Bonnie Tyler, singer of “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” dies at 75

Bonnie Tyler scores the three bestselling tracks on the iTunes Top Songs chart with "Total Eclipse of the Heart," "Holding Out for a Hero" and "It's a Heartache."

Bonnie Tyler, who topped the charts with epic 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', dies

LONDON, United Kingdom —Tributes flooded in Thursday to Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her powerful, haunting love song “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, after she died in hospital in Portugal. She was 75. With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad. Tyler’s family said on Facebook they were “heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for”. READ: Bonnie Tyler, ‘Total Eclipse of the […]...Keep on reading: Stars pay tribute to 'Total Eclipse' singer Bonnie Tyler, who died at 75

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose husky yet commanding voice made songs such as Total Eclipse of the Heart into 1980s classics, has died aged 75. The Guardian's music editor, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, remember's Tyler's greatest hits and lesser-known songs Bonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75 Continue reading...

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star whose 1983 chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” enchanted succeeding generations with its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. Tyler died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. She had been placed in an induced coma for a period but was reportedly improving last month and expected to make a […]...Keep on reading: Bonnie Tyler, ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer, has died at 75

Bonnie Tyler performs during the final of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest at the Malmo Opera Hall in Malmo. Photo: Reuters The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler's singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident.

The raspy-voiced Welsh singer died Wednesday at 75. Here are her five of her best-known songs.

Celebrities across the entertainment industry mourned the death of Bonnie Tyler at age 75, expressing affection and admiration for the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star. The singer, best-known for her chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her […]

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler passed away at eighty-five years old. She left an indelible mark on the music industry with her husky voice. Tyler achieved global fame with hits like 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'. She amassed an estimated net worth of forty million US dollars. Fans continue to celebrate her transformative ballads and theatrical performances.

Best known her power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” that topped the charts in 1983, Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star has died. She was 75 and passed away in hospital in Portugal from an illness, after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in May. Her signature voice was actually the result of an accident after not resting enough following an operation to remove nodules on her vocal cords.

Bonnie Tyler, known for her distinctive gravelly voice and the hit song "Total Eclipse of the Heart", has died at the age of 75, BBC News reported on Thursday.The unusual quality of Tyler's voice came after an accident. Following an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was advised to rest her voice. However, after screaming in anger one day, her voice changed permanently.Six years later, the Welsh singer released "Total Eclipse of the Heart", a song that highlighted her husky vocals and earned a Grammy Award nomination. Another major hit, "Holding Out for a Hero", was released soon after and helped establish her place in Britain's pop music scene. Both songs later appeared in films, television shows and advertisements.Tyler, whose other popular releases included "It's a Heartache" and "Lost in France", was born Gaynor Hopkins in south Wales in 1951. She was the fourth of six children born to a coal miner father and homemaker mother.'Egypt Were Robbed': Zohran Mamdani Says He Will Spend His Saved 6 Minutes Watching FIFA World Cup 2026 Replay | VIDEOEarly life and rise to fameTyler grew up in a four-bed council house with a large garden in Skewen village, outside Swansea. "I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little," she told The Guardian newspaper in 2012.Music played an important role in her childhood, with songs often heard on the family radiogram or sung by her mother, who performed opera numbers and "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" while doing household chores.At the age of seven, Tyler watched a musical at a local church and was inspired by Irving Berlin's song "There's No Business Like Show Business". The experience sparked her desire to perform."I wouldn't say boo to a goose, and yet there was a part of me that yearned to sing in front of people," she recalled in her memoir, "Straight from the Heart".She began her career as a teenage backing singer before releasing her own albums in the 1970s. Her major breakthrough came in the early 1980s after she began working with American lyricist Jim Steinman.Global success and personal lifeTyler impressed Steinman, who was already known for composing "Bat out of Hell" for Meat Loaf, by sending him demos of theatrical rock songs she believed matched her voice.Recalling the first time she heard his composition, "Total Eclipse", Tyler said: "I knew this was the song I had been waiting for all my life." Her recording of the track, described by Steinman as a "Wagnerian-like onslaught of sound and emotion", went on to top charts in both the UK and US.The song's lyrics, "Once upon a time, I was falling in love, ⁠But now I'm only falling apart," helped it become a global favourite, with the track later crossing more than one billion streams on Spotify.It also featured in films including "Old School" and "Bandits", television shows such as "Glee" and "Grey's Anatomy", and a Mastercard advertisement.From the 1990s onwards, Tyler found greater success in Norway, Austria and France than in Britain. She represented Britain at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for her contribution to music.Tyler married property developer Robert Sullivan, her first serious boyfriend, in 1973. "I am still very much in love with him and he with me," she said 40 years later. The couple did not have children.Tyler did not particularly like her birth name. Explaining how she chose her stage name, she told BBC Radio Wales: "I got a broadsheet newspaper and I made an effort to write all the first names I came across on one list and all the surnames on another and I went through them both and came up with Bonnie Tyler."

