With her career revived and taken to new heights by Faster than the Speed of Night, screenwriter/songwriter Dean Pitchford came calling for a new Tyler song for his upcoming film Footloose (Herbert Ross, USA 1984). Since getting Bonnie Tyler meant working with Jim Steinman and he was co-writing the songs for the film with diverse…

For the first time in this series, we have a song making its second appearance, as someone sees fit to rescue one of the songs from Dead Ringer. And, as everyone would have expected, this would-be rock and roll hero is . . . Barry Manilow. Interviews and reviews at the time are often shocked…

The only thing that kept “Making Love out of Nothing at All” from topping the US singles chart was that “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was already there. For two weeks in October of 1983, Jim Steinman had written and produced the top two singles on the Billboard Hot 100. The fact that he produced…