Here Comes the Sun (Eclipse of the Heart Book 2)

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And, of course, no party is complete without music. Songs about the sun, the moon, or the eclipse. Incidentally, this moon that will be eclipsing the sun will in fact be a new moon on Monday. So how could I not celebrate my favorite Duran Duran song? Back to the sun, this catchy TMBG tune should be required listening for, well, everyone ever. As you wait for the big moment or rather, big two to two-and-a-half minutes , why not learn a thing or two?

Great for all ages. Suggested by GeekMom Patricia Vollmer, this particular solar eclipse song may not be educational, but singing the refrain may be a useful reminder to don your solar eclipse sunglasses. Suggested by GeekDad Anton Olsen, this solar eclipse song celebrates not just the sun and the moon, but also the stars and the joy of being yourself. But why does that have to eliminate this catchy ditty from being considered a solar eclipse song?

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A lovely song that my kids sing yearly to celebrate the solstice at school. Meat Loaf suffered from severe stress and anger and emotional issues ; he then lost his operatic voice, prompting Steinman to leave the team. Meat Loaf accused his former managers of misjudging him during a particularly difficult time, which he got through emotionally by coaching little league softball games for his daughters.

Sadly for Meat Loaf, at the same time, the trend-busting success of his hallmark album came at a steep cost. Billboard charts and near the top of pop music charts in Australia and the U. Tyler met with Steinman in his New York City apartment in , where Steinman showed her two tracks to gauge whether they were on the same page, musically: By the time Meat Loaf had regained his voice and was ready to record again, his label was no longer willing to pay for production-heavy, expensive tracks and writers.

That included the songs he had still wanted to record with Steinman: Steinman meanwhile released songs that he initially thought up for Meat Loaf on his own solo album, Bad for Good. The repercussions of all this likely hit Meat Loaf pretty hard. The song, ever popular, has resurfaced from time to time.


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He also revealed to Playbill in another quirk about the song: While many fans of the song might like to see both Tyler and Meat Loaf perform as the moon moves past the sun, Meat Loaf is not involved. According to a U. Survey in , the song is still a top guilty pleasure for people who like to belt out with abandon when showering or home alone. Tyler did not believe that the song was radio-friendly at its full length; the song was reduced from seven minutes and two seconds to four minutes and thirty seconds.

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The power ballad [7] became Tyler's highest charting song in several countries; peaking at No. At its peak, it sold 60, copies per day, and approximately 6 million copies in total. Tyler told Record Mirror that she thought the song was about "someone who wants to love so badly she's lying there in complete darkness. Steinman said in an interview with Playbill:. Its original title was 'Vampires in Love' because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu , the other great vampire story. If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines.

It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark He also told People magazine that he thought Tyler sounded like John Fogerty , and wrote the song "to be a showpiece for her voice. I like songs that need a lot of energy. I couldn't wait to actually get in and record it. The Monster Is Loose , Steinman stated: Guarisco, also from AllMusic, retrospectively reviewed Faster Than the Speed of Night , and noted the song as an "epic ballad," describing the whole album as "rock at its most melodramatic.

Young men are seen dancing and participating in various school activities and singing in a choir. A long-running urban legend is that the boy who appears throughout the video and who shakes Tyler's hand at the end is former Italian footballer Gianfranco Zola. In a interview, Zola confirmed that he did not appear in the video.

Since the song's release, Tyler performs "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in every concert she performs. Live recordings of Tyler performing the song have been released on her live albums Bonnie Tyler Live and Live in Germany UK 7" single [27].

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In , the Electric Picnic festival announced Bonnie Tyler as part of the lineup. Since the original release in , Tyler has re-recorded the song several times for albums and subsequent single releases. Her first and most successful re-recording of the song was released in Turn Around " with Kareen Antonn.

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It peaked at number one in France and Belgium. It originally peaked at No. In the United States, French's version peaked at No.

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It enjoyed greater success in Australia, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at No. French had made her first dance version recording of "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in French remake the song as dance track — "I thought, no, it's too strong a song to go down the dance route.

You know, it demeans it almost. But then I thought well, I'll give it a go. And as soon as I heard the track, I thought it actually does work. I've [worked with] Mike Stock and Matt Aitken and it was a dream come true And then about two months later I had a call out of the blue from Mike saying the buzz will not die down on this track so we're going to re-record the beginning In the US it was the [remix] which was fast all the way through.


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Needless to say it's an upbeat song anno Top 10 in the UK. Irish boy band Westlife recorded a cover of the song on their album The Love Album. Three official remixes have been made for their version as well as a remix done by Jim Steinman , which was ultimately rejected by the record label but has surfaced on the Internet. The song was released as a promotional single in It was composed in the traditional verse—chorus form in Bb major , with Filan and Feehily's vocal ranging from the chords of C 4 to C 6. Promotional CD single [] []. The single peaked at number 36 on the Billboard Latin Pop Songs chart.

Italian singer L'Aura covered the song in Italian as "Eclissi del cuore" from her third studio album Sei come me in , which was not originally released as a single. One year later, a new version of the song, now a duet with fellow Italian singer Nek was officially released as a single, this duet peaking at number 6 on the Italian charts. A parody of the song and music video were published in , in what the fans and makers call a " literal video version ", which is a type of video that replaces the original song lyrics with humorous lyrics describing the images in the video.

Time magazine listed it as the 6th best viral video of In , Tyler appeared in an advertisement for MasterCard , performing a short parody of the song with its noted new lyric "Turn around, Neville. Warby Parker produced a parody video in anticipation of the solar eclipse of August 21, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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