Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg5pd9z2487o

98•theanonymousone•2h ago

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auslegung•1h ago

Literal music video of Total Eclipse, one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk

RIP Ms Tyler, you will be missed

funnybeam•1h ago

I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties

amiga386•29m ago

It pretty much was. It was filmed in a Victorian sanitorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holloway_Sanatorium (built 1873-1885) which is in keeping with your (and JK Rowling's) vision of public schools, in particular Hogwarts was modelled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fettes_College (built 1864-1870) in a similar architectural style.

pavlov•51m ago

There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”.

“Haaaand comes out…”

nostrademons•31m ago

If you like meta-songs, you may be interested in "Title of this song" by Da Vinci's Notebook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmUgFEFzco&list=RDHgmUgFEFz...

Decabytes•20m ago

I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny

petercooper•9m ago

Back in 1999, the UK had its first total solar eclipse for several decades and VH1 played the music video (though, not this one ;-)) on loop for an hour while it was happening.

defrost•7m ago

The back story of the writing of Total Eclipse ain't bad either: https://youtu.be/LGqYnj_Y3CI?t=70

SideburnsOfDoom•51m ago

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

nisiddharth•41m ago

Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?

AndrewOMartin•26m ago

Is it too much to ask for a Streetwise Hercules?

myself248•19m ago

Featured towards the climax of Short Circuit 2, which was huge in my childhood. What a powerhouse piece of music!

misnome•9m ago

Yes, I will never fail to associate this music with Short Circuit 2, it is also burned into my childhood memory.

nly•9m ago

I think of that movie every time I hear the song! That was one badass robot sequence.

"Suuuuure. Kidnap the humans, DESTROY THE MACHINE."

limbicsystem

urbsgpw•49m ago

My mum had a cassette with some of her songs. We'd have it on for long trips. I loved the long version of Faster than the speed of night. it's basically just "carpe diem" in a different format, but i loved her voice and the slight melancholy and almost call to action that the song brought with it. Also, the video (of the shorter version) is peak 80's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm4CgwRxw3Y

alex1138•48m ago

Wow. Holy crap.

Edit: guys, I get that it's not a "substantive comment" but there's no excuse for 3 downvotes. Get a life

parkersweb•47m ago

I once worked with a guy mixing TV programmes and live DVDs; I knew he’d been a studio engineer at one point in his career. We were re-arranging our studios one day and as I picked up a pair of NS-10s he casually said “I mixed ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ on those…”

cramer4next•34m ago

How is this hacker news worthy? Never heard of her or the song. Is from a time when people carried boomboxes on their shoulders?

tekla•25m ago

Very famous singer, multiple very famous songs, 40 yo song topped the carts during the 2024 Eclipse, was pretty much the theme song for a very small indie movie called Shrek 2.

nostrademons•25m ago

Before that. Her breakthrough album was 1977 and Total Eclipse of the Heart came out in 1982, so it was more the 8-track era. It remained a staple of radio plays (remember those?) through the 80s and 90s though, and was remade by Nikki French into a chart-topping dance version in 1995.

A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!), so many folks here would've overlapped with the radio era. A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it.

masfuerte•18m ago

I'm old enough to remember Walkmans coming out in 1979, which was the start of the end of the boombox era. Approximately no-one was using 8-track at that point.

runako•16m ago

I'm not quite that old, but didn't people look down on cassettes due to their lower audio quality? Weren't most home systems (hi-fis) still vinyl or 8-track for a while longer?

PurpleRamen•29m ago

RIP legend.

I'm curious now when this was announced. Yesterday, out of nowhere, TikTok showed me a video about someone praising "Total Eclipse of the Heart", despite not having this bubble in my profile. Kinda spooky to see the news now.

al_borland•22m ago

The version from the wedding band in Old School will forever be in my mind.

https://youtu.be/FfUU1wJKXDc

vardump•18m ago

Little by little, memories of the 1980s fade.

WillAdams•8m ago

Sadly, Jim Steinman passed away half a decade ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Steinman

I still want to see the dream realized on Broadway of a Native-American inspired musical.

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