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Kevin Bacon actually doesn't need you to ask him to do the Footloose dance in case you ever see him at a marriage. However he'll gladly carry out the tune for you in case you rating a ticket to one among his exhibits.
The star of the beloved 1984 musical drama took to the Palomino stage at Stagecoach Competition on Sunday to carry out a rollicking rendition of Kenny Loggins' title observe from the movie alongside his brother, Michael Bacon.
The Bacon brothers have been making music and performing in an official capability because the Bacon Brothers for greater than 30 years, they usually confirmed no indicators of slowing down as they shredded on the guitar, banged a tambourine, and sang the ode to lacing up your greatest dancing sneakers.
A TikTok video posted by the official Stagecoach account captured a phase of the efficiency, celebrating that "the legend of The Bacon Brothers is alive."
Bacon posted his personal TikTok strolling by the backstage space for the performers, who included Goo Goo Dolls, Sammy Hagar, Luke Combs, and the Backstreet Boys. "Coming into our little Stagecoach dwelling away from dwelling," Bacon stated, giddily including that he'd "by no means opened for the Backstreet Boys earlier than."
Backstreet Boys closed out the competition, delivering a rousing 90-minute tour by their hit-studded discography that culminated in Combs becoming a member of the band to sing their 1999 basic "I Need it That Method."
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Footloose marked a significant breakout for Bacon, who starred as Ren McCormack, a metropolis boy who lights up a small, spiritual Utah city together with his quicksilver strikes. Although the actor, 66, went on to star in quite a lot of profitable movies and sequence which have endured within the cultural consciousness, his Footloose function appears to comply with him like none different has.
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Bacon has gladly channeled Footloose to rejoice events like the top of the 2023 actors' strike. However he additionally opened up in 2023 about having "rejected" the celebrity Herbert Ross' movie introduced him early on, explaining it was not "what my concept of a severe actor was," as a result of on the time, "the very last thing I needed to be was a pop star."
Earlier this 12 months, Bacon stated that his "worst nightmare is to be at a marriage and the DJ places on the music" to the movie, recalling in horror how "individuals will actually kind a circle round me and clap their fingers like I'm a educated monkey."
Different headliners on the 2025 version of the nation music competition held yearly in Indio, Calif., included Zach Bryan, Creed, Jelly Roll, and, surprisingly for many who haven't been following her gradual transition to honky tonk diva, Lana Del Rey.
The "Born to Die" singer surprised her viewers Friday with a efficiency of a brand new tune titled "57.5," a reference to her "57.5 million listeners on Spotify." "I kissed Morgan Wallen / I suppose kissing me sort of went to his head," Del Rey sang, referencing the musician who courted controversy by, amongst different issues, abruptly exiting the Saturday Night Live stage after his March internet hosting stint.
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Del Rey continued, "If you need my secret to success, / I recommend don’t go ATVing with him whenever you're out West."
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