Eye of the Tiger

When was the last time you went retro?! Gone spiraling down the rabbit hole of the past? Reminiscing over singers that were incredibly special. Unlike today’s blessed generation where youngsters don’t need to budge a finger to hear melodies of their favourite singers but simply google-speak and voila! They have their songs playing. Back in our days, we went through a helluva trouble to simply lay our hands on our favourite artist’s songs. Even then clarity was a major issue.

Anyway, cutting to the chase, the crux is that like so many others I too am a die-hard fan of Sylvester Stallone, who broke new ground with his Rocky movie series in Hollywood. There was this particular song in Rocky -II ‘Eye of the Tiger’ which everyone swooned over. So, when the flick hit the silver screens, I was as restless as a cat under the tree full of birds.

However, watching movies in theatres was intermittent, parents never understood the deep-rooted desires of children, unfortunately, there weren’t any channels on TV then and waiting for Rocky- II to feature on Doordarshan was almost a joke. So, all hopes dashed to smithereens. I had to wait for a good many years before I caught up on the movie in theatre!

In fact, whenever this song booms out of the sound system, my immediate thoughts run out to rocky, where Stallone wouldn’t give up on his dreams even when he is almost down and done…like a true champ. In real life too, he is champ for overcoming countless obstacles.

So, let’s play ‘Eye of the Tiger’ to see if the steel is still in the voice of  Dave Bickler of Survivor band …Listen and get hooked. Now, don't giggle or snicker at this band members dressing or mannerisms, remember, we time-travelled to a different era.