Since nicknamed the Top Gun Bar, BB Kansas City is one of those places now inseparable from Top Gun.įanspots Stories ParisFanspots are legendary images from films, series, music, comics or novels. Tony Scott even gave him one of the two helmets used by Tom Cruise. When the Top Gun team leaves the Kansas City BBQ, the owner is happy to receive several autographed photos to decorate the walls of her establishment. A juke box that is still in place today, just like the piano. During several days, Tony Scott works in the restaurant to also orchestrate the conclusion, as for it, focused on the juke-box of the restaurant. The piano then becomes the centerpiece of a very important relaxation sequence in the story. He immediately wrote a sequence in which Goose, Maverick’s (Tom Cruise) famous partner, played by Anthony Edwards, the future star of the ER series, plays the song Great Balls Of Fire on the instrument. Passionate about the architecture and ambiance of Kansas City BBQ, Tony Scott is particularly drawn to the upright piano in the dining room.
The owner is delighted to be able to turn her restaurant into a film location for two key scenes. “I feel the need, the need for speed.” Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise)īBQ Kansas City, a restaurant specializing in barbecue, had only been open for two years when Tony Scott and the Top Gun location teams crossed the threshold.
The same bar where the legendary conclusion of Top Gun takes place. Goose (Anthony Edwards) sits down at the piano of his favorite bar to sing, to the delight of his friends, a fiery cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls Of Fire.
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