Tag Archives: Meat Loaf
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Obituary: Meat Loaf had a career that had to be heard and seen to be believed
Meat Loaf performs at Wembley Arena in London on the ‘Dead Ringer’ tour, on April 27, 1982. Photo: Pete Still/Redferns. Meat Loaf died Thursday at the age of 74. That surely robs the world of one of its great, unique talents and is truly sad for those of us…
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REWIND is back! Starting with Donna Summer, 4 others I forgot the first time
Last week I finished the yearlong journey through the last half-century of music. It was quite the project; 52 weekly columns each taking on a year and culminating in the best five songs of 2018. Then RIFF’s editor, Roman, asked when I’d have this week’s column in. So… I…
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RIFF Rewind—A time machine for your ears: 1977
1977 was a good year. Star Wars came out, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours came out, Voyager 1 and 2 launched, Harvey Milk was elected. I mean, yeah, disco still existed and there was that whole Son of Sam (serial killer) thing I guess—but, Star Wars! It was a pretty good year…
