Sylvester Stallone originally wanted Queen's Another One Bites the Dust in Rocky III and apparently had temped the song to the film but ultimately Queen refused it's use in the film by saying no to the publishing rights.
This led Stallone to seek out the band Survivor who ended up writing Eye of the Tiger for the film instead and the rest is history.
stevelondon20 · Member since
AOBTD would have worked perfectly!
Sheldon · Member since
It's funny how nowadays their songs are used by pretty much every film/TV-show/ad/whatever that wants to use them and back then they said no to a fucking Rocky movie!
matt z · Member since
http://youtu.be/-TkiEUpbiKI
There's a YouTube video of the songwriter telling this exact story. He thanks QUEEN for refusing to authorize rights.
If you hadn't seen it before u can thank me for the laughs. It's totally Spinal Tap
sahm · Member since
ha ha ha spinal tap is right matt ha ha ha
Makka · Member since
Yeah, I saw a Game Of Thrones advert on Foxtel the other day with I Want It All playing? WTF?
