Bonnie Tyler has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, for emergency intestinal surgery, and the operation went well. The 74-year-old singer is now recuperating after the procedure, which interrupted her Jubilee Tour as she celebrated 50 years in music.
Tyler, who broke through in 1976 with Lost In France, has kept performing well into the 2020s and was touring while splitting her time between homes in Wales and Portugal. She also represented the U.K. at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 with Believe In Me, but it is Total Eclipse of the Heart that has kept returning to the public ear, including a No. 2 run on the U.S. iTunes charts ahead of the total solar eclipse in April 2024 and a first-time No. 84 placement on YouTube’s top 100 music video chart that same month.
Her career has often been framed by stamina as much as by hits. In January 2025, Tyler said touring kept her going and that she had never stopped working, and that same sense of momentum has carried her from the club scene in Swansea to international stages. The current hospitalization does not change the larger fact that she has remained a working performer across five decades, even as health has now forced her off the road, at least for the moment.
The tension is in how quickly that road will reopen. Tyler and Robert Sullivan have been married since July 1973, and she has spoken about the life they built together between Wales and Portugal; the surgery may be over, but the immediate question is whether recovery will allow her to return to the Jubilee Tour or whether the schedule now has to give way to the hospital bed.
For now, the answer is simple: the operation succeeded, and Bonnie Tyler is recovering.
