October 22, 200618 yr meatloaf has climbed from number 43 to number 6 in the uk this week with its all coming back to me now, here in ireland its currently number 48
October 31, 200618 yr Here are some quotes from Meat Loaf about IACBTMN.. (he's so bitter.) 'It's All Coming Back To Me' is Meat Loaf's first single to be released from the new album. Canadian singer Celine Dion released the song in 1996, but Meat Loaf insists the music was originally written for him. [....] and the first single It's All Coming Back to Me Now, a hit for Celine Dion in the mid-'90s. Meat Loaf doesn't believe the song carries any baggage from the Celine Dion version. "I don't think so," he says. "I always thought it was meant to be a duet and I can tell you right now how it got to her is through a greedy publisher. "It was meant to be on Bat Out of Hell II but it was pulled because that album already had a big duet in the song I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)." For the duet he's joined by Norway's Marion Raven, who enjoyed moderate success in the 1990s as part of all-girl duo M2M. [....] Still, there will be a closure of sorts. Meat Loaf’s release of It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, the Steinman song memorably performed by Celine Dion in 1996, ends one of the more painful spats that have come to pass between the pair. Like so many of us, he was upset when he heard Dion’s version of the song — us because it featured Celine Dion and him “because we had deliberately left that song off Bat II so we could do it next time around. No offence to Celine, but when it finally comes out, I’ll feel like the definitive version is finally out there.†In fact, the album's first single is the Steinman-penned It's All Coming Back To Me, a duet with Norwegian singer Marion Raven. Although it was originally a hit for Canadian singer Celine Dion in 1996, Meat Loaf insisted his version is more than a mere cover version. "It was my song before she made it big," Meat Loaf said with a tinge of resentment. "It was originally going to be on Bat Out of Hell II in 1993 but we already had what we felt was the strongest hit in I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)." So, when Meat Loaf passed on recording that Jim Steinman track, Dion got it. Still, Meat Loaf feels that the song was destined to be on Bat Out of Hell III. "I believe that the version that Marion Raven and myself did on this album is the definitive version. It was always meant to be a duet, anyway." Newspaper: Your new single "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" has a very interesting story. It was supposed to be released 20 years ago. Meat Loaf: Jim Steinmann, my author, thought that it would be better to keep this song for the third and last part of our "Bat Of Hell" trilogy. Unfortunately he gave this song a couple of years later to this Canadian" Newspaper: This Canadian is called Céline Dion and had a worldwide hit with this song! Meat Loaf: Oh yes, Céline Dion. I forgot the name. When I first heard the song in 1986 I knew that I have to make a duet out of it. It was made to be a duet. And then Céline Dion released a solo version. Well, what can I say? I was furious when I first heard about it. Now I sing the song just the why I wanted to sing it in the past and the title fits perfectly because now it's all coming back to me. "Bat Out of Hell III" features Meat Loaf's rendition of Steinman's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," which was a hit for Celine Dion a few years back. Meat Loaf, who duets with newcomer Marian Raven on his rendition of the piece, said he "basically ignored" Dion's version of the song because he believed it was his. "And it had nothing to do with her, it just had to do with the fact that I felt that song was mine so I basically have ignored it," he said. "And the only reason I would even talk about it is because other people bring it up. To me, it doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is this duet. I know that sounds like a crazy person speaking and that's probably true."
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