One of the most iconic aspects of the original Top Gun is its soundtrack and Top Gun: Maverick has brought in Lady Gaga for its big soundtrack song, “Hold My Hand”, which seems closest to Berlin’s “Take My Breathe Away” from the original with its sweeping power ballad tendencies.

One of the roles the late Fred Ward was known for was Remo Williams in 1985’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, which Orion Pictures hoped would become a James Bond-style action series for them. However, the movie failed critically and commercially however and there were no other Remo Williams movies. Adding to the James Bond feel, Styx lead singer Tommy Shaw contributed a theme song, “Remo’s Theme (What If)”, with a music video set on the movie’s replica of the Statue of Liberty that was used in one of the main set pieces of the film.

One of the most wonderfully terrible music videos ever made, The Karate Rap extolls the virtues of martial arts and the prowess of husband and wife practitioners, David Seeger and Holly Whitstock Seeger.

Director Richard Curtis approached Scottish soft rock band Wet Wet Wet to do a cover of a classic song for the soundtrack of 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and the band went with “Love is All Around”, which was a 1967 hit by the band The Troggs.

Best known today for Hawaii Five-0 and his role in the Ocean’s series, back in the day Scott Caan was one half of the rap duo The Whooliganz, going by the name Mad Skillz and working with Alan Maman aka Mudfoot, who is now known for his role as the hip-hop producer The Alchemist.

A self-professed superfan of Nicolas Cage, Kesha crafted an ode to her idol in quarantine during the spring of 2020 with the song “Nicolas Cage”, which dropped in April of 2020 a few months after the pair got to meet in person at the premiere of Color Out of Space.

When singer/songwriter Michael Penn provided the score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film Boogie Nights in 1997, PTA returned the favor by directing the music video for Penn’s song “Try”, which was the opening song of Penn’s 1997 album Resigned.

Released when No Time to Die was going to hit theaters in early 2020, the journey of Billie Eilish’s theme song “No Time to Die” culminated last weekend when it won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Along with his various acting roles over the years, including this weekend’s Morbius, Jared Leto has been the lead singer of Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in 1998 with his brother Shannon Leto and has gone on to make five studio albums and hit singles like “The Kill” and “Kings and Queens”

The first Hunger Games movie turns 10 this week and one of the major ways it was promoted was via its soundtrack album, The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, which featured the pairing of Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars for the single “Safe & Sound”.

Going back to his early days as a lounge singer, Joe Pesci recorded the album Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You in 1998, which he performed on in character as Vinny Gambini from My Cousin Vinny and which featured the “rap” song, “Wise Guy”, which got an official music video starring Pesci.