"Heaven in Your Eyes" was a single released in 1986 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy

Loverboy

Loverboy is a Canadian rock group formed in 1980 in Calgary, Alberta. Throughout the 1980s, the band accumulated numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States, earning four multi-platinum albums and selling millions of records...

, for the Top Gun

Top Gun (soundtrack)

Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. In 2006, it was reissued again in a Deluxe Edition with more additional songs...

soundtrack. It later appeared on Loverboy's 1989 hits compilation Big Ones

Big Ones (album)

Big Ones was an album released in 1989 by the Canadian rock band Loverboy. The album was the band's first compilation, including hit tracks such as "Working for the Weekend" and "Lovin' Every Minute of it"...

. The power ballad reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 charts in the U.S.

The song was originally written by Mae Moore

Mae Moore

Mae Moore is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Her music is a blend of pop, folk and jazz. Her most successful album, 1992's Bohemia, was an international hit, although her other albums have been successful mainly in Canada....

 and John Dexter, both Vancouver

Vancouver

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-area musicians. As recorded, it is credited to Moore, Dexter and Paul Dean

Paul Dean (guitarist)

Paul Dean is the lead guitarist for the Canadian rock band Loverboy which reached huge fame in the early 1980s.-Biography:...

 & Mike Reno

Mike Reno

Mike Reno , born January 8, 1955 in New Westminster, British Columbia is a Canadian musician, drummer, and lead singer of the rock band Loverboy. He has also fronted other bands, including Moxy....

 from Loverboy.

Noteworthy is the fact that Loverboy keyboardist

Keyboard instrument

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 Doug Johnson does not appear in the song's music video. His absence was intentional, as he felt that the Top Gun film over-glamorized war and military service.