Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire

Infobox Album |
Name = Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
Type = Studio album
Artist = Bonnie Tyler


Released = 1986
Recorded = 1985–1986
Genre = Pop rock, Wagnerian Rock
Length = 59:09
Label = Columbia Records
Producer = Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan, John Jansen, Larry Fast, John Rollo
Reviews = *Allmusic:Rating|2|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:27jyeaz04xg7 link]
Last album = "Faster Than the Speed of Night"
1983
This album = "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire"
1986
Next album = "Hide Your Heart" / "Notes from America"
1988

"Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire" is Bonnie Tyler's 1986 follow up to 1983's successful "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 "Ravishing," 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". "Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire" is the sixth album by Bonnie Tyler.

Track listing

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

::Arranged by Jim Steinman, Roy Bittan and the Musicians::Backing Vocals arranged by Todd Rundgren, Eric Troyer, Rory Dodd and Ellen Foley

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 ..." and "If You Were a Woman" singles.

"Before This Night Is Through" did not appear on the LP-version of the album.

An instrumental of "Ravishing" would be used as the theme song to the 1985-1987 CBS Saturday morning animated series, Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling.

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Album credits

*Lead Vocals: Bonnie Tyler
*Guitars (Tracks 1-8): Sid McGinnis
*Guitars (Tracks 3, 5, 6): Eddie Martinez
*Guitars (Tracks 8-9): Hiram Bullock
*Bass: Steve Buslowe
*Piano and Synthesizers: Roy Bittan
*Piano, Synthesizers and Linn Drums (Track 9): Sterling Smith
*Synthesizers and Programming (Tracks 1-8): Larry Fast
*Synthesizers and Programming (Track 9): Phil Shenale
*Saxophone (Track 2): Lenny Pickett
*Horns (Track 9): Tom Malone, Michael Brecker, Alan Rubin, Lew Soloff, Jim Pugh, Dave Taylor
*Drums (Tracks 4-5, 8): Max Weinberg
*Drums (Tracks 1-3, 5-6): Jimmy Bralower
*Simmons and Linn Drums (Track 9): Art Wood
*Additional Drum Programming (Track 6): Joe Stefko
*Additional Lead Vocals (Track 6), Backing Vocals: Todd Rundgren
*Backing Vocals: Tawatha Agee (Track 1), Rory Dodd, Curtis King (Track 1), Cindy Mizelli (Track 1), Holly Sherwood (Tracks 7-9), Eric Troyer