| "Faster Than the Speed of Night" | ||||
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| Single byBonnie Tyler | ||||
| from the albumFaster Than the Speed of Night | ||||
| B-side | "Gonna Get Better" | |||
| Released | April 1983 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 6:45 (album version) 4:42 (single version) | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter | Jim Steinman | |||
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| "Faster Than the Speed of Night" onYouTube | ||||
"Faster Than the Speed of Night" is a song by Welsh singerBonnie Tyler and is the second track from her fourth studio albumof the same name (1983). It was written and produced byJim Steinman and released byColumbia Records in 1983. As the second single fromFaster Than the Speed of Night, it was the follow-up to "Total Eclipse of the Heart".
The music video for "Faster Than the Speed of Night" was filmed atWaverly Abbey located inTilford, England. Tyler's video for "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" was filmed nearby, at the grounds of Waverley Abbey House.
The video opens with Tyler taking a young muscular man to a fantasy video game arcade where they proceed to kiss passionately. The video game titles influence the subsequent fantasy sequences. The man dances energetically in black dance underwear while swinging an electric guitar. Tyler is openly desirous of the "pretty boy"...who's "gotta move faster than the speed of night." Cued by various video game titles, the dancers start fighting using the guitars as swords and jousting on motorcycles. Throughout these scenes are shots of Tyler amongst Gothic ruins as she sings about the man pleasing her and she him. The video ends with the arcade manager kicking Tyler and the boy out of the arcade.
| Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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| Ireland (IRMA)[2] | 17 |
| Norway (VG-lista)[3] | 9 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[4] | 43 |
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