The song was specifically commissioned by producer to provide a emotional counterpoint to the film's high-adrenaline sequences.

: Whitlock famously wrote the lyrics while driving home from the studio and polished them in just a few hours.

Released in June 1986, by Berlin stands as one of the most definitive power ballads of the 1980s. While primarily known as the love theme for the blockbuster film Top Gun , the song is a complex masterpiece of synth-pop production that provided the band with its greatest commercial triumph while simultaneously acting as the catalyst for its dissolution. Production and Creative Origins