Eye of the Tiger



Eye of the Tiger is a song by the rock bandSurvivor and their famous hit. It was released in 1982 and has over eleven weeks in the Top 40 stood, with its highest position number two. [1]  The song was used for the soundtrack of the film Rocky III .

The song comes from the eponymous album.

The song is also being used by Raymond van Barneveld at darts matches and FC Utrecht as attendance number. The song is also in music games for game consoles, including at Rock Band and Guitar Hero. ==Covers [ Edit] == The following artists have the number retreaded :

Moreover, the refs guitar based on the intro of "Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks, albeit in a different key. ==Parodies [ edit] == Besides these covers, there are also many parodies of this song included, among others:
 * Frank Bruno (boxer)
 * At Vance ( German metal band)
 * Bloodfist ( American metal band)
 * Withering ( Finnish metal band)
 * Josh Joplin
 * Amel Bent
 * Green Day
 * DMX and Ice Cube
 * Lee Harding ( Australian pop artist)
 * Judith Owen
 * Lorena
 * Scorpions
 * Paul Anka (Jazz Version)
 * Journey
 * Gloria Gaynor
 * Katy Perry

==Radio 2 Top 2000 [ edit] ==
 * A parody by "Weird Al" Yankovic entitled, "Theme from Rocky XIII (The Rye or the Kaiser)", was recorded in their 3-D album from 1984.
 * The Israeli band ' Infection 'parodies the song in their 2005 album' Bekhef "(Hebrew: בכיף). The band has the title of the parody left the same, namely, "Eye of the Tiger" (Hebrew: עין הנמר).