The sweeping movie love theme was very much a staple of the 1980s. These songs provided a kind of emotional shorthand, summing up the relationship between the two leads. Even better if the song was a duet between a man and a woman to mimic the give and take between the two characters. If you're looking for a prototype for this type of song, "Up Where We Belong," performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes for the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman, fills that role quite well.
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