UK Singles (Official Charts Company) Īll-time charts Chart (1958–2018) Jim Peterik – grand piano, electric guitarĬanada ( Hot Canadian Digital Singles).Frankie Sullivan – lead and rhythm guitars.Credits and personnel Ĭredits adapted from the album Eye of the Tiger. In June 2016 it was reported by CNN that Huckabee had agreed, in a confidential, out-of-court settlement with Sullivan's Rude Music, to pay $25,000 in compensation. The rally took place on September 8, 2015, when Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, was released from jail after spending five days there for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in Kentucky. Mike Huckabee's campaign įrankie Sullivan's company Rude Music filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, Illinois, on November 18, 2015, against the former Governor of Arkansas and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's campaign organization for using "Eye of the Tiger" at a political rally without permission. Romney agreed to drop the song from the campaign's playlists. The same year Sullivan also demanded that Mitt Romney, also a Republican candidate for president, stop using "Eye of the Tiger" at his campaign rallies. In 2012, Survivor sued Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich in Illinois federal court for using "Eye of the Tiger" without authorization as entrance music at his political rallies going back as far as 2009. The song was also nominated for the 1983 Grammy Award for Song of the Year, but lost to the Willie Nelson hit " Always on My Mind". The song was nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song (the only Oscar nomination for Rocky III), but it lost to " Up Where We Belong" from An Officer and a Gentleman. We made the right choice and went with "Eye of the Tiger". At the end of the day, we said, "Are we nuts?" That hook is so strong, and "rival" doesn't have to be a perfect rhyme with the word "tiger". In the rhyme scheme, you can tell we had set up "rival" to rhyme with "survival". The initial draft of the song, we started with "It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the spirit of our rival, and the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night, and it all comes down to survival." We were going to call the song "Survival". In an interview with Songfacts, co-writer Jim Peterik, who shared writing credit with Frankie Sullivan, explained the song's title.Īt first, we wondered if calling it "Eye of the Tiger" was too obvious. Combined sales of original vinyl release and digital downloads total over 9 million copies. It was voted VH1's 63rd-greatest hard rock song. The song had sold over 4.1 million in digital downloads in the United States alone by February 2015. It was certified platinum in August 1982 by the RIAA, signifying sales of 2 million vinyl copies. The single sold 956,000 copies in United Kingdom in 1982. 1 in the United Kingdom, remaining at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four consecutive weeks. The band won an award for "Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal" at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards. This top ten run is tied with the aforementioned "Another One Bites the Dust" as well as "Physical" as the longest run in the top ten for a number one song during the entire 1980s decade. It spent fifteen consecutive weeks in the top ten, the second-longest run of 1982, behind " Hurts So Good" by John Mellencamp (which was prevented from reaching the top of the Hot 100 by "Eye of the Tiger"). 2 single of 1982, behind Olivia Newton-John's " Physical". 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six consecutive weeks (the band's only song to top the chart) and was the No. It gained tremendous MTV and radio airplay and topped charts worldwide during 1982. "Eye of the Tiger" is written in the key of C minor. The song is also the title song to the 1986 film of the same name. It features original Survivor singer Dave Bickler on lead vocals. The film version also contained tiger growls, which did not appear on the album version. The version of the song that appears in the film is the demo version of the song. The song was written by Survivor guitarist Frankie Sullivan and keyboardist Jim Peterik, and it was recorded at the request of Rocky III star, writer, and director Sylvester Stallone, after Queen denied him permission to use " Another One Bites the Dust", the song Stallone intended as the Rocky III theme. It was released as a single from their third album of the same name and was also the theme song for the 1982 film Rocky III, which was released a day before the single. " Eye of the Tiger" is a song by American rock band Survivor.
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