Bonnie Tyler Tributes: Kevin Bacon, Johnny Knoxville & Rod Stewart Remember “One Of The Greatest Voices Of Rock”

As fans and loved ones mourn Bonnie Tyler, Hollywood is paying tribute to the Welsh rocker.

Following the 3x Grammy nominee’s death at age 75, months after she was put into medically induced coma resulting from an emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. Kevin Bacon, Johnny Knoxville and Rod Stewart were among those to remember Tyler’s life, legacy and music.

“One of the great voices of rock,” Bacon told Entertainment Weekly in a statement of Tyler, who recorded her 1984 single “Holding Out for a Hero” for the Footloose soundtrack. “I could not imagine chicken-racing a tractor to any other song. RIP.”

After the beloved song was also featured in Jackass: Best and Last, the final installment of the stunt-comedy franchise now in theaters, Knoxville expressed his appreciation for Tyler. “Bonnie Tyler, thanks for letting ur music be a part of Jackass. RIP,” he wrote on his Instagram Story.

Stewart, who collaborated with Tyler on her penultimate 2019 album Between the Earth and the Stars, paid musical tribute to his friend. “We lost a good friend of mine in the last 24 hours, Bonnie Tyler,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said before launching into her 1977 hit “It’s a Heartache” with Jools Holland in Scotland.

Tyler died on Wednesday in a Portugal hospital, according to a statement on her website. “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in a hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” the statement read.