From the iconic shoe-filled opening to Kevin Bacon angrily doing gymnastics in a warehouse, “Footloose” is an all-timer of a movie that explores youthful enthusiasm vs. repressive morality – and boy, ...

The soundtrack song everyone remembers, of course, is “Footloose.” My “Footloose” story doesn’t start with Footloose the movie, however, but with another iconic film from the early 1980s: Flashdance.

Bacon opens up to PEOPLE about the 40th anniversary of 'Footloose' as its writer, Dean Pitchford, is inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Months after the hit 1984 musical film celebrated its ...