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- "Take My Breath Away" is a song from the movie Top Gun composed by Giorgio Moroder (music) and written by Tom Whitlock (lyrics), performed by the band Berlin.
- It is featured on the Top Gun movie soundtrack album and on Berlin's 1986 album Count Three and Pray.
- The song debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1986, and won the Oscar for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1987.
- The video shows the band's singer, Terri Nunn, dressed in a blue dress, walking at night, between plane wrecks in a junkyard, followed by two men, and interspersed with clips from the movie.
- Gérard Lenorman adapted it into French under the title "Le bleu des regrets" in 1986.
- Jessica Simpson covered it in 2004.
- Sandy Lam covered it in Mandarin for the film As Tears Go By.
- Naya Rivera and Dianna Agron covered it in an episode of the TV series Glee.
- Jessica Simpson's version is the third single from her third album In This Skin, released on March 7, 2004. The song is composed by Billy Mann.