Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for her chart-topping power ballad 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has died at the age of 75.
Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for her chart-topping power ballad 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has died at the age of 75.
Tyler passed away unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness. She had been hospitalized in May for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma. Tyler's family and team are heartbroken to announce her passing, saying she died as a result of the illness she was being treated for. Tyler earned three Grammy nominations and represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, where she came in 19th.
She was awarded an MBE for her services to music by Queen Elizabeth II in 2023. The song 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has had over 1 billion streams and has been boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024. The song spent four weeks at No. 1 and its video has surpassed 1 billion views. It has been covered by several artists, including Nicki French and Westlife, and has appeared in several films and TV shows.
Tyler's early life was marked by poverty and she grew up in public housing with an outside toilet in Skewen, Wales. She adored the Beatles and her first album was 'A Hard Day's Night.
' She would record 'Top of the Pops' on a reel-to-reel two-track recorder and write down the lyrics of songs she loved. Her favorites were songs by Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding. Tyler had to have surgery to remove nodules on her throat in 1976, leaving her with her trademark vocal sound. She changed her name to Sherene Davis and was fronting a soul band when she was discovered by talent scout Roger Bell.
She then signed with RCA and released her debut album 'The World Starts Tonight' in 1977, which contained her first chart hit 'Lost in France.
' She then had a No. 3 hit in 1978 with 'It's a Heartache,' but soon drifted. She then signed with Sony and saw Meat Loaf perform 'Bat Out of Hell' on the BBC. Impressed, she requested to work with Meat Loaf songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. Steinman introduced her to his song 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' which would become the debut single for her fifth studio album 'Faster Than the Speed of Night.
' The song features E Street Band members Roy Bittan on piano and Max Weinberg on drums and is a rumination on lost love
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