First two people in Bradford, I love it, I got my copy after "Rock and Roll Dreams" had just been released as a single. Back then, this album was being treated like a Michael Jackson release. It was so huge.
> Long time since I posted here but deepest sympathies to
> all those that knew Jim. He was not as prolific as some,
> loved recycling and took an age to produce anything but
> unlike most his output is just about faultless and
> includes many of the largest epics of all time. A massive
> part of my life from first hearing You took the words in
> 1978, many, many Meat Loaf concerts in the 80s and 90s,
> Whistle Down the Wind original West End run, Bat out of
> hell musical very first performance 17/2/17 with my son
> and a few more after that. In those days of pre internet
> I may not have been alone in thinking Jim was the lead
> singer of a band called Meatloaf. That was soon corrected
> when I heard Rock and Roll dreams in 1981 and it became
> the song of the summer for me as I studied for my O
> levels. First person in Bradford to buy Bat out of Hell
> II (two of us in the queue, me and my mate). Anything for
> love was the first song at my wedding in 1995. No matter
> what was my Mum's request for her funeral, although her
> favourite Jim song was Two out of three. My son's have
> seen the musical so his songs live on
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