Holding Out for a Hero

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Holding Out for a Hero
Bonnie Tyler
publication January 31, 1984 (Soundtrack)
April 13, 1984 (single)
length 5:50 (album version)
4:21 (single version)
Genre (s) Pop rock
Author (s) Jim Steinman , Dean Pitchford
Producer (s) Jim Steinman
Label Columbia Records
album Footloose (Soundtrack) , Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Holding Out for a Hero
  DE 19th 06/04/1984 (11 weeks)
  UK 2 05/05/1984 (16 weeks)
  US 34 04/14/1984 (13 weeks)

Holding Out for a Hero is a 1984 Bonnie Tyler song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford . The song is part of the soundtrack of the film Footloose .

history

Holding Out for a Hero was released as a single on April 13, 1984; the original length is 4:22 minutes. The instrumental version of the song is 5:15 minutes long; some remixed versions of the song were also released. In 1986 Tyler released the song on her album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire .

The line "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? / Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" Comes from Ubi sunt , and some parts from Jim Steinman's Stark Raving Love were also sampled in In the plot of the song, the protagonist begs a hero to save her. The piece is used in the television series Superman - The Adventures of Lois & Clark and Drawn Together as well as in the soundtrack of the films Bandits! , Shrek 2 and Who is Harry Crumb? .

Video

At the beginning of the video, the singer Bonnie Tyler escapes from a burning house. During the chorus “I need a Hero” she stands in a white dress on the Grand Canyon. In the end the hero comes ridden on a white steed.

Cover versions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sources Chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / US , accessed December 29, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  2. Holding Out for a Hero in the Official UK Charts (English)