![]() ![]() If you ever saw Steinman play, he totally banged on the keys, so you didn’t need anybody else on stage. ![]() Meat was cast in the tour and somehow it was finagled that Jim would come on and be the piano player. Was “Bat Out of Hell” being written around that time, and Jim and Meat were part of your circle on the tour and said, “You’d be great for this?” That was us, and that was the highlight of that show, as I recall. And then my boyfriend comes in and is doing things like pretending he’s my dog and humping my leg, and just doing terrible things to me because I’m blind. So I’m a girl, I come to my apartment, I’m really happy, and I throw up my hat and I miss it, because I’m blind. Well, the one thing I really remember that we did together was a sketch “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which was on around that time. And he was a boy from Texas, and if you didn’t like it… I don’t think he’d kick your ass, but he would still walk around with no pants on.ĭid you have much interaction on stage, doing that National Lampoon tour? I think he was proud of himself and who he was. Where do you think that came from? Was he just born with that personality? Like, he was fine walking around with no pants on. He seemed like someone who was extremely comfortable in his own skin, to a degree that maybe someone going through life as this really big, truly outsize guy might not be. But, no, without Jim Steinman - I mean, it was all about that relationship. So it was like a self-realizing prophecy, that he knew he was going to be it, and he made himself it. And he was always a star in his own mind. The movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” was just coming out, and he symbolized this crazy rock ‘n’ roll sexuality in that movie, and so he was already kind of a cult hero. So you knew he was going to be something. Yeah, because when Meat walked into a room, he was already Meat Loaf. When you were doing the National Lampoon tour together before working on “Bat Out of Hell,” was this somebody that in your wildest imagining you looked at and thought, “Of course - this guy could be a major rock ‘n’ roll star”? I assume they’re up there negotiating about something at this point in time. And the fact that we also lost Jim Steinman is a double whammy. The first record I ever sang on was “Bat Out of Hell.” it just brings up so many feelings and so many images - it’s joyful, and it’s hard. So when I think of him, I think of myself as this girl who did her first Actors’ Equity show with him in this National Lampoon tour, driving around the country in a blue van. He was so much a part of my youth, more so than later on in my life, because most of our interaction was when we were young. There are certain people that you think are always going to be there, like Betty White and Meat Loaf. It was shocking because it all happened so quickly. What were your feelings upon hearing Meat Loaf had died? 1, and then we’re pretty close behind there or something. Well, “Up Where We Belong,” by Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker - I think that’s considered maybe No. Anyway, among truly dramatic duets, there is not much that compares. But that’s such a broad category, you do kind of want to double-check the history of pop music, in your mind, just to make sure. There are those of us who would consider “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” the greatest duet ever recorded. So I guess I was the Maria Callas of rock ‘n’ roll. Because you had to be very dramatic and histrionic and not hold anything back. If you were any kind of rock ‘n’ roll kid at all, it wasn’t something you needed to sleep on.įoley spoke with Variety from her east coast home Friday, not long after she and the world learned that Meat Loaf had passed.īecause of the work you did on “Bat Out of Hell,” Jim Steinman called you “the Maria Callas of rock ‘n’ roll,” right? Nevertheless, even if she hadn’t gone on to work with Ian Hunter and the Clash and make her own solo albums, or to act in “Night Court,” “Hair” and other film and TV projects, she would have gone down in history… just for asking Meat, and us, if we would love her forever. Foley left the camp when she declined to go out on the tour supporting the album, and was replaced not only on the road but in the “Paradise” music video by Karla DeVito (who lip-synched Foley’s part for the cameras). She, Meat Loaf and Steinman first worked together on a National Lampoon tour in the mid-’70s, then on the making of 1977’s “Bat Out of Hell,” one of the most popular albums of all time.
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