My Breath Away" is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the film Top Gun, performed by the band Berlin. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1986.
Once Giorgio Moroder wrote the musical backing to what would become "Take My Breath Away", lyricist Tom Whitlock wrote the lyrics driving home from the studio, and then spent a few hours at home polishing them. The demo done with a background singer impressed director Tony Scott and producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, who decided to film more romantic scenes between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis to feature the song.
The song was originally offered to The Motels; they released their original demo on their compilation album Anthologyland.Columbia Records suggested some of their signed artists, but eventually Moroder thought of the band Berlin, whose hit song "No More Words" he had produced. Whitlock did a few lyrical changes before Terri Nunn recorded the vocals. Moroder said that he is most proud of this song, of all the other hits he has had in his career.
"Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the Top Gun soundtrack album and was released in 1986 as a split single alongside the song "Radar Radio":
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