Take My Breath Away" is the name of a love song from the film Top Gun, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, performed by the band Berlin. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1987."Take My Breath Away" was the first single from the Top Gun soundtrack and was released in 1986 as a split single alongside the song "Radar Radio":"Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun)" (performed by Berlin) "Radar Radio" (performed by Giorgio Moroder featuring Joe Pizzulo, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock) The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 13, 1986 and became number 1 in the UK for four weeks in November 1986."Take My Breath Away" is available in the Top Gun soundtrack (both the original and expanded editions) and was also released on Berlin's Count Three And Pray album in 1986 and featured in several "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 performed on their album until then."Take My Breath Away" was re-released in October 1990 to coincide with the first television showing of Top Gun (by ITV, on the evening of 6 October) as well as Peugeot's new television advertising campaign for the 405 model range. It reached second place in the UK singles charts.The music video features scenes from the movie Top Gun intermingled with Berlin's singer Terri Nunn performing the song in blue coveralls walking between pieces of planes in a windy junk yard or aircraft boneyard at night. Bandmates John Crawford and Rob Brill are shown relaxing in the yard and then following Terri.[3] This video clip can be seen occasionally in VH1 Europe's Top 10 Movie Soundtracks program. This video was re-released within the 2004 Top Gun DVD Collector's Edition.The song has been performed by other artists, such as Jessica Simpson, who included it on the special edition of her album In This Skin, the band Copeland on their album of cover songs, Know Nothing Stays the Same, and was translated into Cantonese and covered by Sandy Lam.The Christian rock band Relient K also covered it as part of their "Top Gun Medley" in a few tours of theirs.Originally Martha Davis of The Motels was asked by Giorgio Moroder to make a demo of the song. Her demo version is available on The Motels' Anthologyland CD."Take My Breath Away" is the third single by pop music singer Jessica Simpson, released from the album In This Skin in 2004. It is a cover of the classic hit by Berlin, written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock, with Simpson's version produced by billymann. Simpson chose to cover this song because she felt that it was the theme song of her relationship with her then husband, Nick Lachey. Simpson's version was also included on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (from the U.S. Now! series). The remix is seen on Much Dance 2005.The video shows her driving through a southwestern desert. She stops to fill up with gas, and then arrives at a diner where she watches lovers in motion. The music video peaked at #5 on MTV's TRL and spent a total of 12 days on the countdown.Remixes and Other Versions:Take My Breath Away [Album Version] - 3:12 Take My Breath Away [Eddie Baez Mix 2] - 7:08 Take My Breath Away [Orangefuzzz Club Mix] - 7:35 Take My Breath Away [Passengerz Hourglass Mix] - 6:17 Take My Breath Away [Eddie Baez Late Night Club Mix] - 6:30"Take My Breath Away" became a top-twenty hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as a top-ten hit on the Top 40 Tracks and Top 40 Mainstream charts. The song also became another number-one hit for Simpson on the Hot 100 Singles Sales. Although the song did not break records of any sorts, it performed decently on the other tracks it charted on: Adult Top 40, Adult Contemporary, the Hot 100 Airplay, Hot Dance Music/Club Play, and Hot Digital Tracks. In late 2005 it received a Gold certification by the RIAA.Chart (2004) Position U.S. ARC Weekly Top 40 2 U.S. Top 40 Mainstream 8 U.S. Top 40 Tracks 10 U.S. Hot Dance Club Play 10 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 20 U.S. Adult Contemporary 23 Philippine Top Hits 1 UK Singles Chart 4 México Top 100 Singles Chart 9 Australian Singles Chart 15 French Singles Chart 18 Sweden Top 60 43