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rockfenris2005 08:53 am UTC 09/27/13 |
| Evil Nickname's site gets a mention too Meat Loaf goes to Vegas: out of hell but on the loose The man who would do anything for love starts a Vegas stint Thursday night, a day before turning 66. Happy Birthday Mr Loaf! Katie Rogers theguardian.com, Friday 27 September 2013 05.14 AEST What do you call a sexagenarian rocker embarking on a two-month stint under the bright lights of Las Vegas? Meat Loaf. Well done. The American musician who gained sustained global popularity with his rock opera Bat Out of Hell turns 66 Friday, and begins his Rocktellz & Cocktails residency at Planet Hollywood on Thursday night. There will be booze, costumes and plenty of Loaf's biggest hits, including "I Would Do Anything for Love". As Loaf told Robin Leach (!): "You’re going to hear all the highs and all the lows. I won’t hold back on anything. It’s the good and the bad and the ugly.” Speaking of good, bad and ugly, here's Meat Loaf's rundown: Good: Loaf's collaboration with Jim Steinman, Steinloaf. Loaf met his longtime collaborator Jim Steinman during a theater production of More Than You Deserve, and the rest is majestic rock opera history. The going wasn't easy at first: Loaf was super insecure about his music industry chops, and it took the duo a while to find a label smart enough to sign them with their record Bat Out of Hell. Luckily, this was around the time that Loaf landed a supporting role in Rocky Horror Picture Show (heard of it?). His character is killed and then served as dinner, but his music met a better fate: Loaf convinced the film's producers to feature 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' as the trailer song. This savvy move by Steinloaf, along with promotion of other record songs Bat Out of Hell and Two Out of Three Ain't Bad helped push the album along. Eventually, it became a sustained global hit, selling 43m copies and becoming one of the top-selling albums of all time. Steinman has also written songs for Cher – including Dead Ringer for Love – Barry Manilow and Celine Dion, whose 1996 hit 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' is basically 'I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)' with better lighting. To capture the true beauty of the Steinloaf collaboration, you have to visit the corners of the internet where intense musical nerds dwell. And so, their partnership is best captured by the webmaster of the Almost Complete Archive of Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman: "Full musical accord is evidently shared by the two partners in both thematic and stylistic interpretation. Both men are intensely romantic and their message is clear. Steinman's lyrics explore the many regions of man's desire. Meat Loaf responds at gut level, echoing the changing shades of the love dream." More at the link | |
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