50+ Music<p>"Eye of the Tiger" is a song by the American rock band <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Survivor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Survivor</span></a>. It was written as the theme song for the 1982 film <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RockyIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockyIII</span></a> and released that year as a single from Survivor's third album, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/EyeOfTheTiger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EyeOfTheTiger</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SylvesterStallone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SylvesterStallone</span></a>, the director and star of Rocky III, enlisted Survivor to write the song after the band <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Queen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queen</span></a> denied him permission to use their song "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AnotherOneBitesTheDust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnotherOneBitesTheDust</span></a>". They derived lyrics, including the title, from dialogue in the film. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q94pOU2eQ8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=8Q94pOU2eQ</span><span class="invisible">8</span></a></p>