I woke up to the sad news this morning that rockstar Marvin Lee Aday a.k.a. Meat Loaf has died at the age of 74. Meat Loaf's debut album Bat Out of Hell was released in 1977, the year I was born. This album is one of the best-selling records of all time with an estimated 43 million copies sold globally. It was the highest-selling album in Australia as of 2016. The album also spent 522 weeks on the UK Top 200 chart.
Bat Out of Hell has one of the all-time great rock opera songs called Paradise by the Dashboard Light. As you can tell by the video, Meat Loaf did not exactly look like your typical rockstar. I liked that about him. The guy could sing and perform, isn't that all you need?
This song is an 8.5-minute opus describing an experience in most teenage boys' lives--finding yourself alone with a girl in a car. As a teenage boy, your hormones are completely out of control and all you want is some action. The girl holds all the cards, of course, and will determine what will happen. So the girl asks if he will love her forever, make her his wife, and all he wants is to get laid. So of course he agrees to every promise in the world and after the deed is done he immediately regrets it.
I hope Meat Loaf finally found his final paradise by the dashboard light.
Bat Out of Hell has one of the all-time great rock opera songs called Paradise by the Dashboard Light. As you can tell by the video, Meat Loaf did not exactly look like your typical rockstar. I liked that about him. The guy could sing and perform, isn't that all you need?
This song is an 8.5-minute opus describing an experience in most teenage boys' lives--finding yourself alone with a girl in a car. As a teenage boy, your hormones are completely out of control and all you want is some action. The girl holds all the cards, of course, and will determine what will happen. So the girl asks if he will love her forever, make her his wife, and all he wants is to get laid. So of course he agrees to every promise in the world and after the deed is done he immediately regrets it.
I hope Meat Loaf finally found his final paradise by the dashboard light.