Bonnie Tyler reveals her biggest career achievement

British singer Bonnie Tyler, with almost 50 years of career and several hits released since then first album in 1977decided to make a revelation about the biggest success of his career.

In a recent interview with The Guardianthe artist of 72 years old he had registered It’s heartache that year, achieving a Gold certification in the United States for the success of the single. But six years later, she would achieve global stardom with a song that would become a real hit. Classic from the 80s and has never stopped being played on radio stations around the world.

The song Total eclipse of the heart sold more than 6 million copies and its composition and signed by Jim Steinmann. At the time of its release, some rumors linked the song to Meatloaf as follows: The band intended to record the track, but when Steinman was signing on to become Tyler’s producer, the song fell into the artist’s lap.

But now, Bonnie reveals it Total eclipse of the heart was actually written for a musical: “(Jim Steinman) told me that he had started writing the music for a possible musical version of Nosferatu years earlier, but never finished it. We shot the video in a creepy old gothic asylum in Surrey. The Watchdogs they didn’t dare enter the rooms downstairs, where they gave electric shocks”reveals the singer.

And it continues like this: “Recently, a friend discovered a letter I wrote to her from New York around that time. It says, ‘I recorded a great song today. The problem is, it’s so long, I don’t think anyone will play it.’ ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ had to be cut from seven to four minutes, but everyone liked it so much they played the full album version anyway,” He said.

Rory Doddwith whom he recorded the track Bonnie Tylerobserved the singer’s vocal potential during the studio sessions: “(Jim) wrote ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ as a duet for me and Bonnie. He liked the role reversal of a female voice doing the raspy part and a man doing the pure angelic tenor.”

And he concluded: “He was like a vampire: he liked to work at night. I had been singing for 10 hours when he asked me to do my main part of the duet Eclipse. So I’m singing: ‘Turn around the bright eye…’ at 2 in the morning. It hurts, I wish my name wasn’t on “Eclipse” with Bonnie’s, but I’d give anything to answer a call and hear those words again: “Hey, Icy. I wrote a song. Do you want to come and sing?'”

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Source: Terra

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