"The Survivor song ""Eye of the Tiger"" was the theme tune to which film?"
Eye of the Tiger Eye of the Tiger "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
Eye of the Tiger explained the song's title. At first, we wondered if calling it "Eye of the Tiger" was too obvious. 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 the rhyme scheme, you can tell we had set up "rival" to rhyme with "survival". At the end of the day, we said, "Are we nuts?"