Ride into the danger zone.
But the song was almost a little different.
Loggins tells EW he put a new spin on the famous track for the sequel.
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“ButTom Cruisereally wanted to conjure up the original version, the original feeling.
So in the long run, it turned out to be the old track coming back.”
Director Joseph Kosinkipreviously told EWthat was a deliberate choice to reassure the audience they were in good hands.
“I said, ‘So, tell me, is “Danger Zone” in or out?’
And he said, ‘It wouldn’t beTop Gunwithout “Danger Zone."’
He stayed true to his word.
Loggins wasn’t even supposed to record “Danger Zone” in the first place.
“But then I got a call that he needed a singer,” Loggins adds.
“I was writing ballads mostly, and I needed something up-tempo for my show.
I had not yet heard it until I got together with Tom and we worked on that.
Then the next day I was in the studio, singing it with Giorgio.”
In this case, he was more the singer than the architect of the song.
