Winner Takes It All

Album: Over The Top Soundtrack (1987)
Charted: 54
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Songfacts®:

  • This was featured in the movie Over The Top, starring Sylvester Stallone as a championship arm wrestler. In the music video, Hagar and Stallone arm wrestle. Hagar wins.
  • Eddie Van Halen played bass on this.
  • Hagar and Eddie Van Halen wrote this with the help of songwriters Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock. Moroder and Whitlock wrote many movie hits of the '80s, including songs from the movies Flashdance and Top Gun. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Mike - Mountlake Terrace, Washington - USA, for all above
  • Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock also wrote "Meet Me Half Way," which was recorded by Kenny Loggins for the movie.

Comments: 2

  • Mike from Clinton, MaThis song was featured in South Park and Drawn Together in sports parodies, mostly with selfish or vulgar results at the end of the "game".
  • James from Sarasota, FlThis song really fits the movie and it is a good song to pump your adrenaline.
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