Her iconic song, boosted by real eclipses, has over 1 billion streams.

Bonnie Tyler, one of rock 'n' roll history's all-time great maximalist wailers, has passed away. The New York Times reports that Tyler, best known for hits like "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" and "Holding Out For A Hero," died on Wednesday at a hospital in Portugal, where she lived and where she recently went through emergency intestinal surgery. She remained in intensive care after emerging from an induced coma. Tyler was 75. The post Bonnie Tyler Dead At 75 appeared first on Stereogum.

Welsh vocalist Bonnie Tyler, whose signature husky sound propelled "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero" into enduring '80s hits...

The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler’s singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day she screamed in anger, permanently altering ​it. Six years on, the Welsh singer would release her best-known song, “Total […] The post Bonnie Tyler, singer of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, dies at 75 appeared first on nationnews.com.

'Total Eclipse of the Heart' was streamed more than 1 billion times

The Welsh vocalist had a worldwide success with the power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

Tyler rose to international fame with It's a Heartache in 1977 before reaching new heights with Total Eclipse of the Heart in 1983.

Tyler, whose releases also included "It's a Heartache" and "Lost in France," has died, BBC News reported on Thursday. She was 75.

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, known for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," died at 75 in a Portuguese hospital after an illness. Born Gaynor Hopkins, she rose to fame in the 1970s-80s, represented the UK at Eurovision 2013, and is survived by husband Robert Sullivan.

"Holding Out for a Hero" singer dies "in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for"

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose powerful hit Total Eclipse of the Heart became one of the biggest songs of the 1980s, has died at the age of 75.

