Tom Whitlock, the Oscar-winning songwriter who co-wrote the lyrics for “Danger Zone” and “Take My Breath Away” for the 1986 film Top Gun, died on Feb. 19. He was 68. No cause of death was revealed, ...
Top Gun possessed all the hallmarks of an 1980s movie classic. For all the film’s heroics and histrionics, it wouldn’t have been quite the same without “Take My Breath Away,” the ballad that tugged at ...
Tom Whitlock, who won a Best Song Oscar for co-writing the No. 1 smash ‘Take My Breath Away’ from Top Gun and also wrote the film’s other hit single “Danger Zone,” has died. He was 68. Gorman-Scharpf ...