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Bonnie Tyler has died

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Re: Bonnie Tyler has died

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Post by Decabytes »

auslegung wrote: post #2

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

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

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Post by masfuerte »

nostrademons wrote: post #18
cramer4next wrote: post #11

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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 t…

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.

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Post by runako »

masfuerte wrote: post #25
nostrademons wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 t…

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.

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?

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Post by petercooper »

auslegung wrote: post #2

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

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.

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Post by misnome »

myself248 wrote: post #23
SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #5

And let us not forget "Holding Out For a Hero" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcASV2sey0

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

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