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伦敦电——以粗粝嗓音著称、获格莱美提名的威尔士流行歌星邦妮·泰勒去世，享年75岁。她最为人熟知的作品是1983年登顶榜单的强力抒情曲《Total Eclipse of the Heart》，而在日食和月食期间，新一代听众也纷纷被这首歌宏大动人的魅力所折服。
泰勒的家人周四在她的官方网站发布声明称，她在葡萄牙一家医院“意外离世”，此前她正因疾病在当地接受治疗。今年5月，她在法鲁的家中因紧急肠道手术住院，之后被置入药物诱导昏迷状态。
“邦妮的家人和团队心碎地宣布，邦妮昨晚在葡萄牙的医院意外去世，病因正是她此前接受治疗的疾病，”她的家人说道。
泰勒曾获得三项格莱美提名，在2013年代表英国参加欧洲歌唱大赛，最终位列第19名，并于2023年被伊丽莎白二世女王授予大英帝国勋章（MBE），这一切很大程度上都要归功于《Total Eclipse of the Heart》。得益于2017年和2024年的实际日食现象，这首歌的流媒体播放量已超过10亿次。
这首歌蝉联四周冠军，其MV播放量也突破了10亿次。2020年，音乐媒体Stereogum在重新评价这首歌时，称其为“以音乐形式呈现的灭绝级事件”。
“这是流行音乐中一场令人心跳加速、捶胸顿足、热血沸腾、天崩地裂的激情爆发。它纯粹是视觉奇观，如同烟花、激光、闪电和雷鸣。它扶摇直上，俯冲回旋，如滚筒特技般跌宕起伏，”该媒体写道。
这首歌从未真正淡出人们的视野：1995年英国歌手妮基·弗伦奇翻唱了它，2006年西城男孩乐队也进行了翻唱。2001年电影《完美盗贼》中，凯特·布兰切特开车撞向比利·鲍伯·松顿时哼唱了这首歌；2003年电影《单身男子俱乐部》的婚礼场景中出现了这首歌；2010年，单向组合在英国版《X音素》舞台上演唱了这首歌。
2024年4日的日全食期间，许多乐迷通过流媒体播放这首歌来庆祝这一天文现象，“Total Eclipse Of The Heart”也因此成为热门话题。这首歌在当日的音乐榜单上一路飙升，甚至在苹果音乐排行榜上达到了第二名。
泰勒出生时名为盖尔诺·霍普金斯，是一名煤矿工人的女儿，在斯旺西以西约7英里的威尔士斯基文市的公共住房中长大，家里的厕所还在室外。她和三个姐妹、两个兄弟一同长大。
她非常喜欢披头士乐队，第一张专辑是《A Hard Day’s Night》。她在自传《Straight From the Heart》中提到，自己13岁时买的第一张唱片是The Swinging Blue Jeans的《Hippy Hippy Shake》，并且会准时收看《Top of the Pops》节目。
她会用双轨盘式录音机录制《Top of the Pops》节目，并抄下自己喜爱的歌曲歌词。她最爱的歌手包括詹尼斯·乔普林、妮娜·西蒙、蒂娜·特纳、威尔逊·皮克特和奥蒂斯·雷丁。
“我曾经连续几个小时拿着发梳当麦克风唱歌，我的歌唱生涯就是从那时开始的。我就是在这样的过程中爱上了唱歌。现在回想起来，那时我的嗓音就已经带着沙哑的质感，但我当时并没在意，以为每个人的声音都各不相同，”她在自传中写道。
1976年，她接受手术切除了喉咙上的结节，这也造就了她标志性的沙哑嗓音。当时她改名为谢琳·戴维斯，担任一支灵魂乐队的主唱，被星探罗杰·贝尔发掘。贝尔带她前往伦敦录制试音带，之后她一直在等待唱片公司签约，直到RCA唱片表示有意签下她。
在RCA唱片为她选定的新艺名邦妮·泰勒旗下，她1977年的首张专辑《The World Starts Tonight》诞生了第一首热门单曲《Lost in France》，她也因此获得全英音乐奖突破艺人奖提名。1978年，她凭借《It’s a Heartache》登上英国单曲榜第三名，但之后事业陷入停滞。随后她签约索尼唱片，在BBC看到 Meat Loaf 表演《Bat Out of Hell》后深受触动，主动要求与 Meat Loaf 的词曲作者兼制作人吉姆·斯坦曼合作。
斯坦曼向她推荐了自己的作品《Total Eclipse of the Heart》，这首歌后来成为她第五张录音室专辑《Faster Than the Speed of Night》的首支单曲。他从自己1969年的音乐剧《The Dream Engine》中借用了一句歌词——“转过身来，明亮的眼睛”，这部作品是他在马萨诸塞州阿默斯特学院读书时创作的。他告诉泰勒，这首歌源自一个拟改编成音乐剧的《诺斯费拉图》项目。
“吉姆喜欢先录制基础节奏音轨，然后录制九遍歌曲，选出最佳版本，再像菲尔·斯佩克特那样加入所有能加的元素，”泰勒2023年在接受《卫报》采访时说道。“他给了我一盒磁带让我在酒店里听，我们都觉得第二遍是最好的。”
这首歌由E街乐队成员罗伊·比坦负责钢琴演奏、马克斯·温伯格担任鼓手，歌词讲述了对逝去爱情的沉思：“曾几何时，我的生命中充满光明/但如今，黑暗中唯有爱相伴”。
作为早期MTV的经典MV之一，这支视频在萨里郡一座令人毛骨悚然的哥特式旧疯人院中拍摄。据说，看守的狗都不敢踏入曾经用于电击治疗的楼下房间。MV画面包括慢动作放飞的鸽子、蜡烛、跳舞的忍者、跳老式摇摆舞的舞者、戴着夸张垫肩的泰勒、击剑者、体操运动员、风力特效，以及戴着泳镜被泼水的赤裸男孩。
《Faster Than the Speed of Night》获得了格莱美最佳摇滚人声表演提名，最终输给了佩特·班纳塔的《Love Is a Battlefield》；泰勒也凭借《Total Eclipse of the Heart》获得最佳流行人声表演提名，最终输给了艾琳·卡拉的《Flashdance – What a Feeling》。
