Bonnie Tyler
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577 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Bonnie Tyler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, in 1988, I was recording an album with Desmond Child in Woodstock, actually in Janis Joplin's old studio.
Can we just pause?
OK, carry on.
Well, of course, Janice had died in 1969, but I was working in this studio that she used to work in, that her and her manager owned.
I was doing an album, a very budgeted album, you know, like after Total Eclipse of the Heart and Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire with the late great Jim Steinman, the record company had forked out fortunes for them, you know what I mean?
But for this next album, Desmond was given a meagre kind of budget to work for the whole album.
They only paid him really enough for seven songs.
But we ended up doing, I think it was 14 or 15.
And this song, Simply the Best, I recorded then.
And it was...
Not played, you know, nobody played my version of it.
And then two years later, Tina Turner released it.
And it was a massive hit, you know.
I always do a tribute to Tina in my show, you know, because when I was young, I was always in my bedroom with, you know, playing Ike and Tina Turner songs, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Wilson Pickett, you know, big voices I loved, you know.
I do a tribute to Tina and I do that song.
And I used to say, I did it two years before Tina, but it doesn't seem right to say that now because she's such a legend.
She was such an inspiration for all of us girl singers, you know.
She was incredible.
Absolutely the best.
Simply the best.
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