![]() But they thought, 'Well, who do we know that are the artists who can sing this high and has the chops for this?' So they got around to calling me, and I was totally into it. I think I was lower on the list because I was already in the movie, I was already involved with “Playing with the Boys,” and they probably didn't want an artist to do more than one song. No, I got a call from Giorgio Moroder's office when they realized they had to dub the song into the movie, and they didn't have an act to sing it because with the acts that had been lined up, act or acts I'm not sure which, that the deal had dropped through. Loggins: Maybe I'd want to shoot myself in the foot (laughs). ![]() Was there a moment when you thought that maybe you didn't have time or didn't want to have two songs in the same movie? That would have changed so many things. Thompson: We know that you weren't originally meant to record “Danger Zone.” You had “Playing with the Boys” in the bag because that was the one you decided to go for, and then “Danger Zone” came your way last minute. Kenny Loggins attends the Global Premiere of 'Top Gun: Maverick' in San Diego, California. Instead of that, they used it at the beginning, and I think it was a wise choice. Initially, the director told me he was thinking of using it later in the scene when Tom comes to the rescue. He wanted to rekindle that original excitement, so he used “Danger Zone” as an opening to the movie. Tom wanted the feeling of the original version. I added more guitars and bigger echoes to the song so that the drums, when they boom, would wrap around you as an echo. For a movie with the new 5.1 and the different mix of parameters where you can have the music all around you, even coming from your seats sometimes, I wanted something that would accommodate that. I had rerecorded “Danger Zone” for commercial usage. I wanted to have my own hits and my masters rerecorded so I could get them out from under the other umbrella. Loggins: No, I definitely revisited before that because the song gets so many other usages. Thompson: How long had you been working on, or thinking about, reworking “Danger Zone” in case that opportunity came up? Or was it after that encounter when you thought about revisiting it?
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