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Bonnie Tyler (Bonnie Tyler)- English pop-rock singer with a unique voice, whose popularity dates back to the late 70s and throughout the 80s of the 20th century.
Gaynor Hopkins was born in the southwest of Great Britain into a working-class family. Since childhood, the girl had a strong character and after a quarrel with her father, she dropped out of school and got a job. During the day she worked as a laborer in a store, and in the evenings she sang in clubs. Before the age of 19, the girl managed to become famous in her native Skoulen as a good singer. Gaynor took part in a young talent competition. Having unexpectedly taken second place and received great satisfaction from her first glory, the girl dreamed of nothing more. She became interested only in her singing career. After some time, the singer put together a rock group of local musicians and began performing in clubs.
Gaynor's professional career began in 1975. At one of the performances, Gaynor was noticed by co-producers and songwriters Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolf and offered to sign a contract to record her debut album. A mandatory condition of the contract was to change the name to a sonorous pseudonym. Gaynor began performing under the name Bonnie Tyler.
The rock singer's first popularity came in the fall of 1977. First album " The World Starts Tonight"came out in the spring, but sold very poorly. To promote it, Bonnie performed on a weekly music program on the BBC with the song" More Than a Lover"The song gained popularity and reached the top 30 of the national chart. On this wave, the second super hit" Lost in France"By the end of the year it reached tenth place.
In the spring of 1978, Tyler's second album was released. Natural Force". The album significantly surpassed the debut. Taking second place in the ratings of northern Europe and, having reached 14th line in the Billboard 200, the album in sales became five times gold in the USA alone. The album's super hit " It's Heartache"climbed to third line on the Billboard Hot 100 and fourth on the British Song Chart. The single with the song eventually became multi-platinum. Songs from the album became popular" Here Am I", "Heaven" And " Living for the City".
The third album of the rock singer " Diamond Cut"was released at the end of winter 1979. The album disappointed fans. Not a single song appeared on the charts. As a result, the album itself ended up in the second hundred of the album charts. The same story happened with the fourth album in 1981." Goodbye to the Island". Disappointed with her producers, Bonnie breaks her contract with them and moves on to Jim Steinman. The transition turned out to be very successful.
Tyler's fifth album, released in the spring of 1983, turned out to be a breakthrough and topped the national album chart. The incredible popularity of the super hit " Total Eclipse of the Heart", which topped the charts on both sides of the ocean, elevated the singer to the rank of a world-class star. The songs from the album also became hits: " Straight from the Heart", "Faster Than the Speed of Night" And " Have You Ever Seen the Rain?". Video clips were shot for all the songs, which were well ranked on MTV, and the singer herself was twice nominated for " Grammy".
In 1984, a single was released with the song " Holding Out for a Hero", which reached number two in the UK and topped the Irish Music Chart.
Sixth album " Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire"was released in 1986. The album turned out to be significantly weaker than the previous one. Several compositions were included in the chart rankings" If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" - 6th place in France and " Loving You"s a Dirty Job but Somebody"s Gotta Do It" - top 40 in several European countries.
In the spring of 1988, the rock singer released her seventh album " Hide Your Heart". Songs " The Best", "Hide Your Heart" And " Don't Turn Around" hit the hit parades, but did not reach any particular heights.
Until the end of the decade, Bonnie successfully toured the world, and in the 90s she again changed producers and began singing in the Eurodisco style. Dieter Bohlen wrote several super hits, which again brought fame to the singer. The singer is still actively working, successfully recording and performing new hits.
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Holding Out For A Hero
It's A Heartache
The Best
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
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Famous British singer Bonnie Tyler, whose real name is Gaynor Hopkins, will celebrate her 67th birthday in early June. More than 40 years have passed since she became famous almost throughout the world. the site decided to show a popular rock singer.
Bonnie Tyler after 40 years
Gaynor was born in South Wales in a large family of 6 children. The future star showed a love for music from early childhood. After becoming the winner of youth competitions, she joined the group, and after a while she founded her own.
The most commercially successful single is the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart", which topped the charts in the US for 4 weeks.
The singer achieved great success in the second half of the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s. It was then that such hits as “Holding out for a Hero”, “It’s a Heartache”, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “If You Were A Woman (And I Was A Man)” saw the light of day.
After that, her career slowed down a bit. The artist returned to the stage in 2003, re-releasing some of her hits in French together with Karine Antonn.
In August 2005, her 15th studio album, "Wings", was released, which included 12 songs, including the songs "Louise" and "Celebrate". And in 2013, she released her last to date, 16th album, “Rocks and Honey.”
