The total eclipse is coming full circle.
The total eclipse is coming full circle.
Bonnie Tyler — whose seminal hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart” remains one of the biggest songs of all time — will perform the famous track during the actual total solar eclipse that will be visible in the United States on Monday.
The Welsh vocalist, 66, will sing the megahit for passengers aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Total Eclipse Cruise ship, which will be aligned to perfectly witness the moon crossing in front of the sun, TIME reports.
“It’s going to be so exciting, ” Tyler told the outlet. “It doesn’t happen very often, does it?”
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No, it doesn’t. In fact, this is the first total solar eclipse that will be visible from coast-to-coast in America since June 8,1918. It’s the first toal eclipse to be visible from anywhere on the United States mainland since 1979.
A total solar eclipse occurs during the rare instances where Earth, the moon and the sun each line up, completely blocking the view of sun to viewers at least somewhere on Earth.
Tyler won’t be able to perform the full version of her song, which lasts nearly seven minutes in its original form.
“The eclipse of the sun lasts 2 minutes and 40 minutes, I’m told, ” Tyler told TIME. “Unlike my song. It had to be chopped about, because it was so long.”
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The song, which Tyler released in 1983, is her lone No. 1 hit. Tyler will perform the hit on the cruise with pop group DNCE, which is fronted by Joe Jonas.
