Smash hit

• 10.02.2023 10:09 UTC+01:00
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One of the great things about growing up before everything was retained for eternity on some server somewhere, is that things we wish to forget gradually fade from the memory as time passes. Embarrassing encounters; youthful imprudence; those bloody awful songs that managed to climb the music charts, and were played ad infinitum on the radio. That sort of thing.

And then someone, or something, comes along to rake it all up.

Fortunately, the media are unlikely to resurrect personal indiscretions, unless you grew up in the spotlight. But they can make you recall those bloody awful smash hiteroonies popularised by the hoi polloi. Songs such as Bonnie Tyler and Jim Steinman's flatulent Total Eclipse of the Heart, described by Fraser Morris as the first chart-topping rock power ballad of '80s Britain, and by either him or some other excitable BBC loony as The most epic song ever written. (SMH)

I wonder whether Fraser Morris was around in the '80s, to live through its repeated broadcast. And what made him think that forty years since its release was something to celebrate, other than its recession into the distant past? (thinking)

And, yes, this is a thinly-veiled excuse to post a picture of Bonnie Tyler, in a non-creepy way.