Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (video) -

The video is famously "ridiculously glorious" for its seemingly random assortment of characters. It wasn't just a simple performance clip; it was a carefully storyboarded collaboration between Mulcahy and the song’s writer/producer, . The "scenery-chewing splendor" includes:

Perhaps the most "80s" addition, performing acrobatics in the school corridors. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Video)

Shirtless athletes performing modern dance and combat in the dark. The video is famously "ridiculously glorious" for its

If there is one music video that encapsulates the over-the-top, "more-is-more" aesthetic of the early 1980s, it is Bonnie Tyler’s Released in 1983, the video is a bewildering masterpiece of Gothic melodrama, surrealism, and enough wind machines to cause a local weather advisory. The Setting: A Haunted History "more-is-more" aesthetic of the early 1980s