dave bickler sang rocky theme song eye of the tiger.
dave bickler sang rocky theme song eye of the tiger.
who sings rocky theme song eye of the tiger?
dave bickler
"eye of the tiger" is a song composed by american rock band survivor. it was released as a single from their third album of the same name "eye of the tiger" and was also the theme song for the film "rocky iii", which was released a day before the single. the song was written by survivor guitarist frankie sullivan and keyboardist jim peterik, and 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. the version of the song that appears in the movie is the demo version of the song. the movie version also contained tiger growls, something that did not appear on the album version. it features original survivor singer dave bickler on lead vocals.
eye of the tiger
when rocky, now heavyweight champion, wins a number of succeeding matches and becomes increasingly wealthy and famous, paulie becomes jealous. wandering around drunk, he walks into an arcade hall, and, after seeing a pinball machine with a rocky theme, he hurls his liquor bottle at it, destroying the machine. he is arrested and jailed. rocky bails him out, but paulie is still angry, claiming rocky holds him down and owes him. paulie briefly attempts to fight rocky, who easily evades him, and the exhausted paulie finally asks him for a job. rocky agrees and hires him as a cornerman. later, paulie tries to fight the wrestler thunderlips, who is strangling rocky during an exhibition match. paulie accompanies rocky and adrian to los angeles, but complains about the flophouse they are staying in, which annoys apollo. at the end of the film, paulie once again is happy about rocky's victory.
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