Leslie HasslerEver since it was announced that Tom Cruise would be returning in a Top Gun sequel called Top Gun: Maverick, there’s been speculation that Kenny Loggins’ “Danger Zone,” from the original Top Gun soundtrack, might be included. Kenny confirms he’s been trying to make it happen, without much success.
“I’ve offered a few different versions of it but so far, the team there has been non-committal,” he tells ABC Radio. “So I’m kinda half-jokingly saying, ‘Let’s do a write in’ and just have people send some sort of note to their website and say, “What about ‘Danger Zone’?”
“I’m getting positive noises from that camp,” he adds. “But they’re not sure how much they wanna reinvent the movie.”
“Danger Zone” is included on Kenny’s new two-CD/DVD set, Kenny Loggins & Friends: Live on Soundstage. It documents a concert he taped in Chicago in 2016 that features him performing solo and with well-known collaborators like Jim Messina, David Foster and Michael McDonald.
“I wanted to do it as a legacy piece so…we added a whole hour of Loggins & Messina, and then we built out with David Foster and Mike McDonald,” he tells ABC Radio. But there was one person he wasn’t able to get.
“I wanted Stevie [Nicks] to come — we almost had a thing where we were gonna go to her house and do an acoustic version of ‘Whenever I Call You Friend,'” he adds. “And then she took off with Fleetwood Mac and we missed our chance.”
Still, Loggins says, “It felt like a homecoming event or something. It’s really all the music and some of the stories. I wanted more stories in it, but we just didn’t have enough time!”
The concert will air on PBS Soundstage in 2019.
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