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How can I share this... the celine dion song "it's all coming back, it's all coming back to me now" was written by Jim Steinman, who died today. Usually he wrote for Meat Loaf. He played that song for Loaf and Loaf WEPT and said i HAVE to sing it. Jim said NO. it's for a woman
this threw Meat Loaf into a rage... he claimed the song was about him and Jim. The two men definitely did have a super 'mysterious' relationship, also Jim "never found love" in his own life (bc he loved meat loaf)
Jim filed legal paperwork so Meat Loaf wouldn't sing it. Meat Loaf eventually recorded it in 1996 after stubbornly waiting out the legal stuff. It went #1 in Norway lol
The Celine version never reached #1 in the United States because it had to compete with The Macarena. Music history is some of the greatest stuff out there I swear to god
Before Celine sang it, Steinman stuck the song on a concept album for an all-female group called Pandora's Box. He made Elaine Caswell sing it and it was so intense for her she collapsed five times during its recording. I bet this infuriated Meat Loaf
I also love that Jim Steinman was like, "I'm going to write a song about Wuthering Heights that puts Kate Bush to shame... she doesn't know DARKNESS" and then writes the most Andrew Lloyd Webber shit ever. Literally the dancers from Cats were in the original music video!
Anyway let's listen to this song and pour one out for Jim. He also wrote Total Eclipse of the Heart!
I forgot that this video is almost 8 minutes long
CORRECTION, please forgive me - he actually died on Monday 4/19, not today https://post-punk.com/legendary-sisters-of-mercy-producer-jim-steinman-dead-at-73/
“Ignoring boundaries, Steinman’s credo was “If you don’t go over the top, you can’t see what’s on the other side.”” Long Island excellence.
Weirdly I thought @amalialevari told me about all this in 2019 but she has no memory of doing so... so it’s just an immaculate conception of Meat Loaf lore
Oh my goodness lol Pleeeeeease please watch this
Fucking madness. Not to mention “Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell” is the funniest album title I have ever heard. And it was a smash.
I am simply speechless
Epic. Thank you 
