Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer who found global fame with the 1983 power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart, has died "unexpectedly" at the age of 75, just weeks after suffering a cardiac arrest following surgery that had left her in an induced coma. In the wake of her death, the Daily Mail looks back at her long marriage to her husband of 53 years, former Olympic judo competitor turned property investor Robert Sullivan, and notes a reported connection between him and actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 to a coal-miner father and homemaker mother, Tyler grew up in a council house in Skewen, Neath, with five siblings, left school at 16 and worked in a grocery shop before singing on the local circuit. She met Sullivan, then a club manager in Swansea, in 1970 and married him in 1973 aged 22. Over a career spanning more than five decades she sold an estimated 100 million records, earned three Grammy nominations and an MBE; the couple had no children, with Tyler citing leaving it too late and a miscarriage at 40, and she attributed the marriage's longevity to having met Sullivan before she became famous.