"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 had performed on any album up to that point. ""Take My Breath Away"" was re-released in the United Kingdom in October 1990 to coincide with the first television showing of ""Top Gun"" (by ITV, on the evening of October 6, 1990) as well as Peugeot's new television advertising campaign for the 405 model range."
"hits ""still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the era."" The song ""Take My Breath Away"" by Berlin went on to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. The original version released in 1986 included 10 tracks. Tracks 11 to 15 are available on a Special Expanded Edition released in 1999. Tracks 16 to 20 are available on a Deluxe Edition released in 2006. Tracks 16-20 do not appear in the film, nor are they related to it in any way. The song ""Through the"
"add ""a contemporized feeling of the '80s"". The movie's producers were initially worried that they would not be able to get the rights to all the songs that Leitch wanted to use, but Leitch himself estimated that around 75% of his picks made it into the final product. Though the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the concentration of iconic songs was from the first half of the 1980s, with the exception of George Michael's 1988 chart-topping ""Father Figure"", which itself was Leitch's second choice after the 1986 release ""Take My Breath Away"" by Berlin. Other songs featured in the film,"
"Boys"", and ""Danger Zone"". Berlin recorded the song ""Take My Breath Away"", which would later win numerous awards, sending the band to international acclaim. After the release of Loggins's single ""Danger Zone"", sales of the album exploded, selling 7 million in the United States alone. On the re-release of the soundtrack in 2000, two songs that had been omitted from the original album (and had been released many years before the film was made), ""Great Balls of Fire"" by Jerry Lee Lewis and ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" by The Righteous Brothers, were added. The soundtrack also includes """"Top Gun"""
"and soon forged her recording career in the band. Her greatest success in Berlin was the top-selling 1986 single ""Take My Breath Away"", the theme song for the film ""Top Gun"". It reached the no. 1 spot on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. She sang other popular songs with Berlin, including ""Sex (I'm A...)"", ""The Metro"", ""You Don't Know"", ""No More Words"" and ""Masquerade"". In 1985, Nunn briefly dated Michael Hutchence, who she met at an INXS concert in London while Berlin were recording the album ""Count Three & Pray"". The relationship ended when INXS returned to Australia. In 1985, Nunn"
"(These last two were founding members, along with Crawford and original male vocalist Tyson Cobb.) Before ""Pleasure Victim"" was completed, Van Patten and Ruiz-Velasco parted ways with Nunn, Crawford, and Diamond. Ric Olsen was brought in to complete tracks on ""Pleasure Victim."" Berlin officially disbanded in 1987, partly due to the lack of success of their album ""Count Three & Pray"" and because of personal disagreements over the single ""Take My Breath Away."" Nunn viewed it as a fresh new song that allowed the band to perform globally, while others disliked it as it had not been written or composed"
"and West Berlin scenes). The Original Soundtrack album for ""Gotcha!"" was released in 1985 under the MCA Records label, and features the main theme song ""Gotcha!"" by the British singer Thereza Bazar, her song was specifically recorded for the film; however the single did not chart. The album also included songs by Giuffria and Nik Kershaw, among others. NOTE: While a British music band Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Two Tribes and Relax are heard in the film, they were not included on the MCA Soundtrack LP. ""Gotcha!"" received mixed reviews from critics. Vincent Canby of ""The New York Times"" noting"
"you want to let the feelings show"" (""I Am a Camera""). The line ""taken in tranquillity"" is also absent from the Buggles song, but reappears on the ""12"" Mix"", which was added as a bonus song for ZTT's (Trevor Horn's own label) 2010 re-release of ""Adventures in Modern Recording"". The line ""I am a camera"" is a quote from Christopher Isherwood's ""Goodbye to Berlin"" (1939). The full sentence reads, ""I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking."" There was also a play (1951) and subsequent film (1955) based on the novel under the name ""I"
"racism, with Nunn portraying a black male. ""Moment of Truth"" was released in the US by DGC Records and by Mercury Records in Europe and Japan. In the US, the album was released on cassette and CD, while in Europe the album was only released on CD. In 1991, a special US CD promo sampler was released featuring a total of eight tracks. Four Berlin hit tracks were used: ""Take My Breath Away"", ""No More Words"", ""Sex (I'm A...)"" and ""The Metro"", along with four tracks from ""Moment of Truth"": ""Let Me Be the One"", ""89 Lines"", ""Who's Gonna Take"
"the studio benefited from extensive free promotion, and thus established the new medium as an important marketing tool for movies. In the mid-1980s, it became almost obligatory to release a music video to promote a major motion picture—even if the film were not especially suited for one. An example from the era is the song and music video ""Take My Breath Away"" from ""Top Gun"" (1986), also from ""Flashdance"" producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. Giorgio Moroder composed ""Take My Breath Away"" and several of the songs for ""Flashdance"". Singers Jennifer Lopez and Geri Halliwell paid homage to ""Flashdance"" in"
"Meyer from Berlin Meyer from Berlin (German: Meyer aus Berlin) is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda and Ethel Orff. It was part of the Sally series of films featuring Lubitsch as a sharp young Berliner of Jewish heritage. It was Lubitsch's penultimate film as an actor, after 1920 he devoted himself entirely to screenwriting and directing. Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women."
