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Originally Posted by Evil Ernie
Number of #1 or #2 songs by Jim Steinman: 3 (or more)
Number of hits by ML outside of JS: ???
Can you compare being a successful stage actor to having your name on one of the highest selling records of all time. Jim would have been successful any way that you look at music because he has the songs. Meat Loaf? I'm not sure that he would have done anything without Jim.
Not saying that ML isn't a great singer and that it would have been AS successful. Who knows, maybe it would have sold more with somebody else. You can't say either way.
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Number 1 hits for Stienman since 1993?? Yeah didn't think so
Bottom line, without Bat Out of Hell, sung by Meat Loaf, Jim would have never gotten off the ground floor. Good composer or not, there would have been no songs for Air Supply or Bonnie Tyler if there had not been Meat Loaf first. Bat Out of Hell is what launched both men into the stratosphere. It was the perfect storm. Meat has done just fine post Steinman, whereas I haven't seen anything out of Jim in like 19 years. At least Meat continues to act and make some great new music