Paying respects to the one and only Meat Loaf. The big friendly giant of rock who died last week. A life lived in epic cinemascope technicolour. Sometimes funny, often sad, a tragedy, a triumph, a true-life tale of emotional and physical mayhem. The monster to Jim Steinman's Dr Frankenstein. The Beast more full of Beauty than this cruel world ever knew.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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Mick Wall&nbsp;is the best-known rock journalist in&nbsp;the&nbsp;world. Author of&nbsp;numerous best-selling books, including most famously:&nbsp;When Giants Walked The Earth,&nbsp;Two Riders Were Approaching, and&nbsp;Last Of The Giants, he is also an award-winning&nbsp;broadcaster&nbsp;and producer. The former editor-in-chief of&nbsp;Classic Rock, his work has appeared in&nbsp;The Times,&nbsp;Mojo,&nbsp;Rolling Stone, and many other newspapers and magazines around the world.Mick is also the genius behind the&nbsp;Dead Rock Stars&nbsp;pod of 2018 and&nbsp;Getcha Rocks Off&nbsp;(2020-21). The new Mick Wall pod will broadcast one free episode every week. Subscribers to his Patreon site, however, receive many more. Poor bastards. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.