Bonnie Tyler will launch a fortieth anniversary vinyl version of her landmark album Quicker Than The Velocity Of Night time on September fifteenth through Sony.

It’s now out there to pre-order right here, and will probably be pressed on ruby pink vinyl.

Quicker Than The Velocity Of Night time modified every little thing for Bonnie Tyler. Whereas she had scored a home Prime 10 breakthrough with Misplaced In France and then a significant worldwide hit with It’s A Heartache, her first 4 albums failed to interrupt into the UK album charts.

However then the super-charged drama of the facility ballad Whole Eclipse of The Coronary heart turned one of many defining hits of the period, because it raced to the highest of the charts and was licensed Platinum in each the UK and the US with over three million worldwide gross sales to this point.

The album was equally profitable, hitting No.1 within the UK and No.4 within the US, whereas additionally climbing album charts in every single place from Australia to Norway.

Bonnie says about recording the album in New York: “I had the time of my life engaged on the album with all of the musicians and crew and naturally Jim Steinman.”

Extra profession highlights adopted the discharge of Quicker Than The Velocity of Night time, together with additional Prime 5 hits within the mid-80s with Holding Out For A Hero and A Rockin’ Good Means, a profitable 1986 ‘Biggest Hits’ set, plus a Gold Badge Awardfrom BASCA (now The Ivors Academy) and a Eurovision marketing campaign, each in 2013.

She has continued to tour and make excessive profile TV appearances everywhere in the world, whereas 2019’s Between The Earth and The Stars turned her highest charting UK studio album in over 30 years.

Bonnie Tyler’s present resurgence continues with the discharge of her autobiography Straight From The Coronary heart on September twenty eighth. It’s out there to pre-order right here.

She’s going to then embark upon a 40 12 months ‘Whole Eclipse of the Coronary heart’ tour throughout Europe in October, which incorporates quite a few area reveals and runs till the tip of the 12 months. See right here for a full record of dates and ticket data.

Bonnie Tyler: ‘Quicker Than The Velocity of Night time’ tracklist:

Aspect A

1. ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain?’
2. ‘Quicker Than the Velocity of Night time’
3. ‘Getting So Excited’
4. ‘Whole Eclipse of the Coronary heart’

 
Aspect B

1. ‘It’s a Jungle Out There’
2. ‘Goin’ By the Motions’
3. ‘Tears’
4. ‘Take Me Again’

‘Straight from the Coronary heart’