Samantha Masters

Bonnie Tyler’s family announced her death at 75 following complications from emergency surgery in Portugal. The article revisits her earlier account of friendly disagreements with Meat Loaf over the hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, originally offered to her by songwriter Jim Steinman during a period when Meat Loaf had lost his voice. Tyler described their exchanges as good‑natured, and she had previously paid a warm tribute to Meat Loaf after his death in 2022.