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her powerful, haunting love song Total Eclipse of the Heart has died aged 75 in hospital in Portugal, her family announced Thursday. With her distinctive husky voice, tousled mane of blonde hair and black eyeliner, Tyler was instantly recognisable as the queen of the 1980s power ballad. Her death came after her family raised hopes among fans after she came out of an induced coma in hospital in Faro in Portugal, where she had undergone emergency intestinal surgery in May. Tyler's family announced Thursday on Facebook that they were "heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for". Her illness had forced the cancellation of dates on a planned European tour to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Lost in France, her 1976 breakthrough hit. Born Gaynor Hopkins in the Welsh town of Neath in 1951 where she grew up with five siblings, she little imagined the success she would have after leaving school at 16. "The best thing I did was Total Eclipse of the Heart. How can you ever possibly imagine it would still be so big today and people who weren't even born then would be singing it at karaoke?" she told the Daily Telegraph in 2025. She came from a humble background. Her father worked in the coal mines, while her mother was a housewife. But Tyler said she inherited her talent from her mum. "My mother had a radiogram and loads of 78 records, and she'd do the housekeeping while singing her head off with the windows open. People used to stand outside to listen to her, she was so amazing," she said in the Telegraph interview. Initially, Tyler worked in a grocery shop and began singing in her spare time, changing her name to Sherene Davis to avoid any confusion with another Welsh singer Mary Hopkin. In 1975, she was spotted by talent scout Roger Bell singing in a Swansea nightclub, and was signed only a few months later by RCA records, changing her name again, this time to Bonnie Tyler. Shortly afterwards she had to have surgery to remove nodules on her vocal cords, and after not resting her voice enough following the operation developed her signature sultry sound. Tyler's first major smash hit was It's a Heartache in 1978, and entering the 1980s she turned more towards rock music. But it was Total Eclipse, written by American composer Jim Steinman, which rocketed her to international fame. It's one of rock music's most famous ballads and in 2026 — 43 years after it was first released — it hit more than a billion listens on streaming website Spotify. It has sold over six million records, and the stirring iconic video has been viewed more than a billion times on YouTube. At the peak of her fame in 1984, Tyler released Holding Out for a Hero from the original score for the box-office hit film Footloose starring Kevin Bacon. During her career, she released 17 studio albums and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. And she continued to enjoy success with her music, particularly in Germany. In 2013 she carried UK hopes in the Eurovision song contest with Believe In Me only to finish 19th. A fan of Tina Turner and French rocker Johnny Hallyday, Tyler was known for her down‑to‑earth nature and for keeping her Welsh accent. Tyler was married since 1973 to property developer and former judo athlete Robert Sullivan, her childhood sweetheart. Since the 1970s, the couple divided their time between Wales and the Algarve in Portugal, a "magical place" to which she was deeply attached. She was awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to music by Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, shortly before the monarch's death. Her latest tour had been planned to finish in December in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. "I live a very normal life and don't go around with bodyguards; I'm not Mariah Carey, darling. I'm always happy to take a selfie in front of the salad counter," she told The Times in 2025. "People ask me if I get tired singing the old songs, but why wouldn't I love singing something like Total Eclipse of the Heart? As soon as I start one of those numbers, the whole audience sings it back to me — it's magic."

Legendary ‘80s pop singer Bonnie Tyler has died at 75-years-old after weeks in the hospital. Tyler’s iconic ballad, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” reached No.1 on the charts in 1983 and she followed up on its success one year later with another hit, “Holding Out for a Hero.”

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Bonnie Tyler, whose hits included the pop classics as “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” has died.

Vernon Kay and Nicole Appleton led the tributes to Bonnie Tyler following the news that the Total Eclipse Of The Heart icon died aged 75. 

Tyler earned three Grammy nods, represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013.

In the weeks leading up to the 75-year-old singer's death, she was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery and placed in a medically induced coma.

Welsh pop star earned three Grammy nods and represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, where she came in 19th

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her powerful, haunting love song 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' has died aged 75 in hospital in Portugal.

Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75  BBCBonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75  The GuardianBonnie Tyler latest: Legendary rock singer dies 'unexpectedly' in Portugal  Sky NewsBonnie Tyler, singer, 1951-2026  Financial TimesBonnie Tyler’s music was never cool – but we loved it anyway  The Telegraph

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983, and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. The post Bonnie Tyler, Who Topped the Charts with Epic ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ Has Died at 75 appeared first on Breitbart.

The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler’s singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day she screamed in anger, permanently altering it. Six years on, the Welsh singer would release her best-known song, “Total […]

Bonnie Tyler, the husky-voiced powerhouse vocalist who delivered memorable and dramatic pop-rock songs including 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' in the 1980s, has died.

Tyler remains the only Welsh-born singer to top the Billboard Hot 100 to date.

The Welsh singer, who was born Gaynor Hopkins, had made a resounding impact on Britain's pop scene

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. Tyler died “unexpectedly” in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma. “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce […]...Keep on reading: Bonnie Tyler, singer of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ dies at 75

Welsh music icon Bonnie Tyler, the voice behind global hits including Total Eclipse of the Heart and It’s a Heartache, has died aged 75 

Tyler was Grammy-nominated three times, and also received three Brit Award nominations.

