<P> According to Meat Loaf, Steinman had written the song, along with "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", for Meat Loaf's album Midnight at the Lost and Found; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay Steinman and he wrote separate songs himself . "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was then given to Bonnie Tyler and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" to Air Supply . Tyler has denied this claim . "Meat Loaf was apparently very annoyed that Jim gave that to me," Tyler stated . "But Jim said he didn't write it for Meat Loaf, that he only finished it after meeting me ." </P> <P> Mike DeGagne from AllMusic retrospectively described "Total Eclipse of the Heart" as "one of the finest ballads ever to hit radio ." He noted the "lush instrumentation" and said that Tyler's voice "produced the perfect type of' desperate lovelorn' effect to suit the romantic lyrics ." He described Roy Bittan's piano playing as "dreamy" and described Tyler's voice as "wonderfully gritty ." Donald A. Guarisco, also from AllMusic, retrospectively reviewed Faster Than the Speed of Night, and noted the song as an "epic ballad," describing the whole album as "rock at its most melodramatic ." Jim Beviglia from American Songwriter said that Tyler's raspy vocals helped to legitimize the "melodrama inherent in the lyrics," and described the song as a "garment - rending, chest - beating (and) emotionally exhausting ballad" that suits the throes of a turbulent relationship . </P> <P> The music video for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was directed by Russell Mulcahy and was filmed on location at the Holloway Sanatorium, a large Victorian Gothic hospital near Virginia Water, Surrey, England . The video features Bonnie Tyler clad in white, dreaming or fantasizing about her students in a boys' boarding school . Young men are seen dancing and participating in various school activities and singing in a choir . </P> <P> A long - running urban legend is that the boy who appears throughout the video and who shakes Tyler's hand at the end is former Italian footballer Gianfranco Zola . In a 2012 interview, Zola confirmed that he did not appear in the video . </P>

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