[the better cut-paste-and-adjust work from JimSteinman.com:]
It was way back in 1992 (I was 12 then) when I was watching the Dutch Grand Gala Du Disque, because my neighbor was there for some other tv-show, and we were looking to see if we could spot her.
The all of a sudden this big guy, is coming on stage, and he start to sing this song (I'd Do Anything For Love, I think it was called) and I was all like, well, man... this rocks. I *wasn't* into music at all at that time, but I had something like -- man, this is what I've been waiting for. So a couple of months later I bought Bat II, which was the first album I bought, ever.
After that, someone gave me a tape with Bat on it (there was this Paradise song, which was actually a lot like a song by the Dutch singer Paul de Leeuw on there - of which I didn't knewit was a cover) and I was hooked. No wait, that was after I bought WTTN, and then it went wrong: I started to collect all 12", 7", CD's, singles, tourbooks, etc. I could get my hands on...
Went to see him live for the first time on the WTTN tour (which was actually my first concert ever) with my mother... and she still complains about how loud the volume was, the second time on the TVBOML-tour in '99 (only went to the 1st Dutch show, why I didn't go to the 2nd still wonders me), saw him on the NotP for the 3rd time (my mother always wanted to go there, at least that's what she said, but since I was going anyway, I dragged her along for her 2nd time - as a birthday present) and this year in Amsterdam for the 4th.
Hope that settles your interest...
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