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How Bonnie Tyler became the ultimate power ballad diva thanks to Total Eclipse Of The Heart

By Jo Kendall Published

With over a billion streams across YouTube and Spotify, Bonnie Tyler's hair-raising classic Total Eclipse Of The Heart might be the biggest power ballad of them all

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Bonnie Tyler dead at 75

By Paul Brannigan Published

News of the powerhouse Welsh singer's death in Portugal has been confirmed on her website

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Bonnie Tyler awakes after month-long coma

By Fraser Lewry Published

Bonnie Tyler was placed in a medically induced coma last month after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery

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Bonnie Tyler onstage in 2024
Bonnie Tyler placed in medically induced coma after emergency surgery

By Fraser Lewry Published

Singer Bonnie Tyler was rushed to hospital in Portugal for emergency intestinal surgery

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Portrait of American Rock composer, musician, and producer Jim Steinman (1947 - 2021), sitting in a large wicker chair, as he holds a boom box on his lap, New York, New York, April 30, 1981.
Nine Jim Steinman albums you should listen to and one to avoid

By Dave Everley Published

Buying guide His musical vision was rejected by everyone. Then, like a bat out of hell, he went from a nobody to being hailed as a musical genius

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Still from the famous 1922 German film Nosferatu, Bonnie Tyler and Filippo Strocchi, as Graf von Krolock perform at the 25th anniversary of Tanz der Vampire
Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart was originally written for a Nosferatu musical: “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark"

By Liz Scarlett Published

Jim Steinman wrote Bonnie Tyler’s smash power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart - once titled Vampires In Love - for an abandoned Nosferatu musical, before it once again found its home in another fang-toothed Broadway show

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Elton John, Gene Simmons of Kiss, Katy Perry and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider
10 massive pop stars who secretly appeared on rock and metal songs

By Paul Travers Published

Katy Perry, Elton John, Boy George, Billy Joel – they’ve all secretly rocked it up over the years

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"Meat Loaf was really pissed off with Jim Steinman giving me Total Eclipse Of The Heart. He said, That song was meant for me!": Bonnie Tyler on the world's favourite 'vampire love song'

By Paul Brannigan Published

With over 1 billion plays on YouTube alone, Total Eclipse Of The Heart is one of the world's most popular power ballads: no wonder Meat Loaf was annoyed at not getting to sing it

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Bonnie Tyler: the soundtrack of my life

By Henry Yates Published

Power-ballad belter Bonnie Tyler picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals that Axl Rose was "horny as hell"

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