Flashback: Bonnie Tyler's Pop Masterpiece 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'
When Bat Out of Hell songwriter Jim Steinman was first approached about working with husky-voiced Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler on new music he was a little taken aback." I was primarily known for doing records for Meat Loaf and my own records, which were these thunderous, Wagnerian, almost heavy metal, epic, stormy records," he said in 1983. "I was a little bit surprised they would ask me, but my second thought it was a real challenge because of that. And I thought she one of the most passionate voices I'd ever heard in rock & roll since Janis Joplin." Related Bonnie Tyler Will Sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' During Solar Eclipse Singer will perform 1983 hit on Royal Caribbean's Total Eclipse cruise He also had an in-progress he felt would be the perfect showcase for her powerful voice that he began writing during a recent lunar eclipse. "I t...