Tyler rehearsing for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler has released one video album and has appeared in numerous music videos, television shows, television commercials and in one film. While Tyler was signed to RCA Records between 1976 and 1981, she released three music videos for "Lost in France", "It's a Heartache" and "Sitting On the Edge of the Ocean". She also filmed three videos for the first and second season of The Kenny Everett Video Show.

Tyler's fifth album Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983) spawned the single "Total Eclipse of the Heart", whose music video was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. Directed by Russel Mulcahy, it depicts Tyler as a high school teacher fantasizing about her students. She also released videos for "Have You Ever Seen the Rain", "Faster Than the Speed of Night" and "Take Me Back". In 1984, Tyler recorded "Holding Out for a Hero" for the Footloose soundtrack, and filmed a video at the Grand Canyon in Arizona, directed by Doug Dowdle. She also filmed a video for "A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" with Shakin' Stevens. Her 1985 music video for "Loving You's a Dirty Job (but Somebody's Gotta Do It)" is based on a couple fighting. It was recorded as a duet between Tyler and Todd Rundgren, and features Welsh actor Hywel Bennett miming his lines. In 1986, Tyler filmed a video for her single "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" which received six nominations at the 1986 Billboard Video Music Conference.[1]

In 1986, Tyler released her first and only video album The Video, featuring eight music videos from her CBS years. "The Best" became her final video with CBS in 1988. Tyler continued to release videos in the 1990s; four with Hansa and one with EastWest. Since the 2000s, Tyler has released music videos less frequently, including "Si demain... (Turn Around)" with Kareen Antonn, "Louise" in 2005, "Believe in Me" in 2013 and "Love's Holding On" with Axel Rudi Pell in 2017.

Tyler has appeared in only one film, singing the title song for The World Is Full of Married Men in 1979 during the opening credits. In 2005, BBC One Wales produced a documentary of Tyler's career titled In One Voice, which focused on her recordings in the 70s and 80s, and her album Wings (2005). Tyler has made several acting roles on television, including Three of a Kind in 1983, on French comedy sketch show Y a-t-il encore un coco dans le show ? in 1990, and Hollyoaks Later in 2009. She has also appeared in two television commercials.