"kissed me"". ""I've been obsessed with 'Take My Breath Away' for a very long time,"" she said. Nick Lachey helped produce the vocals for both of her cover songs. Recording ""Angels"" was tough, Simpson said, because she had to do both songs in one day. She also revealed Lachey helped her get in the right mood by keeping his hand in her back pocket ""and being right there"" during the recording session. The first single, a cover of ""Take My Breath Away"" by Berlin, was released on March 25, 2004. It received positive reviews from contemporary critics. ""Take My Breath"
"films from 1970s European cinema to impressionistic effect. In its early days the band was a trio consisting of Andy Grier (vocals), and Swedish musicians Pontus Berghe (drums) and Björn Berglund (keyboards), who met the American Grier in Berlin's Mauerpark in 2002. They started DJing together and eventually began producing their own electronic music. After several years self-producing (including the release of the instrumental and semi-ambient ""Berlin, Alex"") they were discovered by the French imprint Kitsuné who released their first commercial single, ""Drugs In My Body"", in 2007. 2008's ""Play Music"", their second album, was released under Shelflife Records and"
"film earned in excess of $1,250,000. Eight songs from the original score were discarded as they were not considered to advance the film's plot. One of these, ""Get Thee Behind Me, Satan"", was also used in ""Follow the Fleet"" (1936). All five songs eventually selected became major hits and, in the September 28, 1935 broadcast of ""Your Hit Parade"", all five featured in the top fifteen songs selected for that week. Astaire recalled how this success helped restore Berlin's flagging self-confidence. Astaire had never met Berlin before this film, although he had danced on stage to some of his tunes"
"Berlin nightclub (Bowie was appearing nightly on Broadway at the time so director Ulrich Edel had to shoot the sequence in New York). Christiane F. – We Children from Bahnhof Zoo Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a 1981 German junkie drama film directed by Uli Edel that portrays the drug scene in West Berlin in the 1970s, based on the non-fiction book of the same name written following tape recordings of teenage girl Christiane F. The film immediately acquired cult status (which it still retains today) and features David Bowie as both himself and the soundtrack"
"the film ""Easter Parade"". Berlin had then included it in ""Miss Liberty"", but it was dropped from that as well. In this instance, the third time was not the charm: during out-of-town tryouts, Merman insisted it be dropped. (In 1988, Sarah Brightman recorded it for her CD ""The Songs That Got Away"".) To fill the hole its omission left in the second act, Berlin wrote ""Something to Dance About"" to give the second act a lively opening. When the star requested a duet with Russell Nype playing her lovestruck press attaché, Berlin responded by writing the counterpoint tune ""You're Just"
"theme) and ""Super 16"" (Master Fung's theme) from Neu!'s second studio album, ""Neu! 2""; ""Rubycon, Part One"" (The One-Armed Boxer's theme) from Tangerine Dream's sixth studio album, ""Rubycon""; and ""Mitternacht"" (Suspense theme), ""Morgenspaziergang"" (courtyard music) and ""Kometenmelodie 2"" (End credits) from Kraftwerk's fourth studio album, ""Autobahn. The soundtrack has been referenced and sampled extensively, including the use of ""Super 16"" in Tarantino's ""Kill Bill"". Quentin Tarantino has cited the film as ""one of my favorite movies of all time."" The character Dhalsim from the ""Street Fighter"" video game series has been compared to the Indian assassin in the film. In"
"Due to the attention brought on by the single, wider release offers were made by larger record labels for ""Pleasure Victim"". Geffen Records' offer was accepted and the label re-released ""Pleasure Victim"" worldwide in early 1983. The label also re-released ""The Metro"", which then became another hit. The band appeared at the 1983 US Festival. In 1984, the band released their next album, ""Love Life"", and the single ""No More Words,"" whose subsequent video saw Terri Nunn and bandmates re-enact a Bonnie and Clyde-style car chase and shoot-out, became their first top-20 hit. ""Take My Breath Away"" (from the movie"
