Bonnie Tyler: reviews, highlights and works

Bonnie Tyler

Musician

Forfans of 80s pop-rock, power ballads, and big steinman-style productions.
2 Reviews 2 Definitions 1 Charts

The Profile

Welsh singer with a distinctive husky voice, known for global hits like It’s a Heartache, Total Eclipse of the Heart, and Holding Out for a Hero. Collaborated notably with Jim Steinman.

Stage name: Bonnie Tyler; birth name: Gaynor Hopkins. Nationality: Welsh. Breakthrough in the late 1970s with It’s a Heartache; worldwide success in 1983 with Total Eclipse of the Heart, produced/written by Jim Steinman. Active from the mid-1970s to the present, associated with pop rock, soft rock, AOR, and adult contemporary.

Two positive reviews celebrate Bonnie Tyler’s husky, unmistakable voice and her 80s peak with Jim Steinman. Faster Than the Speed of Night and its mega-ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart get star billing, with nods to high-volume production and big arrangements. One reviewer notes some filler on the album’s back half, but overall the verdict is strong. The 1993 compilation is praised as a powerful snapshot of her golden era.

Notable Quotes

❝ A track of enormous energetic impact, to be listened to strictly at extremely high volume.

❝ Bonnie Tyler’s music is to be listened to at strictly high volume: pop, pop-rock, 80s AOR, adult contemporary, call it what you will, but it is still great music, a powerful music, determined, the kind that shakes you from within, that gives energy, grit, and a smile: songs that are immediate, direct, choruses to belt out at the top of your lungs.