Music videos

Title Year Other performer(s) credited Director(s) Description Ref.
"Lost in France" 1976 None Tyler is seen walking carelessly around the grounds of a château, and singing inside a cafe.
"It's a Heartache" 1978 None Tyler performs the song under a spotlight.
"Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean" 1979 None Tyler is seen singing on a lakeside jetty.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" 1983 None Russell Mulcahy The video was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. It features Tyler as a school teacher wandering the grounds of a boarding school at night. Young men are seen dancing, swimming, doing karate, gymnastics, football, fencing, soccer and singing in a choir. The video ends in daylight as the school principal introduces Tyler to a crowd of students, one of whom has glowing bright eyes. [2]
"Take Me Back" 1983 None Tyler plays a mistress whose henchmen bring her ex lover to the throne room as she interrogates him about how she is a better lover than his new partner.
"Faster Than the Speed of Night" 1983 None Tyler plays an older woman kissing a young muscular man in a fantasy-scape of old-Gothic style ruins (likely of Halloway Sanatarium) and a fantasy video game arcade. The video game titles influence the subsequent fantasy sequences. The man dancing energetically in black dance underwear swinging an electric guitar. Tyler is openly desirous of the "pretty boy"...who's "gotta move faster than the speed of night." Cued by various video game titles, the dancers start fighting using the guitars as swords and then are jousting on motorcycles. Tyler sings about the man pleasing her and she him. There are bonfires, more dancers, and then the arcade manager kicks Tyler and the boy out of the arcade mid-embrace. Tyler's look, the back-lighting, the choreography closely echo the "Total Eclipse" video. The man is one of the featured dancers from the previous video, and are the other boys. Here, instead of school boy innocence, there is more overt sexual imagery.
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" 1983 None
"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" 1984 Shakin' Stevens
"Holding Out for a Hero" 1984 None Doug Dowdle The video sees Tyler escaping from a burning house; the video is set primarily in the vicinity of the burning house and on the edge of the Grand Canyon – interspersed with shots of angelic background singers in white dresses. Evil cowboys dressed in black, carrying neon whips appear before Tyler, threatening her; a cowboy hero dressed in white, brandishing a revolver, appears on horseback and the evil cowboys flee on horseback, with the hero in pursuit. As the song fades out, the hero cowboy appears in front of Tyler.
"Here She Comes" 1984 None Brian Johnson The video is set in London. Tyler, dressed in a black leather dress, walks down a cobbled road lined with statues of soldiers. She occasionally looks up to see a duplicate of herself, dressed in a white dress, standing at the top of a fire escape, shrouded in shadow. The statues come to life and follow Tyler down the road. Behind them follows a black car, driven by the duplicate of Tyler. She runs away from them as she notices the statues following her, and locks herself inside a garage. The car then breaks through the doors of the garage and attempts to run Tyler over. She escapes through another door and finds herself on a street, looking up to see a spaceship in the sky. The spaceship descends, and a car appears, which Tyler enters and drives away. The duplicate chases after Tyler in her own car. Tyler drives into another building, and as the spaceship flies above the building, the duplicate drives inside as the entrance explodes. The spaceship then flies away as the animated statues look on.
"Loving You's a Dirty Job (but Somebody's Gotta Do It)" 1985 Hywel Bennett Tim Pope Todd Rundgren's lines were mimed by Welsh actor Hywel Bennett
"If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" 1986 None Stuart Orme, Jim Steinman The video features Tyler as the owner of a nightclub situated in the middle of a war-torn city. [3]
"Sem Limites Pra Sonhar (Reaching for the Infinite Heart)" 1986 Fabio Junior The video features Tyler and Fábio Jr. singing in a recording studio, interspersed with scenes of Fábio wandering the streets of London.
"Islands" 1987 Mike Oldfield
"The Best" 1988 None In the music video, Tyler performs the song in front of a band and interactions between other people present are filmed.
"Breakout" 1990 None
"Fools Lullaby" 1992 None
"Pethaino Stin Erimia (The Desert is In Your Heart)" 1992 Sofia Arvaniti George Sofoulis Tyler's appearance is archived footage from the music video for "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)"
"Call Me" 1993 None
"Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" 1995 None Randee St. Nicholas [4]
"Si demain... (Turn Around)" 2003 Kareen Antonn Vincent Egret Filmed in Québec. The video opens with Antonn sat holding a puppy outside a coffee shop as Tyler sits beside her. It periodically cuts to show Antonn's past; leaving her lover, meeting Tyler while hitchhiking, and the pair playing with a pack of Siberian Huskies in a field.
"Louise" 2005 None Thierry Vergnes, Fabien Valour Filmed in an old cargo ship wreck called M/V Ydra located in Tunisia.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" 2007 BabyPinkStar Tyler appears at the beginning of the video, on a phone call with the manager of Babypinkstar while waiting at an airport gate. She explains that she will not be able to appear in the music video as her flight has been postponed.
"Believe in Me" 2013 None Orlando Cubitt
"Love's Holding On" 2017 Axel Rudi Pell The video features Tyler, Johnny Gioeli and Axel Rudi Pell in a recording studio.

Guest appearances

Title Year Performer(s) Description Ref.
"It's a Live-In World" 1986 The Anti-Heroin Project Tyler is seen singing part of the pre-chorus in the recording studio, and later between Elkie Brooks and Nik Kershaw . She also appears as part of the chorus toward the end of the video.
"Sailing" 1990 Rock Against Repatriation Tyler is seen singing a portion of the first verse in the recording studio, and later singing parts of the chorus

Video albums

Title Album details Description
The Video
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: CBS
  • Formats: VHS
 Contains a VHS of eight of Tyler's music videos, filmed under CBS Records.
Andrew Lloyd Webber The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Universal
  • Formats: DVD
 Contains a live performance: "Tyre Tracks and Broken Hearts".
Bonnie on Tour Contains a DVD of Tyler performing concerts at La Cigale in Paris, Zaragoza in Spain, and at the 2005 Sopot Festival. It was issued in the US by San Juan Music on 2 November 2017.
Rock for Asia
  • Released: 2006
  • Label: e-m-s
  • Formats: DVD
 Contains three live performances: It's a Heartache, To Love Somebody and Sweet Child O' Mine.
The Complete Bonnie Tyler
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Axis
  • Formats: DVD, CD
 Contains the Bonnie on Tour DVD and a bonus CD of Tyler's 2005 album Wings.
Musas Do Pop
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: NFK
  • Formats: DVD
 A DVD containing seven of Tyler's music videos, and eight music videos by Olivia Newton-John.
Live in Germany 1993 Contains a DVD and CD of Tyler performing at a concert in Germany in 1993. It was re-released as a CD and DVD box in 2013 under the title Live & Lost in France.

