Meat Loaf: 10 Incredible Forgotten Songs
7. It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Meat Loaf released Bat Out Of Hell III in 2006 although he did it without Jim Steinman, who didn't participate in the creation of the album.
There were some Steinman-penned hits Meat Loaf had not had the chance to record during the pair's frequent fallings out, however, and they were utilised for the third instalment of the series.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now was a hit for Celine Dion during one of these separations and it seems obvious that Meat Loaf was in Steinman's mind when writing the track.
A typically hyper-romantic ballad, Meat reinvented the song as a duet. Norwegian vocalist Marion Ravn took the counterpoint and their trading of lines proved the singer right, as the song worked well as a two-hander. Instantly making the song his own, Meat Loaf's voice sounds as close to its 1977 height as he ever managed in the last decades of his life.
A lot of the material on Bat Out Of Hell III paled in comparison to its predecessors. The Brian May-featuring Bad For Good - a suggestion that Queen being fronted by Meat Loaf during the mid-'70s wouldn't have been the worst thing - was a rare exception.
It's All Coming Back To Me Now though is the one track that could easily have been slotted into either of the Steinman-penned Bats and belonged.