presumably you are mourning his passing along with everybody else. whatever thoughts been? everybody is ringing me up saying good morning, but it is not really a good morning. it is a very, very sad day. he was such a great man. he gave me a break that i might not have ever got if i hadn t sang that song, it is incredible. hadn t sang that song, it is incredible. , , ., ., . incredible. did you have much contact with incredible. did you have much contact with him incredible. did you have much contact with him over - incredible. did you have much contact with him over the - incredible. did you have much i contact with him over the years? incredible. did you have much - contact with him over the years? not reall , i contact with him over the years? not really. i had contact with him over the years? ijrrt really, i had more contact withjim steinman he wrote all the songs, i met up with meat loaf from time to time and i was with him at newcastle when he was very ill and had collapse
there were court cases, he suffered two years of depression, his house was repossessed and then found himself playing tiny bars and clubs. # i would do anything for love. then, in 1990, he and steinman healed their rift. the result, bat out of hell ii. 16 years after the original, the magic still worked. the first rule is, i m not supposed to talk about it. he also made something of a name as an actor in the film fight club. look at my face, bud. but his legacy will always be bat out of hell, one of the most extraordinary and certainly one of the most successful rock albums ever made. tributes have been pouring in to meat loaf.
he was pretty much losing his mind. oh, i had a nervous breakdown. and i went to. i was at a psychologist for about ten months, five days a week. why? was there a self destructive element within you? or what was it? no. the whole thing with the psychologist was, you know, i said to the psychologist. she goes, why are you here? i said, because people are calling me a star, and i can t deal with that. right. that s very interesting. and, again, it seems to me we can t discuss your career, and we re going to go right through it if we have time, but we can t discuss it without coming back to this relationship withjim steinman, because he was writing the songs certainly wrote bat out of hell you did some more collaboration with him, but oftentimes.after that, you did your own albums too. but the truth is, if one looks at it, your albums withoutjim steinman were never as successful and most folks would say never as good as the work you ve done withjim steinman. yeah, they prob
street level attitude, curled lips, mentalism basically. then you get this album that as you say, is completely of the top and these epic songs often ten minutes for the pure escapism, back inquires, fantasy layers, it completely went against the grain and yet if you line up the punks and compare them to meet lowe s sales figures, comparison way he took them to be absolute cleaners. that s how well it sold him a 43 million copies, it was on the uk charts for 500 weeks this six pistols never came close to those figures. the amazing thing is that he did it again. he had a lean eighties, meatloaf struggled in the 80s because he broke withjim steinman. i 80s because he broke with jim steinman. . , 80s because he broke with jim steinman 80s because he broke with jim steinman. ., , ., ., ., g steinman. i was going to mention jim simon because steinman. i was going to mention jim simon because in a steinman. i was going to mention jim simon because in a sense steinman. i was going to m