Filmography

Films

Title Year Role Notes Ref.
The World Is Full of Married Men 1979 Herself Performing the title song during the title sequence [5]
36.15 code Père Noël 1989 Herself Performing the theme song "Merry Christmas" [6]

Television

Title Year Role(s) Channel Notes Ref.
The Kenny Everett Video Show 1978 Herself ITV Series 1, Episode 1 and Episode 6
The Kenny Everett Video Show 1979 Herself ITV Series 2, Episode 4
Three of a Kind 1983 Herself BBC One Series 3, Episode 1
The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon 1984 Herself CBS Television special
Y a-t-il encore un coco dans le show ? 1990 Herself TF1 Episode: "Bonnie Tyler" [7]
The King of St. Pauli 1998 Herself Sat.1
2 Days Later with Jools Holland 1999 Herself Episode: "Bonnie Tyler"
On Show 2005 Herself BBC One Wales Episode: "Bonnie Tyler In One Voice" [8]
Zacisze gwiazd 2005 Herself TVP2 Episode: "Zacisze Bonnie Tyler"
James Bond's Greatest Hits 2006 Herself Channel 4 Television special
Never Mind the Buzzcocks[A] 2007 Herself BBC Two Season 20, Episode 6
Challenge Anneka 2007 Herself ITV1 Episode: "Over The Rainbow Hospice CD" [9]
Bonnie Tyler's Top 50 Power Ballads 2008 Herself Television special [10]
Hollyoaks Later 2009 Herself E4 Series 2, Episode 5 [11]
Eurovision Song Contest 2013 Herself Various Grand Final
Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell 2015 Herself BBC Four Television special
The Nation's Favourite 80s Number One 2015 Herself ITV1 Television special
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief 2017 Herself BBC One Season 1, Episode 1
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1985 2018 Herself BBC Four Television special
  • A^ Additional footage of Tyler was also released on the 2009 DVD The Best of Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

Commercials

Company Year Promoting Title Theme song(s) Region Ref.
Suntory 1981 Mild vodka — "Sayonara Tokyo" Japan
Pierre Cardin 1984 Cardin Man's Cologne — "You Wear It Well" United States
Folgers 1985 Coffee — "The Best Part of Wakin' Up"
MasterCard 2010 World MasterCard "Thanks" "Total Eclipse of the Heart" United Kingdom [12]
Westpac 2012 — — "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Australia [13]
Municipio de Albufeira 2021 — "Albufeira Safe" — Portugal

Home media

Title Year Role Notes Ref.
Frankie Miller's Double Take 2016 Herself DVD edition. Interview and footage of Tyler recording "True Love" in David Mackay's studio.

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard Video Music Conference" (PDF). Billboard. 1 November 1986. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
  2. ↑ "Britain Counts On Bonnie Tyler to Play Eurovision Hero". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Bonnie Tyler – If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)". YouTube. Google Inc. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Billboard Vol. 108, No. 7". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.: 97 1996. ISSN 0006-2510.
  5. ↑ The World is Full of Married Men (DVD). Strike Force Entertainment. 2010.
  6. ↑ "IMDB Code Père Noël". Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Bonnie Tyler – Y-a-t-il encore un coco dans le show" (in French). Institut national de l'audiovisuel. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  8. ↑ "On Show – Bonnie Tyler – 30/03/2005". BBC Two. BBC. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  9. ↑ "Challenge Anneka (Challenge Anneka: The Album)". ITN Source. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
  10. ↑ "Bonnie Tyler's Top 50 80s Power Ballads". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  11. ↑ Green, Kris (15 September 2009). "In Pictures: Bonnie Tyler's 'Hollyoaks Later' cameo". Digital Spy. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  12. ↑ "MasterCard: Thanks". Creativity Online. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  13. ↑ Burrowes, Tim (21 November 2012). "Westpac brings in Bonnie Tyler to sing at couple's fantasy wedding". Mumbrella. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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