One’s life doesn’t start until they hear “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” the runaway hit power ballad from Welsh rock icon Bonnie Tyler, who died Wednesday at the age of 75 following complications with treatment for a perforated intestine.
Countless karaoke nights and rainy drives have been scored to Tyler’s inimitable song, so much so that the opening piano notes of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” might precede Tyler’s substantial legacy. But her remarkable 50-year career was marked by other notable classics like “Holding Out for a Hero” and the sensational “If You Were A Woman (And I Was a Man)” — later reworked into Bon Jovi’s catchy but inferior “You Give Love a Bad Name.”
