Faster Than the Speed of Night

Faster Than the Speed of Night is a Platinum-plus album by Bonnie Tyler released on May 30, 1983. Her fifth album, and her most successful, it includes her classic global #1 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart". The album entered the UK album charts at #1, a position it held for one week. It later reached #4 in the United States. Tyler performed the song live on the 1984 Grammy Awards, nominated alongside Linda Ronstadt, Donna Summer, Irene Cara, and Sheena Easton. The album was produced by Jim Steinman, who also contributed the songs "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Faster Than the Speed of Night." Both were originally intended for the follow-up album to Meat Loaf's hugely successful Bat Out Of Hell, as was "Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)," which would get recorded by Air Supply. However, because Steinman and Meatloaf were not on speaking terms at that point, the first two tracks were given to Tyler (she would eventually record a version of "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All") as well). The remainder of the album consists of dramatically re-worked cover songs, including the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?". "Goin' Through the Motions" is a Blue Öyster Cult cover from their 1977 album Spectres, and the original version of "Straight from the Heart" was the breakout Top 10 hit - from the Platinum Cuts Like A Knife album - by Canadian rock singer/songwriter Bryan Adams.