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“Jim and I wrote really, really good lyrics because we worked hard at lyrics,” Sullivan continued. As a writer you don’t just write about what’s going on in your own life, but about what’s going on in life itself.” Went the distance, now I’m back on my feet – it’s part of life. The verse – Risin’ up, back on the street / Did my time, took my chances – we’ve all learned that. The last tag line of the chorus – we couldn’t come up with one, it took a long time. The lyric was the problem, and not the verses, but the chorus. Jim and I worked really good together, it flowed together kinda naturally. We wrote the music together in 10 or 15 minutes. “He needed something with a pulse, something with a vibe. “Sly said, ‘I need a pulse,’” Sullivan recalled.
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And Tony asks Sly when he’s gonna put his new movie out, and if the music’s done, and says, ‘Well, there’s this one part…’ and that’s how the process started.”Īfter discussing what Stallone still needed for the movie, and reading a copy of the Rocky III script, Sullivan and Peterik came up with the song. “Way before ‘Eye of the Tiger.’ They were out to dinner one night. “Tony Scotti and Sly Stallone were friends,” he said. Via phone with American Songwriter, Sullivan explained how the ball got rolling when one of the owners of Survivor’s label, Scotti Brothers Records, got the band the gig recording the song which became the theme for Rocky III. Sullivan was a young Midwestern guitar player when all this was happening, never imagining that he had just co-written the “career record” everyone dreams of. “Eye of the Tiger,” written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik of Chicago rock band Survivor, found its place in history not only as the theme song of the Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky III, but also as a number one song on the Billboard charts and the title song of an album that has sold in the millions. Now imagine that somewhere, on some cable channel or terrestrial or Internet radio station somewhere in the world, your song has been played daily for nearly 40 years.
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It’s hard for most of us to comprehend having written dozens of commercially recorded songs, but imagine also having co-authored a number one song that received a Grammy award, as well as Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.