Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer famous for her husky voice and the 1980s hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart", has died aged 75. She died after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in Portugal earlier this year, having been placed into an induced coma in May and remaining seriously ill in intensive care. Her death marks the end of a career spanning some 50 years and closes the story of a shy girl from a Neath council house who became a global star.

Born Gaynor Hopkins in Neath, she was discovered by talent scout Roger Bell in a Swansea club after seven years gigging at rugby and working men's clubs. Her first single, "Lost in France", came in 1977, but it was "Total Eclipse of the Heart", written by Jim Steinman and released five years later, that transformed her life, topping the UK chart for two weeks and the US chart for four. Other hits included "Holding Out for a Hero", "It's a Heartache" and "Together". She was nominated for three Grammys, represented the UK at Eurovision in 2013, and received an MBE for services to music in 2023. This year "Total Eclipse of the Heart" passed a billion streams on Spotify.