Meat Loaf: Dead Ringer
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1981
MEAT 'ANYWHERE he wants to' Loaf is waxing rhapsodic once more. Who among us has not missed the grandiloquent sound of the corpuscles in his neck straining to communicate the tearful longings in his heart? Who, indeed, can remain impassive in the presence of his subtle etchings of love's ironic pulpitudes?
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