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Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (1985)

  

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"Where have all the good men gone?" Where have all the dramatic songs gone I ask myself? Even though I'm a bloke, I still love the drama in this song. Pet Shop Boys It's A Sin and Frankie's Two Tribes are also firm favourites. We need more drama and powerful productions in today's music!

Anyway, enough ranting from me, let me give you more details about this song, which featured on the official Footloose soundtrack album. On its original release in 1984, the song stalled at #96, but the 1985 re-release just missed the top-spot in the UK charts peaking at #2. Another re-release in 1991 reached #69.

Bonnie Tyler's other big 80s hits were Total Eclipse Of The Heart (#1 in 1983) and a A Rockin' Good Way (#5 1984) which was a duet with Shakin' Stevens.

Don't you just love that gravelly voice?

 

 

 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (1983)

 

Bonnie Tyler released seven Top 40 hit singles in the UK between 1976 and 1984 - numerous other singles failed to break the British Top 40 - although she continued to have hits in other countries until 2004.

Total Eclipse of the Heart was the Welsh singer's fifth Top 40 single and her biggest hit, reaching #1 in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. In the UK the single spent two weeks at the top in March 1983, and at its peak, the single was selling 60,000 copies per day.

This was the first track from Tyler's fifth studio album Faster Than the Speed of Night, and was originally offered to Meat Loaf. Fortunately for Tyler his record company turned it down. You can imagine Meat Loaf belting out this one can't you? That was a bad move by his bosses!
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