With 'Top Gun: Maverick' finally hitting theaters, danreilly11 caught up with kennyloggins to get the full story of how “Danger Zone” came to be
Photo: Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images For all its F-14s and snappy one-liners, Top Gun wouldn’t be remembered as one of the quintessential ’80s blockbusters if it weren’t for the music.
With that track record, it was only natural that Loggins and co-producer Peter Wolf would get an invite from Bruckheimer’s office to attend a screening of an early cut of Top Gun to see about adding songs to the film. But Loggins soon found out they’d have competition for the gig when, by his estimate, 20 or so other songwriters showed up at the theater, all looking for an opportunity to write music for the Scott-directed film.
“The producers and the Music Supervisor came to the studio with over 300 songs to audition against various scenes,” Whitlock said, according to a 2018 interview with him by Rediscover the ’80s. “There was a Sony TV in the studio and they would run footage and play bits of songs against various scenes. Nothing seemed to be working very well so … Jerry asked Giorgio to write something. Giorgio came up with the track that became ‘Danger Zone.
Still, given that Loggins didn’t write the majority of the song, he had to get in a different headspace to emotionally deliver Whitlock’s high-octane words. “If I write it myself, I’m usually much more connected to the lyrics. With somebody else’s song, you have to act it,” he says. “I was listening to a lot of Tina Turner back then, and so I just kind of went into character for that. Especially the chorus, the way I pronounced ‘danger zone’ was very Tina.
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