Heart played Total Eclipse Of The Heart on a New York rooftop with Jimmy Fallon during the actual total eclipse
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With a total solar eclipse sweeping across North America this week, chatshow hosts across the nation competed to see who could pay the most outlandish tribute to the event, and The Tonight Show's Jimmy Fallon came out on top.
To mark the eclipse – the first over the United States since August 2017 – Fallon and his team of crack writers engaged rock legends Heart to perform Bonnie Tyler's classic hit Total Eclipse Of The Heart during the actual eclipse, turning Jim Steinman's original song of vampire love into something that referenced both the event (the total eclipse) and the performers themselves, Heart. And, if that wasn't literal enough, Fallon sang the "turn around" part of the lyric while actually turning around.
"We have a special show tonight," said Fallon, by way of introduction. "Heart is our musical guest, and today is obviously the solar eclipse. So we thought, we have to do what we have to do. We have to sing Total Eclipse of the Heart with Heart, while watching the solar eclipse. Let's do this."
After this groundbreaking performance – which took place on the roof of the Rockerfeller Plaza in New York – Heart left the roof of the building and performed their classic 1977 hit Barracuda in the studio. Both clips can be watched here and here respectively.
In January, Heart revealed their tour schedule for 2024, with shows lined up across North America, the UK and Europe.
The group's Royal Flush tour will launch on April 20 in Greenville, South Carolina, and run through to September 22 in Morrison, Colorado. In the midst of the US run, on which they'll be joined by Cheap Trick, Ann and Nancy Wilson's band will travel to Europe and the UK for summer shows, playing a series of festival dates alongside their first arena gigs on the continent in eight years. The second run of US dates includes a trio of stadium shows with Def Leppard and Journey. Squeeze will play support at the UK shows.
(Source: www.loudersound.com)
