So, I just got a new iPod with more memory than my old one, and I've been busy loading it up. While doing this, I happened to take a look through the CD booklet from Elton John's
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album- I have some kind of reissue. Anyway, in the liner notes, I came across this:
...the first track, "Funeral for a Friend", was a striking instrumental, with engineer David Hentschel playing synthesiser and Davey Johnstone's guitar also prominent. There seem to be Wagnerian influences on this track similar to those which affected Jim Steinman when he was writing "Bat Out of Hell" a year or two later, and it is interesting to note that Davey Johnstone later played in Meat Loaf's backing band...
...and "Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock and Roll)" was possibly yet another song which influenced Jim Steinman, this time when he wrote "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", another track on Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" album.
I thought this was interesting, as I had noticed the similarity between "Paradise" and "Your Sister Can't Twist" a while ago myself.
What do you guys think?
Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p_xAToFzck
Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock and Roll)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f31TCmbQRvo