# Bacon hails Bonnie Tyler as one of rock’s great voices

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kevin-bacon-pays-tribute-to-footloose-soundtrack-singer-bonnie-tyler-one-of-the-great-voices-of-rock/
- Published: 2026-07-10T14:39:42+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-11T06:13:08+00:00
- Original publisher: Billboard
- Original article: https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/kevin-bacon-tribute-bonnie-tyler-great-voices-rock-1236290519/
- Topics: Art, Culture, Health, Medicine, UK, World

## Summary

Actor Kevin Bacon has led tributes to the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose death at the age of 75 was announced on Thursday 9 July, describing her as "one of the great voices of rock". Bacon, who starred in the 1984 film Footloose, credited Tyler's track "Holding Out For a Hero" with elevating one of the coming-of-age film's most memorable scenes, remarking that he "could not imagine chicken racing a tractor to any other song."

Tyler, born Gaynor Hopkins in Neath in 1951, died in hospital in Portugal on 8 July following the illness for which she was being treated, having undergone emergency intestinal surgery in Faro in May and spent time in a medically induced coma. She rose to global fame in 1983 with "Total Eclipse of the Heart", written and produced by Jim Steinman, which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and made her the first and only Welsh-born singer to top that chart. Other tributes came from Bryan Adams, who thanked her for covering his ballad "Straight From The Heart", and Catherine Zeta-Jones, whose cousin was married to Tyler and who recalled the singer performing at her 2000 wedding to Michael Douglas.

## Coverage

- [Billboard: Bacon hails Bonnie Tyler as one of rock’s great voices](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/kevin-bacon-tribute-bonnie-tyler-great-voices-rock-1236290519/)
- [American Songwriter: Kevin Bacon Mourns the Death of the u2018Footlooseu2019 Soundtrack Icon He Calls u201cOne of the Great Voices of Rocku201d](https://americansongwriter.com/kevin-bacon-mourns-the-death-of-the-footloose-soundtrack-icon-he-calls-one-of-the-great-voices-of-rock/)

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