{"id":638134,"date":"2026-05-12T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638134\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:01:19","slug":"bonnie-tyler-of-its-a-heartache-fame-suffers-cardiac-arrest-following-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/638134\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler of “It’s a Heartache” Fame Suffers Cardiac Arrest Following Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby Best Classic Bands Staff<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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This ad for Bonnie Tyler\u2019s worldwide breakthrough, \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache,\u201d appeared in the April 1, 1978, issue of Record World.<\/p>\n

Bonnie Tyler, the husky-voiced Welsh singer who earned worldwide pop hits including 1978\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache\u201d and 1983\u2019s \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d suffered cardiac arrest last week following emergency intestinal surgery. The May 11, 2026 news followed earlier reports last week that the singer had been placed into a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n

Reports indicate that the popular singer had first felt unwell while performing in London in March. After an examination, she is said to have recovered well enough to travel to Portugal, where she maintains a home. Upon feeling \u201csevere abdominal pain,\u201d Tyler, who will turn 75 on June 8, was taken to a hospital in Faro, Portugal, where emergency appendix surgery was performed on around May 6. Various reports on May 11 add that Tyler suffered cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated. The singer\u2019s social media team noted on May 8 that she was then \u201cput into a medically induced coma to aid her recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full post noted, \u201cThank you for the incredible outpouring of love and well wishes we\u2019ve received for Bonnie over the last few days. It truly means the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cBonnie has been put into an induced coma by her doctors to aid her recovery. We know that you all wish her well and ask for privacy at this difficult time please. We will issue a further statement when we are able to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tyler<\/a>, born Gaynor Hopkins on June 8, 1951, was brought up in Skewen, a small U.K. village near Swansea.<\/p>\n

In 1977, she recorded a song written by her managers Ronnie Scott and Steve Wolfe, \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache.\u201d It was released as a single in the U.K. and became a worldwide smash, topping the chart in several countries. It was issued in America in March 1978, reaching #3 on June 17, 1978, giving the singer her first U.S. hit. \u201cMaybe my husky voice was what that song, and my career, needed,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After a period with no follow-up success, she changed record labels and was teamed with Jim Steinman for 1983\u2019s Faster Than the Speed of Night, which included \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d similar in style to Steinman\u2019s best-selling operatic collaboration with Meat Loaf,\u00a0Bat Out of Hell, from several years earlier.<\/p>\n

The single was released in the U.K. that February and on June 12 in the U.S. On Oct. 1, 1983, it reached #1 on the Hot 100, where it remained for four weeks.<\/p>\n

A year later came another big collaboration with Steinman. \u201cHolding Out For a Hero,\u201d often referred to by its lyric, \u201cI Need a Hero,\u201d and written by Steinman with Dean Pitchford, was recorded for the smash 1984 movie musical, Footloose. Though the track reached #2 in the U.K., it peaked at just #34 in the U.S., one of six hits from the soundtrack (that topped the album chart for two months).<\/p>\n

Related: Our Spotlight Feature on Tyler<\/a><\/p>\n

Tyler\u2019s recordings are available in the U.S. here<\/a> and in the U.K. here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Best Classic Bands Staff This ad for Bonnie Tyler\u2019s worldwide breakthrough, \u201cIt\u2019s a Heartache,\u201d appeared in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[275543,275544,275545,88,216],"class_list":["post-638134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bonnie-tyler-coma","tag-bonnie-tyler-health","tag-bonnie-tyler-hits","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}