Crusaders of the Heart
Coming up on one year this year since maestro Jim Steinman took his final flight to Never Land ("You can fly and never land/And never need to sleep/But will it ever be enough?/You know that it'll never be enough") and I'm listening to the original "Bat out of Hell" album on my headphones. Released on 21 October 1977, "Bat out of Hell" was the debut album of Meat Loaf with songs by Jim Steinman, which stands in the top 20 greatest selling albums of all time, along with AC/DC "Back in Black", Pink Floyd "The Dark Side of the Moon", Michael Jackson "Thriller" and more. The result of two people meeting at an audition, Jim's musical "More Than You Deserve" staged between the Public Theater's triumphs with "Hair" and "A Chorus Line". From there, they got together and rehearsed a series of songs with just vocal and piano accompaniment. Jim would pound the piano, and then hold up his hands