Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire

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Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire cover
Studio album by Bonnie Tyler
Released 1986
Genre Pop Rock
Length 59:09
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Jim Steinman
Professional reviews
Bonnie Tyler chronology
Faster Than the Speed of Night
(1983)
Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
(1986)
Notes from America / Hide Your Heart
(1986)


Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire is Bonnie Tyler's 1986 follow up to 1983's succesful Faster Than the Speed of Night. Like its predecessor, it is produced by Jim Steinman and it features four of his songs. Among them are the duet "Loving You's a Dirty Job (But Somebody's Gotta Do It)" (with Todd Rundgren) and the hit "Holding Out for a Hero", which was previously included on the soundtrack of the movie Footloose.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Ravishing" – 6:24 (Jim Steinman)
  2. "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" – 5:15 (Desmond Child)
  3. "Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It" (Duet with Todd Rundgren) – 7:47 (Steinman)
  4. "No Way to Treat a Lady" – 5:17 (Bryan Adams / Jim Vallance)
  5. "Band of Gold" – 5:49 (Ronald Dunbar / Edith Wayne)
  6. "Rebel Without a Clue" – 8:35 (Steinman)
  7. "Lovers Again" – 4:32 (Child)
  8. "Before This Night Is Through" – 5:21 (Beppe Cantarelli / Adrienne Anderson)
  9. "Holding Out for a Hero" – 5:48 (Steinman / Dean Pitchford)

The song "Under Suspicion" (written by Tyler, Paul Hopkins and Peter Oxendale) was included on the cassette version of the album and as the B-side to the "Loving You's a Dirty Job ..." single.

[edit] Charts

  • Norway #1
  • Switzerland #3
  • Sweden #6
  • France #15
  • Austria #23
  • UK #24
  • Germany #24
  • US #106


[edit] Album credits

  • Produced and directed by Jim Steinman
  • Associate producers: Roy Bittan, Larry Fast and John Rollo
  • Associate producer on "Holding Out For a Hero": John Jansen
  • Arranged by Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan and the Musicians
  • Backing Vocals arranged by Todd Rundgren, Eric Troyer, Rory Dodd and Ellen Foley
  • Mixed by Larry Alexander

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