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In the UK, "Eye of the Tiger" sold 956,000 copies and was number one on the UK Singles Chart for four consecutive weeks. At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards, "Eye of the Tiger" won Best Rock Performance by Duo or Group with Vocal and was nominated for Song of the Year. At the 55th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Original Song.
James Michael Peterik (/ ˈ p iː t ə r ɪ k / PEE-tə-rik; [1] born November 11, 1950) [2] is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the founder of the rock band Survivor, as vocalist and guitarist in The Ides of March, and as co-writer of the anthem "Eye of the Tiger", the theme from the 1982 film Rocky III.
The band performed "Eye of the Tiger" on ABC's Dancing with the Stars on April 3, 2007. In 2008 Michael Young replaced Chris Grove on keyboards. According to Sullivan, and revealed at Survivormusic.com on March 5, 2010, an album of new original music, Re-Entry , was to be released the following month, but no album was ever released.
Eye of the Tiger is the third album by American rock band Survivor, released in 1982. It reached #2 on the US Billboard 200 chart. [3] The album features the title track, which is also the theme song of the film Rocky III. The single went to #1 in both the US [3] and UK, [4] while "American Heartbeat" reached #17 in the US. [3]
In 2018, he joined Jim Peterik on stage to perform "Caught in the Game", "Rebel Girl" and "Eye of the Tiger". On September 28, 2018, he released his debut solo album, Darklight . On May 17, 2021, he performed on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert singing about a fugitive tiger in Houston [ 10 ] to the tune of "Eye of the Tiger".
Influenced by 1970s culture and the musical legacy of the Rocky film series, Coogler noted that "the music was a big focal point" for the film, stating, "'Eye of the Tiger', 'No Easy Way Out', all those songs were a massive hit. And we embraced that. We recorded original songs for the movie."
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The song was used in a preliminary cut of Rocky III, before being replaced by Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger". "When one of my idols, Brian May , attended one of our shows in Los Angeles in 1984, he brought up that subject", recalled Survivor guitarist Frankie Sullivan , to whom Sylvester Stallone had supplied a copy of the movie.