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Take My Breath Away is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Alison Moyet. Those roots explain a lot about how Take My Breath Away arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as I Will Always Love You, Hotel California, Love You Inside Out, Here Comes the Rain Again and I Just Called to Say I Love You, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jessica Simpson and The Shadows, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 8 connections around Take My Breath Away, reaching back through Alison Moyet and forward to Jessica Simpson. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Take My Breath Away" is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the 1986 film Top Gun's soundtrack, performed by American new wave band Berlin and included on their album Count Three & Pray. The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 59th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song at the 44th Golden Globe Awards in 1986.
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Take My Breath Away connections
Take My Breath Away grew out of Alison Moyet, shares an orbit with I Will Always Love You, Hotel California, Love You Inside Out and Here Comes the Rain Again, went on to shape Jessica Simpson and The Shadows. 8 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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