Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
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| Single by Jim Steinman | |
| B-side | "Love and Death and an American Guitar" |
| Released | May 1981 |
| Format | 7" |
| Genre | Progressive Rock |
| Length | 4:00 (Radio edit) 6:23 (Album version) |
| Label | Epic |
| Writer(s) | Jim Steinman |
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| Single by Meat Loaf | ||||
| from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell | ||||
| Released | January 1994 | |||
| Format | Vinyl, CD, Cassette | |||
| Recorded | 1993 Ocean Way Recording (LA) | |||
| Genre | Pop, pop rock | |||
| Length | 5:50 (Album version) 4:02 (Radio edit) |
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MCA (North America) Virgin (Europe & Japan) |
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| Writer(s) | Jim Steinman | |||
| Producer(s) | Jim Steinman | |||
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"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman. It was first featured on Steinman's 1981 solo album Bad for Good, with lead vocals by an uncredited Rory Dodd (though the song is credited to Steinman). It was later recorded by Meat Loaf, and released in 1993 as the third single from the album Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell.
Both the Steinman original and the Meat Loaf remake were Top 40 hits. Steinman's version hit #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, #29 on the Cash Box Top 100, and #14 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts; to date, it is Steinman's lone top 40 hit as an artist. In New Zealand, the song spent two weeks at #6 and was the 46th biggest hit of 1981. The Meat Loaf version reached #11 in the UK and #13 on the U.S. Hot 100 in early 1994.
"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" is a paean to rock music, celebrating how it is always there to help you through troubled times. One of its lyrics is "You're never alone, 'cause you can put on the 'phones and let the drummer tell your heart what to do."
The Steinman version's video features an empty, dark stage with two dancers, one male and one female, both in dancing suits and dancing performance art with a prop electric guitar. Steinman is seen throughout in a dark suit and aviator sunglasses standing still on a platform and lip synching the song. Scenes of a black bird of prey are seen at the beginning and end of the video.
The video for the Meat Loaf version was directed by Michael Bay, who had also directed the videos for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" and "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are".
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