The singer, best known for her hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died at the age of 75

The Welsh singer shot to global fame with her signature hit, 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', whose soaring vocals and husky voice earned her a Grammy nomination.

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. Tyler died “unexpectedly” in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said on Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalised in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency...

The singer spoke about her biggest song in her last TV appearance, just months before her sudden death, aged 75

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose powerhouse voice made Total Eclipse of the Heart, and Holding Out for a Hero global classics, has died.

Tyler died "unexpectedly" in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website.

Bonnie Tyler, whose powerhouse vocals fueled hits including "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," has died at 75, her family announced.

The Welsh singer was best known for the 1980s rock opera hit, along with other songs, including "It's a Heartache."

Legendary Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75. She achieved international fame in the 1980s, with the release of the hit single 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'.

With a voice both weathered and operatic, she minted 1980s pop anthems like “Total Eclipse” and “Holding Out for a Hero.”

After hopping between country, disco and soft rock, Tyler found her groove with Jim Steinman-penned epics, shining through even the most overblown backing tracks• News: Bonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75• From Swansea clubs to worldwide fame: Bonnie Tyler – a life in picturesBonnie Tyler had a peculiar career: two bursts of global success that seemed to have almost nothing to do with each other beyond the name that appeared on the records. Her first big British hits, 1976’s Lost in France and 1977’s It’s a Heartache, were superior examples of what writer Pete Paphides subsequently dubbed “medium wave pop”, the largely forgotten stuff that actually filled the charts and Radio One’s playlists at a time when reductive rock histories would have you believe the entire nation was gripped by punk. They were a little bit soft rock, a little bit country, a little reminiscent of reliable mid-70s hitmakers Smokie, and so catchy that no one seemed to notice that somewhere between their respective releases, Tyler’s voice had changed dramatically: possessed of a rather sweet tone on Lost in France, an operation to remove nodules on her vocal cords had caused her to develop a striking Rod Stewart-like huskiness by the time of It’s a Heartache.It looked like It’s a Heartache would turn Tyler into a huge star: it sold 6m copies, and the accompanying album made the Top 3 on the US country chart. But said success proved difficult to sustain, compounded by the fact that her record label seemed bizarrely unsure what to do with her. Get her to cover Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, as on Louisiana Rain? Aim her squarely at the easy listening market via a version of Sometimes When We Touch? Encourage her to go disco, as on the fabulously camp (The World is Full of) Married Men? Continue reading...

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75. Tyler died “unexpectedly” in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated […]

LONDON — The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler’s singing instantly recognizable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day she screamed in anger, permanently altering it. Six years on, the Welsh singer would release her best-known song, “Total […] The post Bonnie Tyler, singer of ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’, dies at 75 appeared first on Interaksyon.

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983, has died. She was 75.

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer of 1980s hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died aged 75. A statement posted to her website today read: “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated […]

‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75, it has been announced. A message was shared on the Welsh singer’s official website confirming the sad news. It read: “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as […] The post Bonnie Tyler dies aged 75 as fans pay tribute to Total Eclipse of the Heart icon appeared first on PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news.

Bonnie Tyler, 80s pop legend known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and more, dies aged 75  The GuardianBonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75  BBCBonnie Tyler latest: Legendary rock singer dies 'unexpectedly' in Portugal  Sky NewsFrom Swansea clubs to worldwide fame: Bonnie Tyler – a life in pictures  The GuardianBonnie Tyler obituary: pop singer  The Times

The legendary Welsh singer was best known for her hits 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart' and 'Holding Out For A Hero' The post Bonnie Tyler dies “unexpectedly” after “illness” aged 75 appeared first on NME.

Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler, ​famed for 1980s power ballads such as Total Eclipse of the ​Heart and Holding Out ​for a Hero, has died.

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced Welsh pop star known for “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died at 75

The beloved singer had been unwell in recent months after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery.

