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Bonnie Tyler picked her name from a newspaper

Bonnie Tyler has revealed how she came up with her stage name

Bonnie Tyler picked her name from a newspaper after her record company asked her to change it.

The 73-year-old pop veteran was born Gaynor Hopkins, but she "never really liked the name" so she started calling herself Sherene Davies when she first started out in the music industry.

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