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.
| Title | Year | Other performer(s) credited | Director(s) | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Lost in France" | 1976 | Tyler is seen walking carelessly around the grounds of a château, and singing inside a cafe. | ||||
| "It's a Heartache" | 1978 | Tyler performs the song under a spotlight. | ||||
| "Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean" | 1979 | Tyler is seen singing on a lakeside jetty. | ||||
| "Total Eclipse of the Heart" | 1983 | 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 | 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 | 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 | |||||
| "A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" | 1984 | Shakin' Stevens | ||||
| "Holding Out for a Hero" | 1984 | 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 | 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 | 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 | In the music video, Tyler performs the song in front of a band and interactions between other people present are filmed. | ||||
| "Breakout" | 1990 | |||||
| "Fools Lullaby" | 1992 | |||||
| "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 | |||||
| "Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" | 1995 | 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 | 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 | Orlando Cubitt | ||||
| "Love's Holding On" | 2017 | Axel Rudi Pell | The video features Tyler, Johnny Gioeli and Axel Rudi Pell in a recording studio. |
| Title | Year | Performer(s) | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "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 |
| Title | Album details | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Video |
| Contains a VHS of eight of Tyler's music videos, filmed under CBS Records. | |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber The Royal Albert Hall Celebration |
| 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 |
| Contains three live performances: It's a Heartache, To Love Somebody and Sweet Child O' Mine. | |
| The Complete Bonnie Tyler | Contains the Bonnie on Tour DVD and a bonus CD of Tyler's 2005 album Wings. | ||
| Musas Do Pop |
| 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. |
| Title | Year | Role | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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] |
| Title | Year | Role(s) | Channel | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | The Kenny Everett Video Show | 1978 | Herself | ITV | Series 1, Episode 1 and Episode 6 | |
| scope=row | The Kenny Everett Video Show | 1979 | Herself | ITV | Series 2, Episode 4 | |
| scope=row | Three of a Kind | 1983 | Herself | BBC One | Series 3, Episode 1 | |
| scope=row | The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon | 1984 | Herself | CBS | Television special | |
| scope=row | Y a-t-il encore un coco dans le show ? | 1990 | Herself | TF1 | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler" | [7] |
| scope=row | 1998 | Herself | Sat.1 | |||
| scope=row | 2 Days Later with Jools Holland | 1999 | Herself | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler" | ||
| scope=row | On Show | 2005 | Herself | BBC One Wales | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler In One Voice" | [8] |
| scope=row | Zacisze gwiazd | 2005 | Herself | TVP2 | Episode: "Zacisze Bonnie Tyler" | |
| scope=row | James Bond's Greatest Hits | 2006 | Herself | Channel 4 | Television special | |
| scope=row | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | 2007 | Herself | BBC Two | Season 20, Episode 6 | |
| scope=row | Challenge Anneka | 2007 | Herself | ITV1 | Episode: "Over The Rainbow Hospice CD" | [9] |
| scope=row | Bonnie Tyler's Top 50 Power Ballads | 2008 | Herself | Television special | [10] | |
| scope=row | Hollyoaks Later | 2009 | Herself | E4 | Series 2, Episode 5 | [11] |
| scope=row | Eurovision Song Contest | 2013 | Herself | Various | Grand Final | |
| scope=row | Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell | 2015 | Herself | BBC Four | Television special | |
| scope=row | The Nation's Favourite 80s Number One | 2015 | Herself | ITV1 | Television special | |
| scope=row | Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief | 2017 | Herself | BBC One | Season 1, Episode 1 | |
| scope=row | Top of the Pops: The Story of 1985 | 2018 | Herself | BBC Four | Television special | |
| Company | Year | Promoting | Title | Theme song(s) | Region | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| Jaffa Cakes | 2023 | "Total Eclipse of the Heart (Full Moon Remix)" | United Kingdom | [14] |