At 68, the singer continues to tour but not for money. He lives in a 10 million villa in the Algarve and has a considerable fortune
Bonnie Tyler makes box with the solar eclipse: sells almost five hundred times more
There is no ranking of what have been the most profitable songs in pop-rock history in absolute terms. But if someone began to work seriously in that classification, there are two issues that would surely enter the top positions: Your Song , by Elton John - according to his own confession, he composed it more or less in twenty minutes, and thanks to it he has enjoyed almost 50 years of career that has made him multimillionaire - and surely also Total Eclipse of the Heart , by Bonnie Tyler. The cold numbers do not deceive: still today the song continues to accumulate reproductions on streaming platforms - it is already approaching one billion on YouTube -, it is still broadcast on radio, it is licensed for cinema and advertising, and all that has an impact on it , author of the lyrics and music, with a cascade of money . It is not an epic ballad classic, but a golden egg hen.
That the woman with the torn voice is not at the forefront of musical activity today - as they are contemporary as Madonna - does not mean that her career has not continued, or that her work is not giving her revenue. In fact, without having had a success in years -and maybe in decades-, Tyler is a rich woman who lives a luxurious life and who, like so many other good managers of her heritage that has given the history of rock -who moreover, Gene Simmons, from Kiss, a dizzying billing machine, has guaranteed a very comfortable retirement.
At 68, he is still touring - right now he is embarking on a European tour that will take him on April 17 and 18 to Tenerife and Las Palmas, at the Open Sea Festival, and that will happen before in Madrid on January 25, in the Wizink Center-, but it doesn't do it for money or necessity, but because it feels like it . The applause of the public is addictive, and the affection of the fans is always the best rejuvenator. It is the same thing that led him to represent the United Kingdom in Eurovision in 2013 : not the desire to win, not the desire for notoriety - because he does not need it - but the desire to have fun.
That is why it has also happened this Monday through El hormiguero , the program that people will have fun . Spain, in addition, falls close to her: although born in a small town in Wales, she and her husband prefer the Atlantic breezes and, for years, have resided most of the year in a villa in the Portuguese Algarve valued at more than 10 million euros
When it comes to finding heavenly places, much influence comes from her husband, Robert Sullivan , a former Olympic judo fighter who became a real estate agent he married in 1973. The property in Portugal acquired it in the years 70 and, in addition to the pool and garden, Bonnie Tyler also has a domestic studio installed between her five rooms, in which she records and composes songs.
The first models of his collaborations with Meat Loaf - the king of 'adult-oriented rock' - and of tricks like Total Eclipse of the Heart or Holding out for a Hero were made there. Then came the millions of copies sold, royalties , wealth and smart investments.
It has never been the subject of scandals - no problems with drugs or infidelities or those things typical of the lifestyle of rock - but it has moved like a fish in the water in the real estate market and in the Stock Exchange . The marriage owns land in New Zealand and Portugal, more than 20 properties in the United Kingdom, stables for horses and farms. And, as if that were not enough, they also own a quarry. What they don't need is a mine: when Bonnie Tyler needs to extract gold, she goes to the list of license requests , and rents the rights to a song from her archive by a dying one, and then the dying is multiplied to dizzying figures.
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