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Total Eclipse of the Heart - single coverjpg
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Bonnie Tyler
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Faster Than The Speed Of Night
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1983
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7"
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Power Ballad
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Jim Steinman
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Jim Steinman
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UK #1, US #1, France #1, Ireland #1, South Africa #1, Australia #1, Canada #1, Brazil #1, Norway #1,Philippines #1, New Zealand #1, Japan #1, Swiss #3, Sweden #3, Germany #16, Italy #17, NL # 24<br>''(see separate section for subsequent versions)''
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Lost In France
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Faster Than The Speed Of Night
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is a Power Ballad written and produced by Jim Steinman . It was originally performed by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler in 1983 .
It is probably Steinman's most successful commercial composition to date and Bonnie Tyler's most successful song, going to No.1 on the Billboard Charts in the United States and Canada and to No.1 in the United Kingdom , and on the Australian Record Charts . At its peak, it sold 60,000 copies per day, and approximately 5-6 Million copies in total, and was number 1 throughout (almost) the entire world charts according to Bonnie Tyler's Greatest Hits manual. It is therefore widely considered not just a Hit , but a "smash hit".
Bonnie’s career reached new heights with this release and put her in the history books as the only Welsh artist to hit the number-one slot in the U.K. and the U.S Billboard charts (Tom Jones never had a number one hit in America).
''See infobox (right) for the positions of the original)
- 1994 , Nicki French
UK #54.
- 1995 , Nicki French
UK #5, US #2, Germany #65, Japan #1, Australia #1, Brazil #1, NL #7.
- 2001 , Jan Wayne
Germany #13, Austria #6.
- 2003 , Jan Wayne.
UK #28.
- 2004 , Bonnie Tyler/Kareen Antonn (french/english) version.
France #1, Belgium #1, Poland #1, Swiss #7.
The song appears on Tyler's 1983 Album , '' Faster Than The Speed Of Night ''. At nearly seven minutes in length, an edited version was — and still is — most commonly played on radio. The radio version is just under four minutes and 30 seconds, and removes the entire third verse and trims the extended fade-out ending. The video version is about one minute longer than the radio version. The video mix of the song was released on the '' Billboard Magazine '' compilation album for 1983 .
- Nicki French released a dance remake of the song in 1994 , which was also a worldwide hit. In the U.S., French's version was a No. 2 Billboard hit and garnered frequent airplay on CHR and Adult Contemporary radio.
- TEOTH has also been rewritten for the musical '' Tanz Der Vampire .''
- At the end of 2001 it was a European dance hit by Jan Wayne .
- In November 2002, it was voted the 72nd in "The Greatest Number Ones Of All Time" in UK.
- Also in the UK, the video was voted 94th in "Greatest Music Video Of All Time" poll held by the commercial television channel Channel 4 .
- In 2003 , the song was Lampoon ed by The Dan Band in the movie '' Old School '' that featured Will Ferrell , Vince Vaughn , and Luke Wilson .
- There is a popular Anti - Drug Skit based on this song, called the "Turnaround Skit." (See External Links)
- March of 2003, Jan Wayne peak at #28 in UK charts.
- In December of 2003, a re-recorded (french/english) duet version called "Si Demain (Turn Around)" was released. It was sung by Bonnie Tyler and Kareen Antonn , and went to No. 1 in France, Belgium and Poland, selling one million copies in Europe.
- In October of 2004, Australian Tenor Peter Brocklehurst recorded this as a duet with Bonnie Tyler on his album "For You". {Link without Title}
- In 2005, Bonnie Tyler recorded an edited version for the album '' Wings ''.
- The song was released in Icelandic in 2005, entitled "Mundu mig" (Remember me) by Icelandic Idol star Heiða.
- There's a well-known video on the Internet featuring Hurra Torpedo , a Norwegian trio playing the song, using an Electric Guitar & Kitchen Furniture .
- April 2006, TEOTH live versions by Bonnie Tyler appears in cd Live Bonnie On Tour , Spain released in 23/04/2006 and in the dvd Bonnie On Tour , 07/04/2006 in France, 21/04/2006 Germany and 23/04/2006 Spain.
- Holly Sherwood , a vocalist who provided back-up vocals for Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Rory Dodd , one of Steinman's most used back-up vocalists, did the ''Turn Around'' line
- Pandora's Box , an all girl musical band formed by Steinman in 1989 to sing his songs
- Bad For Good , Jim Steinman's to date only solo album features songs very similar to Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Tanz Der Vampire , a very successful musical with music composed by Jim Steinman, includes German version called ''Totale Finsternis''
- Hurra Torpedo , a Norwegian band who in 1995 performed Total Eclipse of the Heart for a TV show using various kitchen appliances such as freezers and stoves for percussion
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