Background
The "Top Gun" soundtrack peaked at #1 in America, with the first "Top Gun" single "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins being a big success, peaking at #2 on the American Billboard Hot 100 whilst the following single "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin peaked at #1 and the third single "Heaven in Your Eyes" by Loverboy peaked at #12. As the next release, "Mighty Wings" was chosen to continue the soundtrack's commercial success.
The single failed to make a national impact, failing to chart at all. No further singles were released from the album.
No music video was created for the single, unlike the previous "Top Gun" singles.
The band never performed the song live, and neither has the song appeared on any Cheap Trick release other than the single.
In August 2009, the song was unofficially uploaded to YouTube where it has gained 200,000 views since.
As indicated by the title, the song's lyrics are related to the film's theme.
During an interview by MTV's Alan Hunter with guitarist Rick Nielsen and vocalist Robin Zander, from Spring Break in Daytona, Nielsen mentioned "Mighty Wings", stating "We just finished a song in the studio last night with Harold Faltermeyer, recording a song for his movie called "Top Gun" which has Tom Cruise in it, and so the song we did was called "Mighty Wings". We didn't write it but we did it, and it sounds pretty cool. That's coming out this summer."
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