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Eye of The Tiger

On this day in 1982 American rock band Survivor topped the chart in the US with “Eye of The Tiger. The song was commissioned by actor writer and director Sylvester Stallone for the theme for the movie Rocky III after Queen denied him permission to use “Another One Bites the Dust”. Eye of The tiger was nominated for the 1982 Academy Award for Best Original Song and would become Survivor’s biggest hit spending six consecutive weeks at number 1 in the US while it also topped the chart in numerous other countries.