Meat Loaf: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 14 January 1978
Ingredients:
Meat Loaf (around 250lbs) from Dallas, Texas; lead singer with Ted Nugent on platinum album Free For All; monster-singer Eddie with half a brain in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jim Steinman, west coast born, east coast resident; composer, arranger, pianist. Assorted musicians (organist, three guitarists, drummer, two backing vocalists).
Total word count of piece: 629
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