Bonnie Tyler
Gaynor Sullivan (née Hopkins; 8 June 1951 – 8 July 2026), known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, was a Welsh singer and songwriter. Songwriter and producer Jim Steinman wrote Tyler's biggest hit, "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which was released as the lead single from her album Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983).
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Quotes
[edit]- I suppose I don't have to work but I do love working. I class myself as a working-class girl and I've never stopped working. When I'm offered shows here, there and the other, I do an awful lot because I feel other people would love to be offered what I'm offered, who am I to say no? I'm definitely working class and I always will be.
Quotes about Tyler
[edit]- I didn't write it for anyone but Bonnie.
- Jim Steinman, on the song Total Eclipse of the Heart having been written specifically for Bonnie Tyler and her voice, countering claims that he had or would have written it for Meat Loaf; as quoted in Like a Bat Out of Hell: The Larger than Life Story of Meat Loaf (2017) by Mick Wall, p. 270
