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rockfenris2005 12:55 am UTC 06/22/11 |
| In reply to: | Meat Loaf: To Hell And Back: TV Movie Mistakes - steven_stuart 12:43 am UTC 06/22/11 |
> I have been asking people their opinions about the "Meat > Loaf: To Hell And Back" TV Movie. I have just received an > email from a friend who knows a lot about the history of > Meat Loaf, pointing out mistakes that the TV movie made. I > am wondering if anyone else noticed these mistakes or if > they have any other mistakes to add. One thing that I > noticed was what happened to Meat after the first showing > of the BOOH film clip on American TV (when the tape slowed > down and it all went wrong). In the book and interviews > Meat Loaf says that he went on a bender (I think he was in > Detroit) and woke up three days later in the Harbor Castle > Hotel in Toronto with now idea of how he got there. In the > film they simply show Meat walking around a street kicking > empty cans. I am guessing that the book is much closer to > what really happened than the TV movie is. Although I > would be interested to hear any mistakes that anyone > reading the book noticed. Anyway, here is the list of > mistakes that my friend sent me: > > * No mention of Stoney and Meatloaf > > * “More than you deserve” was originally > called “Souvenirs”. Meat Loaf would not have auditioned > for “More than you deserve”. > > * The song “More than you deserve” was included especially > for Meat, which then became the title of the show. > > * Meat sang “You gotta give your heart to Jesus” at the > audition and I believe he was accompanied by Steve > Margoshes. Meat and Steve had just worked on a musical > called “Rainbow”, which was like a sequel to “Hair”. > > * Filming of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” took place in > England and I can’t imagine Jim being on the set. Prove me > wrong ;-) > > * Leslie, Meat’s former wife, is introduced before “Bat > out of Hell” and not after. > > * There is absolutely NO MENTION of the album “Bad for > Good”. It’s just Meat and Jim in the studio working on > “Dead Ringer” and Meat can’t sing. They glossed over a > really important chapter. > > * Meat didn’t see his father in the 80s because his father > was already dead. And there was no shrine because Meat > wasn’t famous in the early 70s. Also, Meat’s father died > in the early 70s. > > * There is no mention of any of the 80s albums after “Dead > Ringer”. > > * There is no mention of any of the other films that he > would have made. > > * When Jim’s at the piano playing “Out of the frying pan”, > I laughed because that song had actually been around since > the early 80s. > > * He did not sing “I’d do anything for love (But I won’t > do that)” at the cancer charity event. He actually sang > “I’d lie for you (And that’s the truth)”. > > All comments are welcome. Thanks. > Yup. All that's true. And I think there's more. | |
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