The Man Behind Meat Loaf | Corey Atad | Hazlitt | 19th October 2017
In praise of Jim Steinman, writer of thrillingly over-engineered rock anthems including Bat Out Of Hell for Meatloaf. “It sounded as if Phil Spector and Richard Wagner were making records together. Steinman’s idea was to write a car crash song, inspired by the songs of the fifties and sixties, but one that would blow the rest out of the water. He wanted a crash song so huge, so spectacular, so violent and operatic as to render the genre practically obsolete. Nobody would be able to top it”