Steinman wrote the song with Dean Pitchford, who co-wrote every song on the soundtrack album. She agreed on the condition that Jim Steinman, who was her producer at the time through CBS/ Columbia, could work with her on the project. Paramount Pictures asked Tyler to record a song for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose. Its 1985 re-release in the United Kingdom reached number two (remaining there for three weeks) and topped the singles chart in Ireland. The track was produced by Jim Steinman, who co-wrote the song with Dean Pitchford and was a Top 40 hit in several European countries, as well as Canada and the United States. It later featured on her sixth studio album, Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire (1986).

' Holding Out for a Hero' (often erroneously referred to as ' I Need a Hero') is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose. ' A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)' 1984 single by Bonnie Tyler 'Holding Out for a Hero'įrom the album Footloose: Original Soundtrack of the Paramount Motion Picture and Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire

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