“Way before ‘Eye of the Tiger.’ They were out to dinner one night. “Tony Scotti and Sly Stallone were friends,” he said. Via phone with American Songwriter, Sullivan explained how the ball got rolling when one of the owners of Survivor’s label, Scotti Brothers Records, got the band the gig recording the song which became the theme for Rocky III. ![]() Sullivan was a young Midwestern guitar player when all this was happening, never imagining that he had just co-written the “career record” everyone dreams of. ![]() “Eye of the Tiger,” written by Frankie Sullivan and Jim Peterik of Chicago rock band Survivor, found its place in history not only as the theme song of the Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky III, but also as a number one song on the Billboard charts and the title song of an album that has sold in the millions. Now imagine that somewhere, on some cable channel or terrestrial or Internet radio station somewhere in the world, your song has been played daily for nearly 40 years. It’s hard for most of us to comprehend having written dozens of commercially recorded songs, but imagine also having co-authored a number one song that received a Grammy award, as well as Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.
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