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Evan 07:51 am UTC 04/26/21 |
| In reply to: | RIP Jim - mickp 01:57 pm UTC 04/23/21 |
| Thank you for posting this very nice tribute. > 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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