Rickie Lee Jones Priceless!

this brings peace in my heart

still great

Amazing to see Leo singing better than ever. I grew up on your music mate.. thanks 🙏

Doesn't sound right at all! Plus, everybody singing drowns him out.

75 and still love them! ❤❤

Rest in peace martin

*JAMES RICHARD STEINMAN: November 1, 1947 - April 19, 2021* *_"If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side."_* Jim Steinman, who died aged 73 on April 19, 2021, was the songwriter behind some of the most successful - and most sung-in-the shower - records in the history of rock music, notably the “Bat Out of Hell” albums with Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler’s chart-topping ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart”. James Richard Steinman was born at Hewlett, New York, on November 1, 1947. His father owned a warehouse that stored steel and his mother taught Latin. After attending the local high school, he went to Amherst College, Massachusetts, and originally hoped to have a career in film. Customarily described as a rock opera - Steinman nicknamed himself “Little Richard Wagner” - “Bat Out of Hell” in fact drew on the whole gamut of America’s musical heritage, including doo-wop, gospel, rock’n’roll, and in particular musical theatre. Years in the making, the roots of “Bat Out of Hell” lay in a show that Steinman had begun writing as a student in the late 1960s. “The Dream Engine” had a brief run in Washington, fronted by a young Richard Gere, and caught the eye of Robert Stigwood, the impresario who managed the Bee Gees, and Joseph Papp, the producer of “Hair”. Encouraged by them, Steinman worked for some years in theatre in New York. He met the improbable and outsized Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday) in 1973 when the singer auditioned for a role in a Vietnam War-inspired musical Steinman was putting together. While the pair toured in the National Lampoon Show (replacing Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi), they worked on a staging that recycled many of Steinman’s earlier songs. Incorporating themes of teenage rebellion and lust, drawing on Gothic imagery and the modern mythology of the motorcycle, they had the “Bat Out of Hell” album written by 1975. Its songs included “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, which reframed a back-seat seduction as a baseball match, complete with commentary. The record was produced by Todd Rundgren, who matched a Phil Spector-style “Wall of Sound” to Steinman’s deliriously frenzied words and music, the whole witches’ brew saved from parody only by the wholehearted sincerity of Meat Loaf’s performance. Other influences included Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” - several of members of his band played on the album - and “The Rocky Horror Show”, in which Meat Loaf had appeared on stage and screen. Yet record companies, in the era of disco and punk, at first showed no interest in acquiring the record. Famously, Clive Davis, the head of Arista Records, told Steinman that his songs - many of them three times the length of most singles - did not sound sufficiently like those on the radio. It was not until 1977 that “Bat Out of Hell” was released by a small subsidiary label, Cleveland International. Steinman recalled that only when the record deal was signed did he learn that he and Meat Loaf would not be billed as a duo. Finding a foothold first in Britain, where it would eventually spend an astonishing ten years in the chart, “Bat Out of Hell” would go on to sell about 50 million copies worldwide, helped by the success of singles such as “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “You Took the Words Right Out of my Mouth.” Meat Loaf however, struggled with his transition to stardom, and although the 1981 LP “Dead Ringer”, which included a duet with Cher, reunited him with Steinman, the two became embroiled in legal action after Steinman released an album of his own, “Bad for Good”, in 1981. In retaliation, Steinman then began to collaborate with the group “Air Supply” (who took his song “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” to No 1 in America) and with Bonnie Tyler. The soaring, lushly orchestrated ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, with a passionate performance by Tyler and aided by a typically understated video directed by Russell Mulcahy (who later made the film “Highlander”), hit the top in both Britain and America in 1983. The Welsh singer also made the most of Steinman’s “Holding Out for a Hero” in 1984, from the soundtrack to “Footloose”, while Barry Manilow scored success with “Read ’Em and Weep” in 1983. Steinman was said to have been approached by Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the lyrics to “The Phantom of the Opera”, but after a long hiatus he and Meat Loaf unexpectedly reunited in 1993 to create “Bat Out of Hell II”. Heralded by the single “I’d Do Anything For Love”, which was a worldwide chart-topper, the album went on to almost equal the success of its predecessor. After the success of “Bat Out of Hell II”, Steinman won a Grammy in 1996 for writing “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”, which was a hit for Celine Dion. That same year, he composed the lyrics for “Whistle Down the Wind”, the Lloyd Webber musical. Although not a smash at the box office, it did yield a huge pop hit when Boyzone recorded one of the songs, “No Matter What”. In 1997, “Dance of the Vampires”, Steinman’s own musical version of Roman Polanski’s film “The Fearless Vampire Killers”, opened in Vienna. A long-cherished project of his, it was directed by Polanski himself. Subsequently there were rumours that Steinman was working on musicals about Greta Garbo and Batman, but these never materialised. Instead, Steinman was stricken by the first of several strokes in 2004 and then mired in yet more litigation with Meat Loaf, this time over the use of the “Bat Out of Hell” trademark for the third album by that name, released in 2006. Although that record featured several of Steinman’s songs, all written for earlier records, it was the first of the trilogy in which he was not involved in their production. The litigation was eventually settled. Between 2017 and 2019 a musical drawing on the songs in the “Bat Out of Hell” cycle, toured North America and Britain. Critics routinely characterised Steinman’s vision as camp and over-the top, a verdict that ignored not only the joy he brought to millions but also an originality which in cinema would have seen him hailed an auteur. As he observed: “If you don’t go over the top, you can’t see what’s on the other side.”

