New Delhi, July 12 -- LISBON - Bonnie Tyler spent the better part of June in an intensive care unit in Portugal, fighting for her life after emergency surgery for a perforated intestine. She was placed in a medically-induced coma when she arrived. She never fully recovered. Tyler died on July 9 in a Portuguese hospital at age 75, NBC News reported.

She was the voice on "Total Eclipse of the Heart." She was also the voice on "Holding Out for a Hero," on "It's a Heartache," and on a discography spanning five decades that placed her in a cohort of dramatic pop vocalists not easily categorized and not easily forgotten.

"Total Eclipse" arrived in 1983 and made no attempt to fit conventional radio architecture. Written and produced by Jim Ste...