Tyler will be remembered for her early Eighties hits ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ and ‘Holding Out For a Hero’, but it was her ragged, expressive vocals that made her a star, writes Kevin E G Perry

The singer behind hits including Total Eclipse of the Heart, Holding Out for a Hero and It's a Heartache had suffered health troubles in recent months

The Welsh vocalist had a worldwide success with the power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

LONDON — Legendary pop singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for hits including “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” has died after weeks in the hospital, her family said Thursday.

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" singer Bonnie Tyler has died. She was 75.

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler known for hits Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, has died aged 75.

Welsh ​pop ​singer Bonnie Tyler, famed for ​1980s ‌power ⁠ballads ‌such as "Total ⁠Eclipse of the Heart" ​and "Holding ‌Out for a  Hero", ​has died at the age ​of 75, ​BBC ​News reported ​on Thursday. 

Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh pop-rock singer behind ’80s hits like “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero,” died on Wednesday. She was 75. “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was […]

The Welsh-born artist died in a hospital in Portugal following an illness.

The Welsh-born artist died in a hospital in Portugal following an illness.

The Welsh-born artist died in a hospital in Portugal following an illness.

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, best known for her hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died aged 75, according to a statement on her website.

Welsh singer and Eurovision entrant’s other hits included Footloose soundtrack smash Holding Out for a Hero• Alexis Petridis on Bonnie Tyler: She totally eclipsed her power-ballad peers, and created an astonishingly wide variety of pop• From Swansea clubs to worldwide fame: Bonnie Tyler – a life in picturesBonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer whose husky yet commanding voice made songs such as Total Eclipse of the Heart into 1980s classics, has died aged 75.A message on her Facebook page reads: “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for.” Continue reading...

In May, the Welsh singer was rushed to a hospital in Portugal for emergency intestinal surgery

A statement shared on her website said her family is “heartbroken”.

Bonnie Tyler performing in 2013Singer Bonnie Tyler has died aged 75.On Thursday morning, a statement was published on her official website, which read: “Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for.“We will issue a further statement shortly but for now ask for privacy to deal with this tragedy.”The Total Eclipse Of The Heart singer was rushed to hospital near her home in Faro in May, to undergo emergency intestinal surgery.On 6 May, the Holding Out For A Hero singer’s team released a statement on Instagram informing fans that Bonnie had “been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery”.The Welsh-born performer, who turned 75 earlier this year, had been due to tour Europe in 2026 to mark 50 years since the release of her 1976 breakthrough hit Lost In France, which charted across Europe.A week later, it was confirmed she’d been placed in an induced coma “to aid her recovery”, with her digital team sharing a new statement on her official website last week, following speculation about her condition on social media.Last month, her spokesperson said she was out of the coma but remained “very unwell and in intensive care”.The spokesperson thanked fans for their “huge outpouring of love and support” from around the world, adding that Bonnie was aware of it and grateful for the good wishes.Bonnie – whose legal name is Gaynor Hopkins – first shot to fame in the late 1970s thanks to singles like Lost In France and It’s A Heartache.In the years that followed, she became known for hits including Holding Out For A Hero, the number one single Total Eclipse Of The Heart and a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Have You Ever Seen The Rain?.Her massive hit Total Eclipse Of The Heart, written by Meatloaf lyricist Jim Steinman, saw Bonnie become the first ever Welsh person to bag a number one spot in the US.The song was inspired by, and written for a Nosferatu musical originally, with the singer telling The Guardian back in 2023 that she “understood immediately what an incredible song it was”.She later added: “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!’ I poured my heart out singing it.”Over the course of her music career, Bonnie released 18 studio albums, most recently in 2021, and was nominated for three Grammy Awards and three Brit Awards.She also represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 with her song Believe In Me, and was awarded an MBE by the late Queen Elizabeth II for her services to music in 2022.This is a developing story, check back for more updates. Related...I Just Learned What Total Eclipse Of The Heart Was Written About And I’m In Shock

The Welsh star known for songs including Total Eclipse of the Heart has died aged 75.