'He told me he had started writing the song for a prospective musical version of Nosferatu years before, but never finished it. Around the time we were recording, Meat Loaf had lost his voice, and after it was a hit he always used to say: “Dang. That song should have been mine!”

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/27/bonnie-tyler-total-eclipse-of-the-heart-nosferatu-musical