IMac (late 2009) with Yosemite ran slowly now won't boot; stuck on Apple logo loading

I've been using my iMac less and less over the past weeks mainly because I have to much to do and can do most of my work on my Macbook Air, but today I had to get an old file of my iMac and when I woke it up from sleep it wouldn't run as fast as normal but instead so laggy that it felt exaggerated, so after waiting a couple of minutes while it did one thing per minute I understood that it wouldn't blow over on it's own, so I tried to restart it bur iTunes was syncing with my phone (and the chunkiness made it impossible to stop) so I forced it eventually to shut down by holding the power button. Now it is stuck on the Apple start-up logo but with a loading bar underneath that has been stuck on more or less 49% for a long while, I manually shut it down once more but it is still stuck on the same place. I have also noticed that it is extremely warm on the back. I have no idea if this helps but I wasn't home the whole last week and the iMac was on during that time + my window is on the sunny side so it might have been damaged by the sun. I have no idea whatsoever what to do, I'd appreciate any help I could get. Thanks in advance.

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I have no idea when to press shift because my sound is turned off, I can't turn it on in Recovery Partition mode, help? (Sorry for being so helpless):
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