In the same year, the star performed at the Eurovision Song Contest from Great Britain, taking 9th place in the final.
Let us remind you that 38 years have passed since the founding of the popular one in the 80s. Previously, the editors of JoeInfoMedia showed what ex-participants and former lovers Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox look like now.
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Bonnie Tyler - birth name Gaynor Hopkins - was born on June 8, 1951 in Skewen, Neath, Wales. In addition to her, the family had three sisters and two brothers. Her father worked in a mine, and her mother, an opera fan, instilled a love of music in her children. Tyler grew up listening to Motown bands and singers such as Janis Joplin and Tina Turner.
In 1970, at the age of 19, she entered a talent competition singing Mary Hopkin's hit "Those Were the Days" and earned 2nd place. She was then chosen to sing in the group "Bobby Wayne & The Dixies" with frontman Bobby Wayne. Two years later, Bonnie formed her own band called Imagination, which has nothing in common with the 1980s British dance group of the same name, and performed with it in pubs and clubs throughout South Wales. During this period, she decided to use the pseudonym Sherene Davies, combining the names of her niece and her favorite aunt.
In 1973, Tyler married real estate agent and Olympic judoka Robert Sullivan. Two years later, the singer was noticed by Roger Bell, who helped Bonnie sign a contract with the RCA Records label. Before concluding the deal, she was asked to change her pseudonym, and she settled on the option “Bonnie Tyler.”
At The Townsman Club in Swansea in 1976, Tyler met the team of producers and songwriters, Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolfe, who became her managers, writers and producers. After her 1976 song "Lost in France" reached the top ten, Bonnie released her first album the following year, entitled "The World Starts Tonight." This was followed by the single "More Than a Lover", which entered the British Top 30, and the single "Heaven", which entered the German Top 30.
In 1977, Tyler was diagnosed with nodules on her vocal cords that were so severe that she required surgery to remove them. She was ordered not to make a sound for at least six weeks to help the healing process, but one day she broke down and screamed. This made Bonnie's voice squeaky. At first, the singer thought that she could give up on her career, but, to her surprise, the next single "It"s a Heartache" turned her into an international star. The song soared to number 4 in the UK, 3 in the US and 2 in Germany, and also topped the charts in several countries, including France and Australia.Tyler's second album, "Natural Force", was released in the US market under the title "It's a Heartache" and earned gold status.
Although international success subsequently eluded Bonnie, regional hits appeared in her repertoire from time to time. Thus, the song “Here Am I” entered the German Top 20 in the spring of 1978, “My Guns Are Loaded” settled in 3rd place in the French chart in 1979, and in the summer of 1979 “Married Men” , the theme song for the drama "The World Is Full of Married Men", entered the British Top 40. Tyler released the album "Diamond Cut" in 1979, and in 1981 she released "Goodbye to the Island". Her track "Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean" won the Grand Prix at the Yamaha World Song Festival in Tokyo.
Between 1977 and 1981, she released four albums on RCA Records, but during this time her dissatisfaction with Scott and Wolfe, who tried to market her as a pop-country artist, increased. When her contract with RCA Records expired, Tyler began working with David Aspden Management and turned to composer Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf's main songwriter, for help. Bonnie wanted to work in a rock style, and in 1982 she signed a contract with Columbia Records.
The next release, "Faster Than the Speed of Night", was presented in the spring of 1983. The track listing includes the ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart", written by Steinman. This song became a hit all over the world, number one in the UK, France and Australia, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in the US. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" earned Tyler a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 1984, she was again nominated for an Academy Music Award with the song "Here She Comes", which became the soundtrack to the restored film "Metropolis".
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Her single "A Rockin' Good Way", a duet with Shakin' Stevens, reached number 5 in the UK charts. The song "Holding Out for a Hero", from the soundtrack to the film "Footloose", was a Top 40 hit in the US and reached number 2 in the UK charts in the summer of 1985. Also, "Holding Out For A Hero", composed by Steinman and Dean Pitchford, was used as the theme for the television series Cover Up.
Following the release of the albums "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire" and "Hide Your Heart", Tyler moved to the German label "Hansa Records" in the early 1990s and released the album "Bitterblue", which lost its rock sound in favor of a pop format. This release was certified four times platinum in Norway, platinum in Austria and gold in Germany, Switzerland and Sweden.
