“I poured my heart out singing it.”

Muff looked at me like I was barmy and told me that Jim would never do it.

‘I just want you to ask him,’ I said."

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler performs on stage at Push Play music festival at Hipodromo de Madrid on July 30, 2021 in Madrid, Spain

Bonnie Tyler.Aldara Zarraoa/Redferns

“We came home on a high wed met Jim Steinman!

and three weeks later he sent for us again.

He played the grand piano while Rory Dodd sang ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ to me.

I understood immediately what an incredible song it was.”

That song should have been mine!

I poured my heart out singing it."

A 40th anniversary vinyl edition of the album, which debuted at No.

1 on U.K. charts and No.

4 in the U.S., is available to purchase now.