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"Paradise by the Dashboard Light" is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell, with vocals by American musicians Meat Loaf and Ellen Foley. An uncommonly long song for a single, it has become a staple of classic rock radio [3] [4] and has been described as the "greatest rock duet". [5]
Songs like 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light,' 'Two Out of Three Ain't Bad' and 'For Crying Out Loud' echoed the textbook teenage view of sex and life: irrepressible physical urges and unrealistic romantic longing." [14] Steinman's songs for Bat Out of Hell are personal but not autobiographical:
Following the success of the next two singles, "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" and "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", the song was re-released in October 1978 with "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" as the B-side. This time it peaked at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #42 on the Cash Box Top 100 over a year after the first release of the ...
Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell is the sixth studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and the second one in the Bat Out of Hell trilogy, which was written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was released on September 14, 1993, sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album Bat Out of Hell. The album reached number 1 in the United States ...
The track is an arena rock and gothic rock song [2] with a length of four minutes and twenty-one seconds. [10] The title of the song is a reference to John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), [11] wherein Satan says: "long is the way/ And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." [12] The song's lyrics are about self-loathing. [2]
"Paradise" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay, released on 12 September 2011 as the second single from their fifth album, Mylo Xyloto. [1] The song received its radio debut at 7:50 a.m. on The Chris Moyles Show ( BBC Radio 1 ) on 12 September 2011.
"This Side of Paradise" is a single by Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams, his fourth and last single from his studio album Room Service, released in 2005. Unlike previous singles, " Open Road " and "Room Service", it didn't chart in the UK or Germany, but it did reach number 20 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US.
"Bat Out of Hell" is a song written by Jim Steinman for the 1977 album Bat Out of Hell and performed by Meat Loaf. In Australia, the song was picked as the second single from the album in May 1978, accompanied by a music video. In January 1979, the song was released as a single in the UK and other European countries, and re-released in 1993.