Has the lead-up to the Total Eclipse been fun? Yes, it has.
On Saturday's CBC radio, the interview with Bonnie Tyler was very entertaining. Her speaking voice sounds used up and worn out, but she had a concert coming up this week, so she must be able to sing.
She had a lot of stories - and that's because it is over 40 years ago since the 1983 release of her famous Total Eclipse of the Heart song.
The song was written by Jim Steinman, and it is said that Meatloaf thought it should have been his hit. Likely that's true. The Wikipedia entry says that there were some differences over money and Steinman went off to other things. This likely is a good turn of events as I don't know if we'd be singing it now if it had performed by Meat Loaf. What do you think?
And we do sing it a lot. In a 2013 UK survey, the song came first in a list of most popular songs to sing in the shower.
Bonnie Tyler sings it in all kinds of circumstances - she sang "Total Eclipse of the Heart" live on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship during the solar eclipse of 21 August 2017.
It could be that she has performed the song more than all of us - she has performed it at all of her concerts/performances. That's a lot more times than we've had solar eclipses of any sort.
Will we sing it today - a love song to the total eclipse we may not get to see? That's because we are we cloudy out there. It would break our hearts to not have a Total Eclipse.
Sometimes my own images seem mysterious to even me. This is a metal sculpture in Toronto - looks like a jagged stab at the sun.
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