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.
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.
The video was filmed at Holloway Sanatorium. It features Tyler as a school teacher wandering the grounds of a boarding school at night. Young men are seen dancing, swimming, doing karate, gymnastics, football, fencing, soccer and singing in a choir. The video ends in daylight as the school principal introduces Tyler to a crowd of students, one of whom has glowing bright eyes.
Tyler plays a mistress whose henchmen bring her ex lover to the throne room as she interrogates him about how she is a better lover than his new partner.
Tyler plays an older woman kissing a young muscular man in a fantasy-scape of old-Gothic style ruins (likely of Halloway Sanatarium) and a fantasy video game arcade. The video game titles influence the subsequent fantasy sequences. The man dancing energetically in black dance underwear swinging an electric guitar. Tyler is openly desirous of the "pretty boy"...who's "gotta move faster than the speed of night." Cued by various video game titles, the dancers start fighting using the guitars as swords and then are jousting on motorcycles. Tyler sings about the man pleasing her and she him. There are bonfires, more dancers, and then the arcade manager kicks Tyler and the boy out of the arcade mid-embrace. Tyler's look, the back-lighting, the choreography closely echo the "Total Eclipse" video. The man is one of the featured dancers from the previous video, and are the other boys. Here, instead of school boy innocence, there is more overt sexual imagery.
The video sees Tyler escaping from a burning house; the video is set primarily in the vicinity of the burning house and on the edge of the Grand Canyon – interspersed with shots of angelic background singers in white dresses. Evil cowboys dressed in black, carrying neon whips appear before Tyler, threatening her; a cowboy hero dressed in white, brandishing a revolver, appears on horseback and the evil cowboys flee on horseback, with the hero in pursuit. As the song fades out, the hero cowboy appears in front of Tyler.
The video is set in London. Tyler, dressed in a black leather dress, walks down a cobbled road lined with statues of soldiers. She occasionally looks up to see a duplicate of herself, dressed in a white dress, standing at the top of a fire escape, shrouded in shadow. The statues come to life and follow Tyler down the road. Behind them follows a black car, driven by the duplicate of Tyler. She runs away from them as she notices the statues following her, and locks herself inside a garage. The car then breaks through the doors of the garage and attempts to run Tyler over. She escapes through another door and finds herself on a street, looking up to see a spaceship in the sky. The spaceship descends, and a car appears, which Tyler enters and drives away. The duplicate chases after Tyler in her own car. Tyler drives into another building, and as the spaceship flies above the building, the duplicate drives inside as the entrance explodes. The spaceship then flies away as the animated statues look on.
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.
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.
The video features Tyler, Johnny Gioeli and Axel Rudi Pell in a recording studio.
Guest appearances
Title
Year
Performer(s)
Description
Ref.
"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.
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.
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.