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“It’s supposed to be ridiculous. It’s a song about ridiculousness. So I called Jim Steinman”: How a goth legend hooked up with Meat Loaf’s songwriter to create an ’80s rock anthem

“I know the song Bat Out Of Hell,” the singer said, “but I’ve never listened to the album”

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"The album careens so quickly between clever and stupid that I'm surprised it hasn't become a cult classic." A story of flick-knives, tyre-irons, and Desmond Child's little-remembered 'gang rock' phase

Before he was churning out megahits with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Kiss, Desmond Child was the cornball king of streetfighting anthems

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“It’s a perfect song. Bonnie really conveys the drama. That voice brought Jim’s song to life”: How the writer of Bat Out Of Hell and a husky-voiced singer from Wales combined to create one of the greatest power ballads of all time

“It makes you feel like you're a Norseman in a blizzard”

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"The vampire make-up slowly melts off during the show, revealing the human beings underneath": Welcome to the blood-drenched, Rocky Horror-inspired world of Creeper

Creeper’s new album is a rich, lascivious feast of vampires and rock’n’roll theatre, Jim Steinman-style. But the real Creeper story starts with shoestring punk gigs, DIY video shoots and community spirit

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Pop-rock wizard Todd Rundgren: ‘When I met John Lennon, he was a bundle of rags with nothing to say’

As he tours the UK, the musician answers your questions on making Bat Out of Hell with Meat Loaf, squabbles with XTC and the Band, and wiring his studio while high

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“I have yet to be convinced by any song that AI has come up with. Everything sounds like Taylor frickin’ Swift!”: Todd Rundgren on music, microdosing, accidentally creating hit records and why he ditched Pro Tools

“I like to keep busy,” says the legendary artist and producer

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Airbourne, Creeper, Wytch Hazel and five other kings and queens of the nighttime world

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Rick Derringer, ubiquitous guitarist in US pop and rock, dies aged 77

Singer and guitarist scored a US No 1 fronting 60s rockers the McCoys, before work with artists as varied as Barbara Streisand, Steely Dan, Alice Cooper and ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

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“I didn’t care if it succeeded or not. I just wanted to make fun of Bruce Springsteen”: Todd Rundgren reveals the real reason why he decided to produce Meat Loaf's off-kilter debut Bat Out of Hell

The Wagnerian rock record was initially rejected by many a record label – but would go on to become one of the best-selling albums of all time

Guitar World

“In six months, we got through 300 bottles of vodka, 400 bottles of whiskey and cases of beer. It was insane”: The unbelievable story of Def Leppard’s 80s hard rock masterpiece Hysteria

Four years, one near-fatal car crash and an ocean of booze in the making, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is the 80s hard rock album against which all others should be measured

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"I’d listen to that song and dream about my future": The Struts' Luke Spiller picks the soundtrack of his life

Luke Spiller picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the classic album he might record new vocals for

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Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart was originally written for a Nosferatu musical: “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark"

Jim Steinman wrote Bonnie Tyler’s smash power ballad Total Eclipse Of The Heart - once titled Vampires In Love - for an abandoned Nosferatu musical, before it once again found its home in another fang-toothed Broadway show

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"The public needs fantasy and escapism": Creeper are gearing up for Devil's Night and a huge, pomp-filled night in North London

It’ll be fangs, coffins and fake blood at Wembley Arena later this month

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"Probably one of the worst decisions ever made": In 2011 Meat Loaf was booked to play in front of 100,000 fans in Melbourne, and it did not go well

Meat Loaf's pre-game performance at the AFL Grand Final went down in history for all the wrong reasons

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Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart' Still A Hit

Bonnie Tyler's iconic song 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' remains a timeless favorite, sparking surges in popularity during eclipses.

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"Hopefully we get more horny metal songs in 2024": Inspired by Bat Out Of Hell and the theatricality of Ziggy Stardust, Creeper have proved Sleep Token aren't the only band bringing sex appeal back to metal

Creeper's Sanguivore is a gloriously OTT vision of the vampire-goth-rock opera inspired by Meat Loaf/Jim Steinman and classic vampire horror movies

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The 10 best goth albums of 2023

From Grave Pleasures and Creeper to Host and Ville Valo, these are the best gothic albums of 2023

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‘It was written for a Nosferatu musical’: how Bonnie Tyler made Total Eclipse of the Heart

‘We shot the video in a gothic former asylum that was very frightening. The guard dogs wouldn’t set foot in the downstairs rooms, where people had been given electric shock treatment’

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"People talk about how brilliant it was that grunge wiped out hair metal. Listen, hair metal was way more fun:" Creeper are bringing character back to rock'n'roll and somewhere Jim Steinman is applauding

Disillusioned with much of modern music and its presentation, Creeper up the drama and the slap and take things over-the-top with their new goth-rock vampire opera album

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“It’s a place where outsiders live. When you’re getting hit in the face for being a dirty grunger, it’s a world to escape to.” How UK goth-punks Creeper crafted a deliciously dark new world for outcasts everywhere to hide in. With vampires.

Creeper's Sanguivore is one of the albums of the year, and with it they - and in particular talismanic frontman Will Gould - have crafted a whole new world

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Still wondering what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love? Then read the lyrics

The story behind Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's mega-hit I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

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Barbra Streisand’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

Ahead of her long-awaited, 992-page memoir being published next month, we pick the best of a singer who always radiates timeless star quality

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Songwriter Desmond Child explains why his chorus melody from Bon Jovi's You Give Love A Bad Name features in two other hits songs

A tale of Bonnie Tyler, Jim Steinman and Ava Max

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Bonnie Tyler: the soundtrack of my life

Power-ballad belter Bonnie Tyler picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals that Axl Rose was "horny as hell"

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The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review

"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing

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