After three albums produced by Dieter Bohlen, Tyler and her ambitions went to the Warner Music label, and in 1995 the album Free Spirit was born, which found only minor success. Her 2003 album "Heart Strings" featured cover versions of popular songs, and in 2004 her album "Simply Believe" was released. After the presentation of the albums "From the Heart" (a collection of hits), "Wings" and "LIVE", in 2010, Bonnie reminded herself of herself by appearing in an advertisement for the MasterCard payment system called "Neville", performing a parody of the song "Total" "Eclipse of the Heart".
One pound of happiness
Last weekend, a famous British singer visited Moscow on a semi-official visit. Bonnie Tyler, known for hits Holding Out For A Hero, Total Eclipse Of The Heart and many others. Now a half-forgotten star of the eighties, today Tyler continues an active creative life, with which she is quite happy. The singer told our correspondent Alexander Belyaev about this, as well as about the Tatu duet, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones and eighties fashion.
I’ve been to Moscow six times already, and this time I came to perform at a closed concert dedicated to International Women’s Day. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no time to walk around your city, which is clearly changing for the better, and go shopping. Yesterday - a concert, today - interviews and filming on TV. I was at your Star Academy (“Star Factory.” - Ed.).
- What is your attitude towards competitions of this kind?
For young artists this is not unnecessary. I myself took part in the competition for young performers in 1969. But she didn’t win - she took second place. The bonus was then £1 and did not come with a record deal as it does now. I sang the song Those Were The Days.
- By the way, this is a Russian song - “We rode in a troika with bells.”
What are you saying? I didn't know! I thought Paul McCartney wrote it.
- The English text was actually written by McCartney for his then girlfriend Mary Hopkin...
Hopkin is from Wales, like me.
But the melody is a pre-war Russian romance with Russian lyrics. Do you know any other Russian songs or artists?
- “Tattoos” are now so popular that many of us dream of banning them, supposedly they are “for pedophiles.” Don't get me wrong: I personally hate pedophiles, I would strangle them with my own hands, but this is all just music! And a very good one, at least the song that we play all the time. And this clip with a truck (“They won’t catch us”/Not Gonna Get Us. - Ed.) I love. Then, many people are nervous that they are lesbians, live together, and all that stuff that they usually say about them. Well, okay, maybe that’s true - but if they were both heterosexual, would it somehow have a positive impact on their image? And, besides, these girls are no longer children!
At one time, immoral content was also imposed on rock music, using the triad of “sex, drugs and rock and roll.”
Well, I've never done drugs! I never even drink... before going on stage. After the concert I sometimes have a drink. In general, I drink little, and mostly red wine. And in Russia they drink more vodka, just like yesterday (covering his face with his hand)... My husband and I only got to our room at five in the morning.
- What do you think about the “return of the eighties” in music and fashion?
Fashion in the eighties was completely tasteless. I, for example, looked wild with my lush curly hair, huge rings in my ears and a jacket with padded shoulders. And the music was very good, and now most European clubs are playing it again.
- Do you have any longing for that time, the time when you were world famous?
The eighties were truly the peak of my career. But even now I am satisfied with everything - both life and creativity. Recording my latest album, Heart Strings, brought me such a rare pleasure - I have never recorded another album with such excitement! I worked with a very cool orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, and my own rock band, and I also love and respect these guys. Secondly, I sang my favorite songs, “covers” - from the Beatles to R.E.M., and a lot of songs from the 80s, Richard Marx and U2. I sang the oldest of these songs a long time ago, when I didn't have a record deal and was performing with our local bands.
- You brought something of your own to famous songs...
Certainly. The thing is that the mood of some songs does not match my character. For example, Everybody Hurts (here - “Everyone suffers sometimes”) by R.E.M., sad and depressive - I don’t even have to re-sing such songs, but “re-acting” like an actor, imagining someone else in my place. I'm not a sad or depressed person, I'm very energetic and optimistic. Yes, to be honest, I'm just a happy person. “Everyone suffers sometimes...” - of course, I know this, but life does not consist of suffering alone. As we say in Britain, “every cloud has a silver lining.”
Well, Bruce Springsteen liked the way I made it... I'm on good terms with him and the musicians of his E-Street Band. By the way, I myself once worked with these guys - they are the ones who play in my song Total Eclipse Of The Heart.
In Moscow you sang at a closed event. Would you agree to sing at a completely private party, say, at a wedding? And what fee would you ask for?
Sing at weddings?.. Well, I once sang at a wedding. And relatively recently. We have one Welsh actress, Catherine Zeta-Jones, who married Michael Douglas - well, you know. Katherine is my husband's cousin. Well, they invited me and my husband, and so I sang something to them there. But I didn’t take money from them (laughs)!
