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 | Ref. |
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"Lost in France" | 1976 | None | Tyler is seen wandering the grounds of a château, and singing inside a cafe. | ||
"It's a Heartache" | 1978 | None | The video features Tyler performing the song with a microphone in hand, under a spotlight. It opens and closes with a visual effect of water running down a glass pane. | ||
"Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean" | 1979 | None | Tyler is seen singing on the edge of a lakeside jetty, with occasional close-up shots of the lake. | ||
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" | 1983 | None | Russell Mulcahy | Tyler appears as a school teacher wandering the corridors and grounds at night, with scenes of choirboys singing, fencers in combat, and ninjas performing acrobatics. | [2] |
"Take Me Back" | 1983 | None | The video features Tyler as a powerful mistress seated on a throne, flanked by henchmen. Her lover is summoned to her amidst sequences of fighters clashing, with an owl perched nearby. | ||
"Faster Than the Speed of Night" | 1983 | None | In the video, Tyler is seen running with her boyfriend to an arcade game at a fair. The video features sequences inspired by the names of arcade games, including 'Guitar Warriors,' with a man dancing with an electric guitar, 'Bikers of the Round Table,' showcasing medieval knights jousting on motorbikes, and 'Space Punks,' with men in sporting outfits dancing. The final game, 'Heathens,' transitions to a pagan ritual-style bonfire dance. | ||
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" | 1983 | None | In the video, Tyler walks around the grounds of Waverley Abbey House at night with a candle. She opens wooden panes to let in bright light, and is later seen singing indoors, looking out through the glass. The final sequence shows her walking the grounds in daylight. | ||
"A Rockin' Good Way (to Mess Around and Fall in Love)" | 1984 | Shakin' Stevens | |||
"Holding Out for a Hero" | 1984 | None | Doug Dowdle | The video features Tyler escaping from a burning house, with scenes set near the Grand Canyon. Angelic background singers in white appear alongside a showdown between evil cowboys in black and a heroic cowboy in white. The hero, armed with a revolver, pursues the villains on horseback, and as the song fades, he confronts Tyler. | |
"Here She Comes" | 1984 | None | Brian Johnson | Set near Tower Bridge in London, the video features surreal imagery, including Tyler walking past mannequins resembling royal guards, who come to life and follow her. The video plays with two versions of Tyler, one chasing the other. It ends with a UFO appearing above London and taking off into space. | |
"Loving You's a Dirty Job (but Somebody's Gotta Do It)" | 1985 | Hywel Bennett | Tim Pope | Set in a theatre, the video features Tyler and Welsh actor Hywel Bennett as stars of a play called Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire. They have a heated argument backstage and on the roof in the pouring rain before reconciling and embracing. | |
"If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" | 1986 | None | Stuart Orme, Jim Steinman | The video opens with a monologue by an older version of Tyler, played by Mary Morris, reflecting on her youth as a singer in a club called The Dive in the fictional city of Obsidian, under siege. The video features strong feminine imagery, including people holding the female symbol, a woman walking a man on a leash, a mud pit fight, and a sequence where a character resembling Rambo transforms into Marilyn Monroe. | [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 | None | In the music video, Tyler performs the song in front of a band and interactions between other people present are filmed. | ||
"Breakout" | 1990 | None | |||
"Fools Lullaby" | 1992 | None | |||
"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 | None | |||
"Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)" | 1995 | None | 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 | None | 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 | None | Orlando Cubitt | ||
"Love's Holding On" | 2017 | Axel Rudi Pell | The video features Tyler, Johnny Gioeli and Axel Rudi Pell in a recording studio. | ||
"Yes I Can" | 2025 | None | Luke Wade | The video features Tyler performing "Yes I Can" in a corridor of hourglasses. As she sings and dances, hourglasses display photographs and video clips from her life, including family moments, early career highlights, and stage performances. |
Title | Year | Performer(s) | Description | Ref. |
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"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 |
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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 | Ref. |
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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 | Ref. |
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The Kenny Everett Video Show | 1978 | Herself | ITV | Series 1, Episode 1 and Episode 6 | |
The Kenny Everett Video Show | 1979 | Herself | ITV | Series 2, Episode 4 | |
Three of a Kind | 1983 | Herself | BBC One | Series 3, Episode 1 | |
The Magic of David Copperfield VI: Floating Over the Grand Canyon | 1984 | Herself | CBS | Television special | |
Y a-t-il encore un coco dans le show ? | 1990 | Herself | TF1 | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler" | [7] |
The King of St. Pauli | 1998 | Herself | Sat.1 | ||
2 Days Later with Jools Holland | 1999 | Herself | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler" | ||
On Show | 2005 | Herself | BBC One Wales | Episode: "Bonnie Tyler In One Voice" | [8] |
Zacisze gwiazd | 2005 | Herself | TVP2 | Episode: "Zacisze Bonnie Tyler" | |
James Bond's Greatest Hits | 2006 | Herself | Channel 4 | Television special | |
Never Mind the Buzzcocks [A] | 2007 | Herself | BBC Two | Season 20, Episode 6 | |
Challenge Anneka | 2007 | Herself | ITV1 | Episode: "Over The Rainbow Hospice CD" | [9] |
Bonnie Tyler's Top 50 Power Ballads | 2008 | Herself | Television special | [10] | |
Hollyoaks Later | 2009 | Herself | E4 | Series 2, Episode 5 | [11] |
Eurovision Song Contest | 2013 | Herself | Various | Grand Final | |
Meat Loaf: In and Out of Hell | 2015 | Herself | BBC Four | Television special | |
The Nation's Favourite 80s Number One | 2015 | Herself | ITV1 | Television special | |
Let's Sing and Dance for Comic Relief | 2017 | Herself | BBC One | Season 1, Episode 1 | |
Top of the Pops: The Story of 1985 | 2018 | Herself | BBC Four | Television special | |
Company | Year | Promoting | Title | Theme song(s) | Region | Ref. |
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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] |
Title | Year | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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Frankie Miller's Double Take | 2016 | Herself | DVD edition. Interview and footage of Tyler recording "True Love" in David Mackay's studio. |
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