{"id":816511,"date":"2026-08-17T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816511\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:30:16","slug":"bonnie-tylers-swansea-funeral-begins-after-coffin-arrives-to-cheers-from-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/816511\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Tyler&#8217;s Swansea funeral begins after coffin arrives to cheers from crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The punnet of strawberries that changed pop historypublished at 11:26 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:26 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1359cc41-c3af-46bf-9f71-3791b0fd9c8e.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Colin Paterson<br \/>Entertainment correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bonnie Tyler performing on the BBC's Top of the Pops in the 1970s - she's singing into a long, thin microphone on stage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3effab1b-e0a9-49bd-bce5-8e6227d2656c.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1786\" height=\"1004\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyler\u2019s trademark raspy voice was caused by a very un-rock\u2018n\u2019roll reason \u2013 forgotten strawberries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the mid-1970s, about the time of her breakthrough hit Lost in France, she developed vocal nodules due to strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The medical advice was to have surgery, which she did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her recovery involved complete vocal rest. However, one day she was going to visit her brother in hospital and on the way, realised that she had forgotten her gift of some strawberries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In her autobiography Straight from the Heart, she explained what happened next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI was so frustrated that I\u2019d have to drive all the way back home, I let out an \u2018Oh no!\u2019 scream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her consultant told her there had been permanent damage. But what could have ended her career, actually turned out to be a blessing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tyler was left with a new &#8211; more husky &#8211; voice, which she came to love. In particular the emotional depth it gave her vocal performances. She even joked that it made her sound like a female Rod Stewart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pop history &#8211; changed forever by one purchase of a punnet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The punnet of strawberries that changed pop historypublished at 11:26 BST 11:26 BST Colin PatersonEntertainment correspondent Tyler\u2019s trademark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-816511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816511","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=816511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}