Listeners to radio station Magic 105.4 voted for their favourites with the top 40 due to be aired in a countdown on Bank Holiday Monday, hosted by Stephen Merchant and Jimi Mistry. The track, sung by Celine Dion, finished ahead of Take That's Rule The World from the film Stardust, which came second Just under two hours after the sinking, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and brought aboard about 705 survivors.Titanic theme tune My Heart Will Go On has cruised to the top of fans' affections after being named the top movie song of all time. Meanwhile, passengers and some crew members were evacuated in lifeboats, many of which were launched only partly loaded.īy 2:20 AM, the giant ship broke apart and foundered, with over 1000 people still aboard. The glancing collision caused Titanic's hull plates to buckle inwards along her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight compartments to the sea the ship gradually filled with water. Only 1,178 people can be carried in lifeboats.įour days into the crossing and about 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm ship's time. The ship had advanced safety features, but there were not enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Under the command of Edward Smith, the ship leaved Southampton with 2224 passengers aboard, including some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds of poor emigrants from Europe seeking a new life in North America. Here are some of the covers and alternate versions of “My Heart Will Go On”. Dion heard the song and didn’t want to record it until her husband Rene Angelil convinced her to do a demo version.Īfter becoming one of the best selling singles of all time, many different covers were created in its wake. Horner went ahead and got Jennings to write the lyrics down and chose Celine Dion as his first choice in singing the song. He then wanted to make a full song out of it, something which James Cameron denied. Horner had originally composed the song as just instrumental and a motif that would be used in several scenes of the movie. Just like the Titanic movie itself, the song become one of the best selling singles of all time and the best selling single of 1998. The song was released in Australia and Germany on Decemand hit the rest of the world on January and February of 1998. It hit number 1 all over the world including in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. The song was recorded by Celine Dion and released on her 1997 album Let’s Talk About Love. The theme song to the 1997 Titanic movie, “My Heart Will Go On” was written by James Horner, lyrics by Will Jennings, and production was done by Walter Afanasieff.
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