Bonnie Tyler
speaker
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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Appearances
But that was the first time with It's a Heartache, strangely enough.
Before I had a chance to get my version out, Juice Newton and Ronnie Spector had already copied and released it, but they never got played because they liked my raspiness, you know, and they played my version.
And it went racing up the charts, you know, to number three, three or four in America.
Funny thing, yes.
I'm Bonnie on stage, full of it, and I'm Auntie Gaynor, Gaynor at home, you know.
And all my family call me Gaynor, of course, and my friends.
I was one of the first girls, I think I was the first Western girl,
to perform there.
And it was very, very strange, but beautiful in a way as well, because I had my own band, obviously.
I had my crew and we had a Polish crew there as well.
And we took our own catering, thank God, because in them days you had to queue for anything, you know.
We had, I believe it was the KGB taking care of us.
We were in all these massive halls, you know.
It was a bit strange because there'd be a lady on every floor of the hotels we stayed, you know.
It's a normal thing.
It was a normal thing in Russia then.
But they watch everything.
They write everything down.
Whoever goes to a room, it's all written down, you know.
But the audiences were loving it, you know, because they'd never had this before.
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