RIP Meat Loaf

I've always championed Paradise by the Dashboard Light as being one of rock's greatest performances,  with it starting out at an 11 and just getting higher and higher from there. Rock opera at its peak, with great singing along with the Wangerian/Spectorian influences of its writer, Jim Steinman. Say what you will about him weighing 300lbs and being just in time before MTV came along, but this song may be the single greatest distillation of every high school boy's Saturday night fantasy, from previous generations to beyond. Well done, Meat. So long.