Bonnie Tyler left unreleased songs before she died

Singer Bonnie Tyler was recording new music in Surrey in the months before her death and left several unreleased songs, her producer has said.

The Welsh artist has died aged 75 after becoming ill in Portugal.

David Mackay said the pair had been working together again for the past eight or nine years at his studio in Warlingham, and Tyler left "seven or eight, nine, maybe" songs which could be released in the future.

Mackay, who worked with Tyler at the beginning and end of her career, told BBC Radio Surrey she was the same person on and off stage.

"When you saw her on stage that's exactly as she is, there's no fake in her at all," he said.

"She's just a lovely, friendly, happy person, she's your best mate.

"She is one of those people who when you see her on stage or off stage, she's exactly the same."

Mackay first recorded with Tyler in 1972 after he heard a tape of her singing in clubs in Swansea.

"We said she had a great sound and got her down to London to do a demo," he said.

Soon after, they cut her very first records, he said, and her single, Lost in France, released in 1976, became her first UK chart hit - making it to number nine.

The pair worked together for about 10 years before she moved to the US. They reunited decades later, regularly recording in Surrey.

He said Tyler regularly spent several days recording at his studio when not touring.

"Sometimes she'd stay with us here and sometimes she'd stay in the local hotel, but we'd spend three or four days, five days in a row, just recording songs and chatting and having fun until she went back on the road.

"That's what I'm going to miss.

"She was an avid tea drinker - we'd finish a take and she'd just look at me and she'd say tea, and then she'd go in the kitchen and next thing she'd come in with a couple of cups of tea and we'd start chin wagging again."

He said: "She would never stop recording until she knew that I was happy with what she had done, she'd just keep doing it and doing it until she thought we had it right - so it was just wonderful fun."

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