Take My Breath Away
Take My Breath Away is a song by Californian pop band Berlin in 1986, which was written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock. The piece appeared as Love Theme (Love Theme) on the soundtrack to the movie Top Gun in 1987 and received both an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Take My Breath Away, together with the Radar Radio B- side ( also written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, sung by Giorgio Moroder and Joe Pizzulo ) released as a split single on September 13th, 1986 worldwide. It remained in the U.S. a week and four weeks in the UK at number one. In Germany the song reached number three in second place for each 14 weeks for a month, in Austria and number four in Switzerland.
This song was released in 1987 on the album Count Three and Pray and was represented based on the success on later albums: Best of Berlin ( 1979-1988 ), Master Series, Greatest Remixes ( includes a remix version of the song from The Mission ), Live: Scared & Profane and Metro Greatest Hits.
The song was released in October 1990 on the occasion of the first showing of Top Gun in the UK television ITV again and also used in a commercial for the Peugeot 405. With the re-release the song debuted at number three in the UK.
Music Video
The music video was filmed with the cooperation of the band members on the Mojave Air & Space Port Airport in California and combined with scenes from the movie Top Gun, which show the first rendezvous between the two main actors Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. Singer Terri Nunn runs with a tattered and oil-stained blue coveralls in a windy night on an aircraft cemetery around. John Crawford and Rob Brill relax initially in one of the wrecks and finally follow the singer. The video ends with a setting in which there are several pilots in the interior and on the wings of a disused combat aircraft.
The clip is occasionally shown in Europe 's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks on VH1 and is included in the DVD Collection of Top Gun.