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See the full interview with Jim Peterik at along with past installments. Rocky is a story about a small time boxer who gets a once in a lifetime. In partnership with Nashville Songwriters Association International, each week we will release a video interview with a songwriter about his or her work. and that demo version was the one that went in the film. You didn’t write me a third verse.” Busted. But he said, “You got a little lazy on me. We were very inspired by this story, and Burgess Meredith, (who plays) the trainer, going “Rocky, you’re losing the eye of the tiger.” I go, “Bingo. The next day he sent us the whole movie, and that’s when we really got the story.
It was like electricity in that room, but we couldn’t get any further because we didn’t know the story. And then the punches were being thrown, and I just went (plays power chords). I just started going (plays chugging guitar intro). I had my Les Paul around my neck, and I just caught that vibe. T rising up, and Stallone getting kind of soft, doing commercials. Frankie came over, and we see this montage that we’re supposed to write to. Stallone doesnt name names, but in another deleted Instagram message (which you can still glimpse on Twitter ), he seems to confirm that his target is.
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The pressure was on, and the next day I rented a big Betamax Pro (an early video cassette player) and the FedEx came. Sly, man, easy on the all-caps We hear you. He said to Tony Scotti, the label manager, “That’s the sound I want for my theme song.” He heard a song called “Poor Man’s Son” from our “Premonition” album, which is very street, very raw, (singer) Dave Bickler just giving it up. Can you help me out?” I go, “Uh, is the Pope Catholic?” It’s a good song, but I want something for the kids. He says, “I’ve got this new movie called ‘Rocky III,’ and I don’t want to use that ‘Gonna Fly Now’ song. So I call him up, and he answers, “Yo.” I go, “Is this Sylvester Stallone? This is Jim Peterik.” He says, “Yeah, call me Sly.” Suddenly, I’m calling him “Sly” - a kid from Berwyn, Ill.! I was already this huge fan of Stallone anyway, me and my wife. It’s Sylvester Stallone.” I go, “Yeah, right.” I play it back again (and say), “Karen, does this sound like Stallone, or is that just Sal, my roadie?” “No, that’s him.” I hit “Play” and I hear, “Hey, yo, Jim that’s a nice answering machine you got there.
I got home one day, and there’s my big, old answering machine. We knew it was something special because we saw that movie in its rough form. Was that day like any other day? When you started this, did you kind of know that you were on to something special? You and Frankie (Sullivan) from Survivor wrote it. Peterik talked to Bart Herbison, executive director of Nashville Songwriters Association International. The song’s co-writer, Jim Peterik, remembers the day Stallone asked him to write a song for his movie - and how the star reacted when he first heard the demo recording. Few “power chords” are more instantly recognizable than the guitar blasts that open Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” The rock hit served as the theme song for the 1982 film “Rocky III,” starring Sylvester Stallone as boxing champion Rocky Balboa.
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