泰勒之后再也没有取得过如此高的成就，但她一直活跃在影视原声领域，比如1984年电影《浑身是劲》的插曲《Holding Out For a Hero》，以及同年电影《大都会》的主题曲《Here She Comes》。
她2019年的专辑《Between the Earth and the Stars》收录了与罗德·斯图尔特、克里夫·理查德以及现状乐队的弗朗西斯·罗西的合唱作品，同年年末她还在梵蒂冈圣诞音乐会中为教皇方济各表演。
2013年，她转型尝试乡村音乐风格，在纳什维尔录制了专辑《Rocks and Honey》，其中收录了与文斯·吉尔合唱的《What You Need From Me》以及一首名为《Believe in Me》的抒情小曲。这首歌由美国词曲作者德斯蒙德·柴德和英国词曲作者劳伦·克里斯蒂、克里斯托弗·布雷德创作。《Believe in Me》被选为英国的参赛曲目，参加当年在瑞典举办的欧洲歌唱大赛。
“那里的氛围棒极了，”她2023年在接受《旧金山考察家报》采访时说道。“我每15分钟就要接受一次采访，当我站在英国国旗后面走上舞台时，我觉得看台都要被掀翻了！太震撼了，简直太棒了！”
2017年，她作为“日全食邮轮”活动的一部分，与乔·乔纳斯的乐队DNCE在海洋绿洲号邮轮上演出。当月球遮挡太阳时，他们演奏了《Total Eclipse of the Heart》。
Bonnie Tyler, who sang “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” dies at 75
2026-07-09T05:34:00-0400 / CBS News
London — Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75.
Tyler died “unexpectedly” in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma.
“Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” her family said.
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler performs at Theater am Potsdamer Platz in May 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Jakubaszek / Redferns
Tyler earned three Grammy nods, represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 – where she came in 19th – and was awarded an MBE for her services to music by Queen Elizabeth II in 2023, all largely thanks to “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which has had more that 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024.
The song spent four weeks at No. 1, the video has surpassed 1 billion views and when Stereogum reevaluated it in 2020, the music outlet declared it an “extinction-level event rendered in musical form.”
“It’s pop music as heart-pounding, chest-thumping, blood-gargling, heavens-falling passion explosion. It’s sheer spectacle. It’s fireworks and lasers and lightning and thunder. It soars and swoops and barrel-rolls,” the site said.
The song has never really gone away, covered by the English singer Nicki French in 1995 and the band Westlife in 2006. Cate Blanchett sang it while hitting Billy Bob Thornton with her car in 2001’s “Bandits,” it appeared at a wedding scene in 2003’s “Old School” and One Direction sang it in 2010 on a U.K. version of “The X Factor.”