"You Take My Breath Away (Rex Smith song) ""You Take My Breath Away"" is the 1979 debut single by singer-actor Rex Smith and the first release from his third studio album ""Sooner or Later"" which is also featured in the 1979 made-for-television film of the same title starring Smith and Denise Miller. It was produced by Charles Calello and Stephen Lawrence, and written by Lawrence and Bruce Hart. The song reached number ten on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1979 for two weeks (dated on June 23) and spent two weeks at number seven on the ""Cash Box"" Top"
"who wrote the song. The recording of the album wasn't a relaxed affair, as differences of opinion between band members plagued the recording sessions. These clashes were further exacerbated by the recording of the group's previous single, the worldwide #1 hit ""Take My Breath Away"" from the soundtrack of the film ""Top Gun"", which Nunn was eager to record, while the other two members were not excited about due to the song not being written by them (it was written and produced by Giorgio Moroder), and with a sound not representative of the band. The music video sees the band"
"Its peak position was number 36, on the Germany Singles Top 100, it stayed there for one week. Its highest entry was number 36 in the Germany Singles Top 100. The music video for ""Escape to the Stars"", directed by German director Marcus Sternberg for Free the Dragon, was filmed at the International Congress Centrum in Berlin, Germany in one day. Heavily science fiction influenced, it draws direct inspiration from the movie Blade Runner as Strify stated in an interview in German television. Huge parts of the video were 3d-animated and shot in front of the green screen. The video"
"Berlin that was stopped in the Eastern sector and had a refugee removed. Stop Train 349 Stop Train 349 (, , ), is a 1963 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Rolf Hädrich. It was released in the US in 1964 by Allied Artists. It was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. Screenwriter Will Tremper won the Film Award in Gold of the 1964 German Film Awards. An East Berlin refugee trying to escape to West Berlin sneaks aboard a train run by the US military and causes an international incident. The film was originally known as ""Marienborn""."
"Germany with the dialogue in German and English, although in the version released in the US and the UK the dialogue is only in English. In Berlin at the end of World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler (Stellan Skarsgård) is conducting Beethoven's 5th Symphony when yet another Allied air raid stops the performance. A minister in the Nazi government comes to Furtwängler's dressing room to advise him that he should go abroad, and escape the war. The film then jumps to some time after the Allied victory. U.S. Army General Wallace (R. Lee Ermey) tasks Major Steve Arnold (Harvey Keitel) with"
"italiana"", the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup. He has created a score of songs for many performers including David Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Irene Cara, Janet Jackson, Madleen Kane, Melissa Manchester, Blondie, Japan and France Joli. Moroder has stated that the work of which he is most proud is Berlin's ""Take My Breath Away"", which earned him two Golden Globes (for Best Original Score and Best Original Song) and the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986; he had earned the same awards in 1983 for ""Flashdance... What a Feeling"". In addition to the three Academy"
"Awards and won four, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films. The film is also notable for its memorable electronic theme tune by Vangelis, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. The film's title was inspired by the line, ""Bring me my chariot of fire,"" from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn ""Jerusalem""; the hymn is heard at the end of the film. The original phrase ""chariot(s) of fire"" is from 2 Kings and in the Bible. In 1919,"
"entire soundtrack (save for ""TVC 15"" and ""Stay"") is made up of songs from Bowie's Berlin years (1977–1979), the story of Christiane F. plays in the early stages of that time (1976-1977); e.g. Christiane F. visited the concert of the Isolar – 1976 Tour in Berlin, which was opened by the song ""Station to Station"". The live version included in the film and soundtrack is taken from the album ""Stage"", recorded on the 1978 Isolar II Tour. Album Christiane F. (album) Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo is a soundtrack album by David Bowie, released on LP in"
