“Gonna Fly Now,” otherwise known as the Rocky theme, is easily one of the most iconic pieces of film music ever written, right up there with the Godfather theme and Richard Strauss’ “Thus Spake ...

If you think you can walk away from Creed without hearing the iconic Rocky theme, you are fooling yourself. But, just as Rocky himself has aged over the years, so has the music. Creed focuses on a new ...

Mark Burnett and Sylvester Stallone are recruiting yet another champ for their upcoming NBC boxing reality series, The Contender. "We're talking to Bill Conti, who wrote [the theme from Rocky], about ...

It once seemed impossible that any movie in the long-running boxing franchise would top the first Rocky film, but then 2015's ...

Connors co-wrote the song ‘Gonna Fly Now’ for the 1976 movie 'Rocky' On April 13, 2026, Carol Connors attended a showcase of her documentary Elvis, Rocky & Me: The Carol Connors Story at the 26th ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Rocky runs down ...

CHICAGO -- After the Cubs lost Game 2 of the NLCS in New York on Sunday to fall behind, 2-0, in the series, manager Joe Maddon pumped Gonna Fly Now-- the theme from Rocky-- in the clubhouse as the ...

Just in time for the release of Creed at the end of the month, Atlanta rapper Future has taken the original Rocky theme, that triumphal tune composed by Bill Conti, and remixed it into a hip-hop ...

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In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Rocky runs down ...