An April 2024 total eclipse of the sun led to a “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” for many music fans who streamed it to celebrate the celestial event. The song soared up the music charts during the day and even reached No. 2 on the Apple charts.
Tyler was born – as Gaynor Hopkins – a coal miner’s daughter in public housing with an outside toilet in Skewen, Wales, about seven miles outside Swansea. She grew up with three sisters and two brothers.
She adored the Beatles and her first album was “A Hard Day’s Night.” The first song she bought was “Hippy Hippy Shake” by the Swinging Blue Jeans at 13 and watched “Top of the Pops” religiously, according to her memoir, “Straight From the Heart.”
She would record “Top of the Pops” on a reel-to-reel two-track recorder and write down the lyrics of songs she loved. Her favorites were songs by Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding.
“I used to sing them into my hairbrush for hours and hours, and that’s how it all started for me. I fell in love with singing just from doing that. Looking back, even then my voice had a husky tone to it, but I didn’t think much of it. I thought everyone’s voices were different from each other’s,” she wrote.
In 1976, she had to have surgery to remove nodules on her throat, leaving her with that trademark vocal sound. Changing her name to Sherene Davis, she was fronting a soul band when she was discovered by talent scout Roger Bell, who brought her to London for demo sessions. Then she waited for a label until RCA said it was interested.
Under her new RCA-sanctioned name Bonnie Tyler, her debut album “The World Starts Tonight” in 1977 contained her first chart hit, “Lost in France,” and she was nominated for a breakthrough artists award at the Brits Awards. She then had a No. 3 hit in 1978 with “It’s a Heartache,” but soon drifted. She then signed with Sony and saw Meat Loaf perform “Bat Out of Hell” on the BBC. Impressed, she requested to work with Meat Loaf songwriter and producer Jim Steinman.
Steinman introduced her to his song “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which would become the debut single for her fifth studio album, “Faster Than the Speed of Night.” He borrowed one of the song’s lyrics – “Turn around, bright eyes” – from his 1969 musical “The Dream Engine” written as a student at Massachusetts’ Amherst College. He told her the song was from a prospective musical version of “Nosferatu.”
“Jim liked to put down a basic rhythm track, do nine takes of the song, choose the best one and then put the kitchen sink on there, like Phil Spector used to,” Tyler told The Guardian in 2023. “He gave me a cassette to listen to in my hotel and we both preferred take two.”
Featuring E Street Band members Roy Bittan on piano and Max Weinberg on drums, “Total Eclipse” is a rumination on lost love: “Once upon a time there was light in my life/But now there’s only love in the dark,” she sings.
The video, a staple of early-days MTV, was shot in a frightening gothic former asylum in Surrey, where the guard dogs apparently wouldn’t set foot in the rooms downstairs where they used to give people electric shock treatment. The visuals included slow-motion tossed doves, candles, dancing ninjas, dancing greasers, Tyler in frighteningly big shoulder pads, fencers, gymnasts, wind machines and shirtless boys wearing swim goggles being doused with water.
“Faster Than the Speed of Night” earned a Grammy nomination for best rock vocal performance – losing to Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” – and Tyler got another nod for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in the best pop vocal performance category, losing to Irene Cara’s “Flashdance – What a Feeling.”
Tyler never reached such dizzying heights again but stayed current with such movie soundtrack singles as “Holding Out For a Hero” – from 1984’s “Footloose” – and “Here She Comes” from “Metropolis” also in 1984.
Her 2019 disc “Between the Earth and the Stars” featured duets with Rod Stewart, Cliff Richard and Status Quo’s Francis Rossi, and she ended that year performing a Vatican Christmas concert before Pope Francis.
In 2013, she switched gears to make a country-flavored record in Nashville, “Rocks and Honey,” which included the Vince Gill duet “What You Need From Me” and a little ballad called “Believe in Me,” written by American songwriter Desmond Child and British songwriters Lauren Christy and Christopher Braide. “Believe in Me” was picked to represent the United Kingdom at that year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden.
“It was an absolutely wonderful atmosphere there,” she told the San Francisco Examiner in 2023. “I was being interviewed every 15, 20 minutes, and when I walked out onstage behind the British flag, I thought the roof was going to come off! It was awesome, just awesome!”
In 2017, she joined Joe Jonas’ band DNCE for a performance on the cruise ship Oasis of the Seas as part of a “Total Eclipse Cruise.” When the moon passed in front of the sun, they played “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
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