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rockfenris2005 11:10 am UTC 07/05/11 |
| In reply to: | Not Allowed To Love/ Jim Needs Better Publicity - steven_stuart 12:56 am UTC 07/05/11 |
> I really love the song "Not Allowed To Love" that Jim > wrote for the "Batman" musical. You can hear several > versions of it by visiting the demos section of Ryan's > "Batman" website (link below). As Ryan suggests on the > site, it may find a new home in "BOOH: The Musical", which > would be really cool because its a wonderful song and I > would hate for it to be forgotten. > > Although Ryan has done an excellent job of keeping the > memory of the song and the musical that it was originally > written for alive. I love this song with a passion and I've been under its spell for years. Some people don't like it. Or they don't think it's as good as his older work. But to be totally honest and frank I think it's to die for. It's utterly enchanting. > I was listening to Magic FM on Friday (one of the biggest > UK radio stations) and they kept saying: "Be the first to > call when we play Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse Of The > Heart" and you will win 10,000 pounds!" > > I listened for two hours but they didn't play it. But > still, I presume that someone eventually won ten grand for > hearing one of Jim's masterpieces. > > Jim has said that "Who Needs The Young?" is not "radio > fodder" (which is true) but its great that he does have > some very radio friendly songs. > > Karen Brady was the only female soccer manager in the > premier league here and she was on "Desert Island Discs" > (a very popular radio programme where celebrities choose > eight pieces of music that they would want if they were > stranded on a desert island) and, out of eight pieces of > music, she chose two Jim songs, "Anything For Love" and > "Total Eclipse Of The Heart". > > Jim's work is everywhere but I think he needs a really > good publicist, so that absolutley everyone knows who > wrote these wonderful songs. > > I can think of eight UK commercials that have used Jim's > music in the last two years. > > Meat Loaf is constantly being featured on cable televison > channels here (concerts, documentaries, a TV movie, SNL) > and he really is the Frankenstein monster that Jim > invented (no disrespect to Meat intended - just respect > for Jim). > > ALW, Roman Polanski, Barbra Streisand and many others have > wanted to work with Jim. Its really amazing if I stop to > think about it. > > "Tanz" is the most successful show in German history. I > think. > > Jim should be at least as famous as ALW. Anyone who can > write a song like "Not Allowed To Love" should be. > > There is no problem as far as recognition goes with UK > media people. The Evening Standard is the most important > newspaper for the arts in the UK (the "BOOH: The Musical" > ad was in The Standard). Their music critic was reviewing > a Celine Dion concert. He said that Celine was wooden and > boring when singing songs by "hacks" like Diane Warren but > that she came to life and showed her true potential as an > artist when singing "Its All Coming Back To Me Now" by > "the genius Jim Steinman". > > The fact that UK media people are so familiar with Jim > should make a good publicist's job easy. Terry Wogan > played "Rock And Roll Dreams" (the Jim/Rory Dodd version) > and said that it was one of his favourite tracks of all > time. | |
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