Top Gun Anthem
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| “Top Gun Anthem” | ||
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Single by [Steve Stevens]
from Album = Top Gun (soundtrack) |
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| Released | 1986 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1985 | |
| Genre | Instrumental rock | |
| Length | 4:12 | |
| Label | Columbia Records | |
| Producer | Harold Faltermeyer | |
"Top Gun Anthem" is an instrumental rock song played on guitar by Steve Stevens. It was the theme for the 1986 film Top Gun and was featured on the soundtrack. "Top Gun Anthem" won a 1987 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. The song's music video, directed by Dominic Sena, shows Harold Faltermeyer playing the piano and Stevens on electric guitar in a hangar with Naval aircraft. This video was re-released within the 2004 Top Gun Collector's Edition DVD. Since the advent of peer-to-peer filesharing networks, the song is often misattributed to Joe Satriani or Eddie Van Halen
A similar tune was found in the 1988 Amiga flight simulator F/A-18 Interceptor.
Rapper T.I. sampled the guitar riff for his song Big Things Poppin'.
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