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One woman in a suit and tie converses with another woman, whose online video has gained an astonishing one billion views.

Turn around, because Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 classic, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” has reached one billion views on YouTube. The clip, filmed in England’s Holloway Sanatorium, is the Welsh artist’s first to reach the impressive milestone.

Written and produced by Meat Loaf collaborator Jim Steinman, the track spent four weeks at No. 1 upon its release — and much of its popularity was due to the music video.  The risqué, academic-themed clip was directed by ­pioneer Russell Mulcahy, who had directed the first video shown on MTV, The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.” Tyler went on to…