Gaynor Sullivan, born Hopkins – who is that? In the sold -out Frankfurt Alte Oper, this is probably quite tricky for every television quiz. It seems as if a greater delegation from the German fan club had traveled. Apart from the group that a sweatshirt with the inscription “Meat Loaf 1977” has spread across the balcony edge. But this gesture also finds a reference to the artist in the course of the evening. Not that the Tyler has ever made a secret out of their bourgeois name. If the singer, who was born in Skewen in Skewen in the Welsh Neath with the smoky voice, generally deals with private quite freely. Crunchy banddown in the spotlight, the blonde blonde, which has been wrapped in Hautentges in Hautentges, chips cheerfully about her origin and career: she grew up with three sisters and two brothers. Employees in a grocery store. The international singing career started in the mid -twenties. Use AI article chat with the free registration use advantages such as the notepad. This is not a subscription and not access to FAZ+ articles. You have access with your digital subscription. Thank you for your registration for your debut, Bonnie Tyler serves two briskly arranged cover versions with her rather crispy band quartet: on “Have you ever seeen the rain?” By Creedence Clearwater Revival follows “Hide Your Heart” by Kiss. Quite rocky arranged, garnished by this incredibly creaking voice. Soulig-Balladeskin as a vocalist, the record company gave her the attribute “female Rod Stewart”. Which was particularly good for the German audience. But Bonnie Tyler couldn’t quite keep up with the stylistic diversity of Rod Stewart, who woven in his repertoire with excellent -owned song material. With her former breakthrough “Lost in France” she interrupts the biographical banter. “To love somebody” from the Bee Gees Soulig-Balladesk afterwards. The next radio bars, “It’s a Hearthache”, is also not long in coming. Meanwhile, emotion is paired in the audience with excitement, standing up, sitting down and constantly clapping with throaty collective songs. And then there is the memory of your own youth in the mind. Oh, life was beautiful and carefree back then. This is how it could go on forever. The auditorium can continue to indulge in the past, Bonnie Tyler Bryan Adams’ “Straight From The Heart”, “Flat on the Floor”, “Notes From America” and “Yes I can”. She then tells the anecdote quite extensively when she insisted when she changed the record company that she would like to cooperate with the American composer and copywriter Jim Steinman, who at the time artistically steered Meat Loaf, even though she was tried to talk her out of it. The Tyler prevailed. Steinman provided her a platinum plant with stormy -acclaimed megahit “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. Küssschen from the husband’s husband A surprise is waiting for the home straight: because who knows that “Best” was first published by Bonnie Tyler, but only a little later Tina Turner wasted. The audience of Tyler’s spouse Robert Sullivan meets the audience. He comes on stage in a person to give the wife several intimate kisses, which Bonnie Tyler floats through a rich twelve clock: “Turtle Blues” – in the original by Janis Joplin & Big Brother and the Holding Company. The final “Holding Out for A Hero”, another Steinman Raffinesse, is in even higher spheres. It feels like a flöge Superman from the clouds afterwards. Bonnie Tyler married her hero in 1973.
