Phil Collins Song in Iconic Miami Vice Scene Fact Checked

"Miss You" by the Rolling Stones ... "Brother's Keeper" from MCA Home Video) ... "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins (also used in the fourth-season episode "A Bullet for Crockett")...

In 1984, the song was used in a scene from the first episode of the television series Miami Vice, which film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz cited as why the song has been stamped as "Property of Michael Mann" (the series' executive ...

2006 : Miami Vice : Deux Flics à Miami de Michael Mann (version par Nonpoint dans le générique de fin) ; 2006 : Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories : Dans les radios du jeu ainsi qu'en concert, et dans une mission. Phil Collins a été recréé, et le concert diffuse sa musique entièrement.

Despite the fairly minimal amount of plot progression it contains, the scene is set to almost the entire length of the song "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, some five and a half minutes, stretched out through the use of flashbacks to Rafael's ...

"In the Air Tonight" is one of 11 songs that were reused in more than one episode of Miami Vice. The song was included on the soundtrack albums Miami Vice and The Best of Miami Vice in 1989.

As Crockett speeds through the Miami night in his iconic Ferrari Testarossa, the haunting notes of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" start to play, setting the tone for what would become one of the most iconic moments in television history.

40 years ago today (9/16/84), The TV series Miami Vice debuted with a two-hour episode that includes a scene featuring the Phil Collins hit “In The Air Tonight.” According to the YouTube lead comment section of the video, “The “In the Air Tonight” Scene is arguably the most memorable ...

But Collins has repeatedly debunked these myths, insisting that the lyrics weren’t inspired by any specific event.

“In the Air Tonight” had been a needle drop before (in 1983’s Risky Business during a sex scene). But it fit so well in the Miami Vice pilot — “It was a little bit recessed, those drums and those voices, and there was a little bit of echo, so that listening to it, you felt like they were in some hollow space,” Carter says — that some fans of the show wrongly assumed it had been written and recorded for use in that sequence.

„[Director] Thomas Carter came up with the idea of using the Phil Collins song "In the Air Tonight" when Don calls his wife from a phone booth on the highway, with this neon sign in back that says "Bernay's Café." It was almost surreal. It captured most of what the series might become. That song went on to be the one most associated with the show." (Miami Vice at 40: An oral history) Yes, they created an iconic scene, both for the series and for Phil's song.

Son succès aurait pu être immédiat ... plus connues de la série sur un thème qui colle aux paroles : la poursuite de Calderone et le désir de vengeance de Tubbs....

Quant au titre de Phil Collins, il illustre magistralement la séquence devenue culte, lorsque Ricardo Tubbs et Sonny Crockett, au volant de sa fameuse Ferrari Daytona Spyder noire, se rendent à un rendez-vous avec le trafiquant de drogue colombien ...