![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than use a recording of a real motorcycle, Rundgren himself played the section on guitar, leading straight into the solo without a break. Steinman insisted that the song should contain the sound of a motorcycle, and complained to producer Todd Rundgren at the final overdub session about its absence. There’s nothing more beautiful than the sound of 20 boy sopranos singing. You see, I’d heard this symphony by Mahler and I really wanted a boy’s choir. But it didn’t work out so we weren’t able to use it. I said that we needed a real boy’s choir but he insisted. Todd wanted to do it with the existing vocal backup section and then speed up the tape and use other technical tricks to get the boy’s choir sound. In the soft section, I wanted to have a boy’s choir. The first idea involved this section (the second concerns a later part of the song). Steinman says that Rundgren vetoed two of his ideas. The protagonist singing to her is "Strat" who is based on Peter Pan. In the Bat Out of Hell Musical Steinman confirmed that the "pure girl" is a character called Raven, who was based on the Neverland character Wendy Darling. Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world īaal yells "Destiny", and continues into the motorcycle part of the song. ![]() Both: Sooner or later, they'll never grow up. Baal: Sooner or later- Tink:-they'll never grow up. In the musical, the character of Baal describes to Wendy what Neverland feels like: " The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling." After the first chorus, Wendy screams "Don't leave me." There is some rapid dialogue after the second chorus between Tink, Baal and Wendy, concluding: Steinman and Meat Loaf, who were touring with the National Lampoon show, felt that the three songs were "exceptional" and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven-song set they wanted to record as an album. The song, along with "Heaven Can Wait" and "All Revved Up with No Place To Go", originally featured in Steinman's Peter Pan-inspired 1977 un-finished musical Neverland, which was finally completed in 2018 and renamed Bat Out of Hell. It had to do with Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho." Neverland It had nothing to do, believe it or not, with Bruce Springsteen. He says all the clients in the Bates Motel "wish they would have left like a bat out of hell. "Springsteen was more an inspiration than an influence." A BBC article suggested, ".the fact that Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan from Springsteen's E Street Band played on the album only helped reinforce the comparison." Īccording to Meat Loaf, the song is "constructed from" a shot near the beginning of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho in which the viewer looks down a valley and sees the lights of a city. Steinman says that he finds that "puzzling, musically," although they share influences. On a musical and thematic level, "Bat Out of Hell", both single and album, are often compared to the work of Bruce Springsteen, particularly the Born to Run album, and especially the song " Thunder Road". There is something so thrilling to me about that operatic narrative that involves a cataclysmic event, especially one so perfectly intune with a teenager's world, and rock and roll, as a car or motorcycle crash. Steinman wanted to write the "most extreme crash song of all time": The song was also inspired by teenage tragedy songs such as " Leader of the Pack", " Terry" and " Tell Laura I Love Her", the latter being the first single Jim Steinman had ever bought. Steinman finally completed the musical (which he started writing in 1968) in 2017. Steinman had intended for the song to appear on "a rock 'n roll sci-fi version of Peter Pan". Like most songs on the album, the song was written about Peter Pan and the Neverland story. In January 1979, the song was released as a single in the UK and other European countries, and re-released in 1993. In Australia, the song was picked as the second single from the album in May 1978, accompanied by a music video. " Bat Out of Hell" is a song written by Jim Steinman, for the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell and performed by Meat Loaf. I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) UK 12-inch red vinyl limited edition (1979) ![]()
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