"The Berliner (film) The Berliner (original title Berliner Ballade, also known as The Ballad of Berlin) was a 1948 motion picture, adapted by Günter Neumann from his cabaret, directed by Robert A. Stemmle, and starring Gert Fröbe in his first leading role. It offers a satirical portrayal of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. The film has a framing narrative set in 2050 where viewers are offered the chance to look back at ""The Ancients"", which introduces the main narrative set in 1948. The film reflects the struggles of Otto Normalverbraucher (Otto Average-Consumer, played by Fröbe),"
"Berlin using ""some sort of passport manipulation"", and her apartment was under surveillance to catch anyone attempting to retrieve its contents. Pryor also stated that the film's depiction of Wolfgang Vogel was unfair. The film depicts the shooting down of Powers' U2 plane as occurring after a single volley of three SAMs, however, more than 14 were launched. A MiG-19 fighter that was scrambled to intercept the plane was also shot down by friendly fire during this salvo, killing the pilot Sergei Safronov. The theatrical poster for the film was released on June 4, 2015, with the first trailer appearing"
"beaten by ""Bicycle Thieves"". It won an International Prize at the 10th Venice International Film Festival in 1949. The Berliner (film) The Berliner (original title Berliner Ballade, also known as The Ballad of Berlin) was a 1948 motion picture, adapted by Günter Neumann from his cabaret, directed by Robert A. Stemmle, and starring Gert Fröbe in his first leading role. It offers a satirical portrayal of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II. The film has a framing narrative set in 2050 where viewers are offered the chance to look back at ""The Ancients"", which introduces the"
"looked in the mid-1970s, which reinforces the evaluation of the ""New York Times"" review that Berlin Express had ""the authentic impact of a documentary."" Nominations Berlin Express Berlin Express is a 1948 American drama film directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Ryan, Merle Oberon and Paul Lukas. Thrown together by chance, a group of people search a city for a kidnapped peace activist. Set in Allied-occupied Germany, it was shot on location in post-World War II Frankfurt-am-Main (with exterior and interior shots of the IG Farben Building and its paternoster elevators) and Berlin. During the opening credits, a full-screen"
"Berlin used it in his 1940 musical ""Louisiana Purchase"", in which it describes feelings of despair and hope during the American Great Depression, of the 1930s. It was recorded by British artist Vera Lynn and promoted to lift spirits of British people during the darkest days of World War Two and the Blitz. The song contains the following chorus by which it is popularly known. The song's title was used as the title of a made-for-TV film of 1975 called ""It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow"", which is a drama documentary examining the Bethnal Green Disaster of 1943 in which 173"
"Reeves, given the studio was busy with films such as ""Scarface"", ""Flashdance"" and ""Beverly Hills Cop"", and wrote his own songs. Prior to the production of the ""Top Gun"" soundtrack, Moroder found his songwriting partners Keith Forsey and Pete Bellotte unavailable, and knowing Whitlock was a lyricist invited him for the project. Whitlock and Moroder co-wrote five songs for ""Top Gun"" including ""Take My Breath Away"" and the Kenny Loggins hit ""Danger Zone"". ASCAP shows 113 songs registered, performed by artists such as Berlin, Bonnie Tyler, Jennifer Rush, Michael McDonald, Ray Charles, Graham Nash, Diana Ross, Teddy Pendergrass, Roger Daltrey"
"in the film comes from the band's first two albums, ""Leisure"" and ""Modern Life Is Rubbish"", although the non-album tracks ""Popscene"" and ""Day Upon Day"" are also included. Several fans give their verdict on Blur, particularly on how the band have perfected their live act. The band's manager also appears in some scenes, although his face is blanked out. Two German fans seem obsessed with the band and Damon Albarn in particular, having followed the group from New York to England to Germany. Since its original 1993 release, the film has gained a cult following and was re-released on DVD"