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"Take My Breath Away" is the name of a Love Song from the film '' Top Gun '', performed by the band Berlin . It won the Academy Award For Best Original Song as well as the Golden Globe Award For Best Original Song in 1987 . RELEASES AND PERFORMANCE "Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the '' Top Gun Soundtrack '' for which Giorgio Moroder won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and was released in 1986 as a split single alongside the song "Radar Radio": # "Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from ''Top Gun'')" (performed by Berlin) # " Radar Radio " (performed by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock) The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 13, 1986 and became Number 1 In The UK for four weeks in November 1986. "Take My Breath Away" is available in the '' Top Gun Soundtrack '' (both the original and expanded editions) and was also released on Berlin's ''Count Three And Pray'' album in 1986 and featured in several "best of" and Remix albums: ''Best Of Berlin 1979-1988'', ''Master Series'', ''Greatest Hits Remixed'' (which includes a "Mission UK Remix" version), ''LIVE: Sacred & Profane'' and ''Metro Greatest Hits''."Take My Breath Away" was one of the only songs "not" written by Berlin's John Crawford that they preformed on their album until then. "Take My Breath Away" was re-released in October 1990 to coincide with the first television showing of '' Top Gun '' (by ITV, on the evening of 6th October) as well as Peugeot's new television advertising campaign for the 405 model range. It reached second place in the UK singles charts. MUSIC VIDEO The Europe's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks program. This video was re-released within the 2004 Top Gun DVD Collector's Edition. COVERS The song has been performed by other artists, such as Jessica Simpson , who included it on the special edition of her album '' In This Skin '', the band Copeland on their album of cover songs, ''Know Nothing Stays the Same'', and was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy Lam . The Christian Rock band Relient K also covered it as part of their "Top Gun Medley" in a few tours of theirs. Originally Martha Davis of '' The Motels '' was asked by '''''Giorgio Moroder''''' to make a ''demo'' of the song. Her ''"Demo"'' version is available on '' The Motels '' ''Anthologyland'' CD. Jessica Simpson cover
"Take My Breath Away" is the third Single by Pop Music Singer Jessica Simpson , released from the Album '' In This Skin '' in 2004 . It is a cover of the classic hit by Berlin , written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock , with Simpson's version produced by Billymann . Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick Lachey . Simpson's version was also included on the Compilation Album '' Now That's What I Call Music! 16 '' (from the U.S. ''Now!'' series). Music video The Video shows her driving through a southwestern Desert . She stops to fill up with Gas , and then arrives at a Diner where she watches lovers in motion. The music video peaked at #5 on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown. Chart performance "Take My Breath Away" became a top-twenty hit on the , Adult Contemporary , the Hot 100 Airplay , Hot Dance Music/Club Play , and Hot Digital Tracks . In late 2005 it received a Gold certification by the RIAA . TRIVIA
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