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Fans of singer Bonnie Tyler lined the streets on Saturday as they awaited her coffin to be transported back to her former home ahead of her funeral in Mumbles in Swansea.
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00:00I'm here today because I see Bonnie Tyler pass through Mumbles because she was such an inspiration to everybody.
00:07Her music touches a lot of people, especially me.
00:10Every time I'm going through a rough patch of mental health or anything like that, I will always put one
00:14of her songs on to upbeat my mood.
00:18I'm quite surprised at how many people came here today, but then not as well because she was such an
00:23icon.
00:24And she never forgot where she came from. She was always coming back home.
00:27She was in the generation I was in, in the 80s. Her music was quite strong then, do you know
00:37what I mean?
00:40So you grow up with that kind of music. The music was better back then than what it is today,
00:47I'm sorry.
00:50Because it felt something when they used to come out of songs like she did.
00:56When I listened to her music, her voice is so powerful, it gives me goosebumps.
01:02And I'm just glad that we didn't get to see her this year.
01:05Not even that, because she was in Shrek 2 anyways, the song.
01:09That was then my soundtrack because I grew up with that film.
01:12So her songs have been in films that I've been watching over the years anyways.
01:15Yeah, so we're from Chesterfield in Derbyshire and we've been up on holiday in Anglesey and then basically we've extended
01:25our break so that we could come here for the weekend.
01:28We're staying in Swansea, aren't we? And yeah, we wanted to celebrate Bonnie's life as it's Jasmine who's a fan.
01:35She's been a big fan for several years now.
01:38I can see Jasmine has a lovely t-shirt. Want to show it to the camera?
01:45What's your favourite song?
01:48Total Eclipse of the Heart, isn't it? You love it, don't you?
01:52It was really special, wasn't it? Really special to watch and pay our respects and celebrate her life, really.
02:00She was really such a wonderful and I think you've met her as well, haven't you?
02:06Well, you've met her once and we've seen her a few times.
02:10What she brings to everybody, you know, she was really special, wasn't she?
02:17We went to the Indigoa 02 in 2024 and we got a VIP pass, didn't we? So we could meet
02:26her and had some pictures taken with her.
02:29In my teens, her music was quite prolific. For me, it was her most iconic period in the 1980s.
02:36You know, obviously, Total Eclipse of the Heart, you know, her earliest stuff, Lost in France.
02:43It's a heartache?
02:43It's a heartache, yeah, all that sort of stuff.
02:46You know, the videos were incredible, you know, when they were done by Jim Steinman.
02:51So, obviously, you know, they were out there everywhere at that point.
02:55So, yeah, that's basically why we wanted to come today.
02:59Bye bye.
02:59Bye bye.
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