“We got turned down by everybody, you know, four times, by every label I can think of,” Meat Loaf tells In The Studio host Redbeard. “
Clive Davis (president of Columbia Records at the time) said to me, ‘Do you guys listen to Rock’n’Roll?’, he said, ‘You’re like the Ethel Merman of Rock’n’Roll’.”
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