<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Music video </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Holding Out for a Hero" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Holding Out for a Hero" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for the soundtrack to the 1984 film Footloose, and later included on her 1986 album Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire . It was written by Jim Steinman and Dean Pitchford . Initially, the song only just reached the Top 100 in the UK Singles Chart, but made it to number 2 the following year, and re-entered the charts again at number 69 in 1991 . The song reached No. 1 on the Irish Singles Chart on 28 September 1985 . It reached the top 40 in the United States and Canada . </P> <P> The song's instrumental break was reused from an earlier song by Jim Steinman called "Stark Raving Love", which featured on Steinman's 1981 album Bad for Good . </P>

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