Survivor is an American rock band formed in 1977 by core members Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan. The band achieved its greatest success in the 1980s with its album-oriented rock (AOR), which garnered many charting singles, especially in the United States. The band is best known for its 1982 hit "Eye of the Tiger", the theme song for the motion picture Rocky III (US #1). Singles like "Burning Heart" (US #2), "The Search Is Over" (#4 US), and "High on You" (#8 US) continued to chart in the mid-1980s. The band tweaked its musical direction in 1988 with the release of the slightly heavier Too Hot to Sleep, but due to changes in the music industry and shift of popularity onto bands like Motley Crue and Poison, the album barely reached the Billboard 200 in the United States. Because of this, the band split, but singer Jimi Jamison would later tour as Survivor in the mid-1990s to the rest of the band's chagrin. Jamison re-united with the band's other members in 2000 and the band relased Reach in 2006, but Jamison left the band after its release and was replaced by Robin McAuley. The band has continued to tour with McAuley into 2008. Early Years Survivor was formed in 1977 by Jim Peterik, Frankie Sullivan, Dave Bickler, Gary Smith and Dennis Keith Johnson. Initially, the group was known as The Jim Peterik Band. But Peterik liked the idea of a band identity better, so the Survivor name was adopted by 1978. Peterik was previously the lead vocalist/guitarist for the band Ides of March.[1] After playing in small clubs for several years, Survivor released its first album, the self-titled Survivor, in 1979, but the album did not achieve the level of success that the band had hoped for, producing no Top 40 singles. In 1981 Johnson & Smith had schedule conflicts with their other projects, so they were replaced by Stephan Ellis & Marc Droubay in time for the band's follow-up album, Premonition, charted higher, achi
1 | I Can't Hold Back | Ultimate Survivor |
2 | You Know Who You Are | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
3 | Eye Of The Tiger | Eye of the Tiger |
4 | Is This Love | Ultimate Survivor |
5 | Man Against The World | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
6 | Hungry Years | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
7 | Eye of the Tiger | 101 Running Songs |
8 | American Heartbeat | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
9 | Eye Of The Tiger | NOW That's What I Call Running |
10 | Somewhere In America | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
11 | Burning Heart | Ultimate Survivor |
12 | The Search Is Over | Ultimate Survivor |
13 | Desperate Dreams | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
14 | Poor Man's Son | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
15 | How Much Love | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |
16 | The Moment Of Truth | Survivor: Greatest Hits [1979-1990] |