Editing Rocky IV (section)

==Music==
===Soundtrack===
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The [[film score|musical score]] for ''Rocky IV'' was composed by [[Vince DiCola]], who would later compose the music for ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''. ''Rocky IV'' is the only film in the series prior to ''[[Creed]]'' not to feature original music by [[Bill Conti]]; however, it does feature arrangements of themes composed by Conti from previous films in the series, such as "The Final Bell". Conti, who was too busy with the first two ''[[The Karate Kid (1984 film)|Karate Kid]]'' films at the time, would return for ''[[Rocky V]]'' and ''[[Rocky Balboa (film)|Rocky Balboa]]''. Conti's famous piece of music from the Rocky series, "[[Gonna Fly Now]]", does not appear at all in ''Rocky IV'' (the first time in the series this happened), though a few bars of it are incorporated into DiCola's training montage instrumental.

Songs from the movie include "[[Living in America (James Brown song)|Living in America]]" by [[James Brown]], as well as music by [[John Cafferty]] ("[[Heart's on Fire (John Cafferty song)|Heart's on Fire]]", featuring Vince DiCola), [[Survivor (band)|Survivor]], [[Kenny Loggins]], and [[Robert Tepper]]. Four of these songs became U.S. chart hits, two of which reached the Top Five.  [[Go West (band)|Go West]] wrote "One Way Street" for the movie by request of Sylvester Stallone. [[Europe (band)|Europe]]'s hit "[[The Final Countdown (song)|The Final Countdown]]", written earlier in the decade by lead singer [[Joey Tempest]], is often incorrectly stated as being featured in the film due to its similarity to DiCola's "Training Montage."{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} However, Europe's track was not released as a single until late 1986, after ''Rocky IV''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s release.

According to singer [[Peter Cetera]], he originally wrote his best-selling solo single "[[Glory of Love (Peter Cetera song)|Glory of Love]]" as the end title for this film, but was passed over by [[United Artists]], and was instead subsequently used as the theme for ''[[The Karate Kid Part II]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-peter-cetera-honors-the-glory-of-karate-kids-love-20160414 |title=Flashback: Peter Cetera Honors the 'Glory' of Karate Kid|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=March 18, 2017}}</ref>