Brilliant. Thanks for sharing.

Brilliant

Brilliant singers ❤❤

🥰🥰🥰

I saw it on October 5th, it is brilliant!

Love the song and especially the singers.it is so true for many people. ❤.love all their songs. The words are so sad😢

RIP David Graham. The news didn't make it in Canada, but I knew it was a matter of months before he passed...

well these guys were huge in the 70's. I say "these guys" ..... there is only 1 original member left, can you pick which one ....? The current Bay City Rollers are Ian Thomson on lead vocals and guitar, John McLaughlin on vocals and keys, Mikey Smith on bass guitar, Jamie McGrory on drums and Woody on guitar.

RIP david Graham. This is the first time I’m genuinely sad when an actor dies. 😢

0:32 Toonces, nooooo!!

Salute.

Wow! Blessed with many years.

I am 70 yrs old. My mom raised us kids listening to all kinds of music, but Peter Paul & Mary were one of my favorite groups. We sang along, we sang around our campfires, my younger brother's first crush was for Mary. It helped my brothers, who have amazing voices (RIP Bob) learn how to harmonize. I never heard this song. They sound perfect.

RIP David Graham

I always found the Redlands best to be an interesting event in the Stones history.

What a great entertainer.

What has this guy done that his OWN FAMILY come to see him hang?

God rest your gentle soul Sir Jimmy James. One day l hope they find a cure for Parkinson’s disease. God bless you for the music and your fabulous voice.

Lol never again. Vile place.

I was a BIG PPM fan when a teen and in college. I didn’t even understand why my contemporaries liked the Beatles!

Fancy meeting

Superb as always

Peter Paul and Mary were famously excluded from the big Bob Dylan TV birthday bash. They were never considered in the cool club. But nonetheless their influence was vast and performances like this one, hold up very well with time!

I really hope some or all of the line is restored.

That’s fantastic.

Now is the time to sip and drive.. It was a song promoting drunk driving 🤡🙄🥱

True love is thicker than blood

Don't think anyone mentioned the "Bad For Good" album. Credited to him but vocals by Rory Dodd on most songs. He didn't want the fame. Also. Fire Inc. had a couple of songs "Nowhere Fast" and "Tonight is what it means to be young" on the Streets Of Fire soundtrack

Great to watch, I enjoy the music v

Saw the band in Australia when I lived their great band.

Good

Sad to think that a year later, Meatloaf joined him

Best group ever, Beatles don’t come close - end of chat - not listening - La La La La La 5 penny piece best group ever 👍🏻

Why didn't Mary get her own microphone?

Rockabilly is/was fantastic. Matchbox, Stray Cats... Doo-Wop/rock n roll was also superb with Darts, Rocky Sharpe, The Jets, etc.... late 70s/early 80s great time for a variety of music.

Darts - fabulous!

Rolling Stone is a joke.

The Rollers got a bit too much fame, Les barely recovered, RIP.

Que grandes leyendas 👏 👏👏👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏

This was in 1978…so not far off 45 years ago… it was good at the time and what we enjoyed.., but time moves on. It was a simpler life, Back then I don’t recall anything like the horrific Bradford stabbing of a mother with her baby in a pram, the recent NYC trend of face punching women in-the street for no reason.. I could go on…… I’m glad I’m old !

Merveilleux trio, des belles années

I can listen to you both all day long.