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Category: Jim Steinman

  • “You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth” by Meat Loaf

    Jim Steinman’s voice opens the second track of Bat out of Hell with his legendary question: “On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” It’s a question with clear innuendo that includes one of the most common fantastical sexual tropes: The Big Bad Wolf who is…

  • “Bat out of Hell” by Meat Loaf

    Bat out of Hell had a famously troubled history that eventually became a triumph. Not only was it at least arguably an artistic triumph, but it became one of the best-selling albums of all time. In 1973, Jim Steinman was working on music for More than You Deserve, a musical play at the New York…

  • “Happy Ending” by Yvonne Elliman

    Jim Steinman essentially began his career while a student at Amherst college, writing and starring in a musical called The Dream Engine that was described as a post-apocalyptic Peter Pan story with eternal teenager vampires. He basically spent the rest of his career re-writing The Dream Engine, never letting go of his obsessions with vampires,…