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Heart Strings (Bonnie Tyler album)

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Released
  
18 March 2003

Length
  
56:56

Artist
  
Bonnie Tyler

Label
  
CMC

Recorded
  
June–September 2002

Heart Strings (2003)
  
Simply Believe (2004)

Release date
  
18 March 2003

Genre
  
Pop rock

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Producer
  
David Aspden and Matt Prior

Similar
  
Bonnie Tyler albums, Pop rock albums

Bonnie tyler heart strings full album


Heart Strings (also known as Heart & Soul) is the thirteenth studio album released by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, released in 2003. It is composed entirely of cover songs that she selected herself. The tracks were recorded with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Jenkins.

Contents

The album was first released in Denmark by EMI in 2002, before being released in Europe the next year under the CMC record label.

EMI Music Germany released a press kit with information of Tyler's track listing, as well as TV and radio promotion for the album in 2003.

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Background

Tyler visited Denmark for a photoshoot in the Thingbæk Limestone Mines, Skørping. The photoshoot is displayed in the album booklet and on the album press kit.

Promotion in Germany

A TV advertisement was published in 2003, with Tyler miming extracts of a selection of songs from the album in the Thingbæk Limestone Mines in Skørping.

Tyler also appeared on a series of TV shows in March 2003.

March 2003

  • ARD – Brisant
  • ZDF – Hallo Deutschland
  • ZDF – Volle Kanne...
  • ZDF – ZDF Morgen Magazine
  • ZDF – Leute Heute (with an interview in Tyler's home in Mumbles, Wales)
  • SAT.1 – Blitz
  • SAT.1 – Harald Schmidt Talk (talk show)
  • RTL – Exclusive (interview)
  • April 2003

  • RTL – 70er Show (5 minute reportage)
  • Promotion in other European countries

    Tyler appeared on Tubes D'un Jour, Tubes de Toujours on French channel TF1 in March 2003, and performed "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" on Swedish TV channel TV4.

    Tour

    Tyler embarked on tour prior to the release of the album.

    Personnel

  • Keyboards – David Aspden
  • Producers – David Aspden, Matt Prior
  • Engineers – David Aspden, Helen Atkinson, Alan Darby, Jan Holzner, Richard "Dread" Mann, Morten Munch, Michael Wolff
  • Assistant Engineer – Philip Rose
  • Pre-Production – David Aspden, Alan Darby,
  • Editing – Søren Bundgaard
  • Orchestra – City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Assistant – Helen Connolly
  • Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar – Alan Darby
  • Dobro – Alan Darby
  • Arrangers – Alan Darby, Nick Ingman, Karl Jenkins
  • Mixing – Nick Davis
  • Percussion – Thomas Dyani
  • Conductor, Score – Karl Jenkins
  • Cover Art – Stefan Klein
  • Cover Photo – Nils Krogh
  • Drums – Thomas Lang, John Tonks
  • Bodhran, Low Whistle – James McNally
  • Editing – Dave Meegan, Morten Munch
  • Electric Bass – Ed Poole, Paul Turner
  • Fretless Bass – Ed Poole
  • Violin, Vocals – Bonnie Tyler
  • Mastering – Tim Young
  • Background Vocals – Sam Brown, Margot Buchanan, Rita Campbell, Claudia Fontaine, Aitch McRobbie
  • Songs

    1Human Touch4:32
    2Everybody Hurts5:52
    3Amazed4:07

    References

    Heart Strings (Bonnie Tyler album) Wikipedia