Her favourites were songs by Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding."I used to sing them into my hairbrush for hours and hours, and that's how it all started for me," Tyler wrote."I fell in love with singing just from doing that Then she waited for a label until RCA said it was interested.Under her new RCA-sanctioned name Bonnie Tyler, her debut album The World Starts Tonight in 1977 contained her first chart hit, Lost in France, and she was nominated for a breakthrough artist award at the Brit Awards.She then had a number three hit in 1978 with It's a Heartache, but soon drifted.She then signed with Sony and saw Meat Loaf perform Bat Out of Hell on the BBC