The guitar I played on the song had a broken headstock. When we were writing Tiger, I was living with a friend, renting a room for $150 a month and he was waiving the rent half the time. It’s about saying: “I’m not going to try to go to the gym Monday – I am going to go to the gym Monday.” Did we know it was going to go to No 1 in the US for six weeks, and to No 1 in 29 other countries? No, course not, but I felt in my gut that people were going to relate to the song because it’s about getting your ass out of bed. I switched again and heard it on a third station, and then I pulled over because it was one of those moments I never wanted to forget. I switched over and I heard it on another station. He’s a really cool guy.Ī week after the film came out I was driving on the freeway and I heard it on the radio. He said: “Print it!” I told him: “But that’s the demo!” Sly said: “I don’t give a fuck what it is.” That’s his attitude.
I don’t care what the hell you do, I want it to kick ass.”Īll I did was push the faders up a single decibel and, boom, you could feel the difference. After two days Sly said: “It doesn’t have balls. So I ended up on my own, 23 years old, at the soundstage at Warner Brothers. He said: “I was up at Sly’s last night, he was banging and slamming his head to it so much he was sweating.” I thought: “Well, that’s a good sign.”įast forward and we were about to go out to Hollywood to put the music to the film, and Jim got sick with pneumonia. I’m friends with his brother Frank, and so I asked him. We sent Sly the song and didn’t hear back from him for a while and were wondering what was going on.
‘I played it on a glued-together guitar’ … from left, Stephan Ellis, Jim Peterik, Dave Bickler, Mark Droubay, Frankie Sullivan. I know people that have been on the operating table and asked to have Eye of the Tiger playing. It’s helped people through cancer or a heart attack. The money doesn’t suck, but the best royalty is that I’ll be in the supermarket and meet random people who tell me the song has affected their lives in a positive way. The Grammy is still sitting on my recording console. People were clapping and standing up, cheering. But I only really got how big the film was about a month later, when I snuck into my local theatre in Illinois, and the place was packed. We went out to Hollywood for the premiere and were on the red carpet with celebrities. You gotta get it back.” That had to be the hook.
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Frankie got the ball rolling with the lyrics: “Back on the street, doing time, taking chances.” But we had to call Stallone and say: “You gotta send us the whole movie because we can’t get any further with the story.” Then we heard that phrase when Apollo says: “You had that eye of the tiger, man, the edge …. It was a few days later in the car when I came up with the riff and the idea of timing the chord changes with the punches. Because Another One Bites the Dust is fucking perfect.” I said: “Frankie, we got our work cut out for us. BOMP, BOMP, BOMP – Another One Bites the Dust by Queen! Stallone couldn’t get the publishing rights. Man, the energy of it – with Mr T rising up and Rocky getting soft and doing commercials. The next day Frankie Sullivan, our guitarist, came over and a FedEx arrived with a giant Betamax video cassette on which was a rough cut of the first three minutes of the movie. Can you help me out?” I told him: “I’ve been waiting for an opportunity like this since I started my career in music.” Something street, something with a pulse.
So I’m talking to Stallone on the telephone. Stallone had said to his friend Tony Scotti “I’m looking for a new sound for my Rocky III movie” and Tony had played him a couple of our songs. One day I came home, pressed play on the answering machine and I heard: “Yo Jim, give me a call, it’s Sylvester Stallone.” I went: “Yeah, right.” Survivor had released two albums, neither of which had done particularly well, and we were worried our label was going to drop us.
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