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Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler
Genre: Pop Rock
Year: 1986
Year: 1986
"Holding Out for a Hero" is a song written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford, originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler. It was released in 1984 on the soundtrack to the film Footloose. It later appeared on Tylers Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire album. It hit #96 for the first time in UK in 1984, #2 in 1985, #69 in 1991. The opening couplet - "Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?/ Wheres the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" - could be seen as an example of the Ubi Sunt motif in literature. Read full article at wikipedia.org
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