Top Gun possessed all the hallmarks of an 1980s movie classic. For all the film’s heroics and histrionics, it wouldn’t have been quite the same without “Take My Breath Away,” the ballad that tugged at ...

Tom Whitlock, the Oscar-winning songwriter who co-wrote the lyrics for “Danger Zone” and “Take My Breath Away” for the 1986 film Top Gun, died on Feb. 19. He was 68. No cause of death was revealed, ...

Tom Whitlock, who won a Best Song Oscar for co-writing the No. 1 smash ‘Take My Breath Away’ from Top Gun and also wrote the film’s other hit single “Danger Zone,” has died. He was 68. Gorman-Scharpf ...

Tom Whitlock, an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning songwriter from Springfield, died Friday in Tennessee following a battle with Alzheimer's disease, several friends confirmed. Whitlock, who was ...

Academy Award-winning songwriter Tom Whitlock has died at the age of 68. According to the Gorman-Scharpf Funeral Home, Whitlock died on Feb. 18 in Gallatin, Tennessee. No details about his cause of ...

He teamed with Italian composer Giorgio Moroder after fixing the brakes on his Ferrari, and the pair would share an Oscar. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Tom Whitlock, who wrote the lyrics for the rock ...