Top 100 Hits Of The Ladies Of the 80′s

From:The Backlot

#2 

“Total Eclipse Of the Heart” 

Bonnie Tyler

It was the King of Wretched Excess Jim Steinman‘s crowning achievement. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” spent four weeks at #1 in October 1983 (and for three of those weeks, he also had the #2 song on the chart with Air Supply‘s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All.”) Bonnie Tyler had a huge hit back in the 70′s with ‘It’s a Heartache,” but this would become the biggest hit of her career (although the relative chart flop “Holding Out For A Hero” has also become an 80′s classic), and has been part of the pop culture landscape for over thirty years.

Tomorrow’s clue – It’s the #1 song on this list.

In case you’ve never seen it, here’s the literal version of the video. “Mullet with headlights.”