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Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer. She is most notable for having several hits in the 1970s and 80s, including "Lost in France", "It's a Heartache", "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out For A Hero" as well as her European 2004 hit "Si demain... (Turn Around)".
With a distinctively husky voice due to damaged vocal cords, Tyler is a three-time Grammy Award nominee and three-time Brit Award nominee, and three-time Goldene Europa award winner. Tyler was also the first Welsh female artist to reach the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 music charts.
Tyler was born in Skewen, Neath, Wales to a family that included three sisters and two brothers. Her father, Glyn Hopkins, worked in a coal mine and her mother, Elsie Hopkins, (an opera lover) shared her love for music with her children, and was known to have been part of the local church choir. Tyler grew up listening to Motown music and female artists like Janis Joplin and Tina Turner. She concluded her education in the sixties and began working in the local grocery shop, then as a supermarket cashier.
(bonnie tyler/ paul hopkins)
Producers for bonnie: steve lipson $ betsy cooke
Recorded in 1981 as a b-side for the single 'sayonara tokyo', and was later used as the b-side for 'faster than the speed of night' in 1983. the two versions are actually quite different, but the same production credits are given for both. lyrics taken from careful listening.
I'm sat here all alone
Here in my one room home
No one comes 'round no more
No one knocks on my door
Was high, then came the fall
The tax man took it all
I didn't play the rules
I was a careless fool
But it's gonna get better
Feel it in my bones
Just got to hold you 'cause I'm all alone
I need your touch
I need you here to stay
This time I'll never let you get away
They laughed at all my jokes
Look around, where are those crazy folks?
I think of real good times
Those wasted partying nights
Just bring your loving home
Don't waste love on the phone
I love you yes it's true
Hell's what I've been going through
There'll be more ups and downs
Please make that turn around
Not that we've played 'away'
You're coming home to stay
And it's gonna get better
Feel it in my bones
Just got to hold you 'cause I'm all alone
I need your touch
I need you here to stay
Never ever gonna let you get away
Feel it in my bones
Feel it in my bones