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| | The Observer Magazine Bat man |
 | | On stage and television, he seems to have a limitless larger-than-life exuberance, but the man I met was a grumpy old codger who barely said hello before he launched into a great tirade about the iniquities of British journalists and how they always get their facts wrong. |
 | | The tour was to promote his latest album, Couldn't Have Said It Better, and a new single, 'Man of Steel', and it started in the States in the summer, moved to Europe last month and was meant to climax with a run of concerts at Wembley in the week before Christmas. |
 | | Meat Loaf in turn saw Steinman as the man who could write the songs he wanted to sing - he saw their relationship as that of actor and playwright, each inspiring the other. |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1101510,00.html (2953 words) |
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