But as the writer and director of Rocky III, Stallone wanted to get away from that triumphal orchestral disco-laced film-score sound. “Gonna Fly Now” had been a #1 hit, and Stallone had used it in the first two Rocky movies, both massive successes. Six years earlier, Bill Conti’s “ Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky)” had come to define Stallone’s character Rocky Balboa, the against-all-odds working-class boxing champion. Something street, something with a pulse.” This is what Sylvester Stallone told Survivor keyboardist and songwriter Jim Peterik - at least according to Peterik, who loves telling the story. In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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