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Knights of the Rose - Arts Theatre, London

July 06, 2018 by David Vousden in Classic Rock, Live Review, Theatre Review

On a blisteringly hot summer night, your RGM scribe finds himself walking the red carpet with knights on horseback and burning torches for company. It’s a surreal but fitting introduction to Knights of the Rose a new production at the boutique Arts Theatre in London’s West End. Knights of the Rose takes us on an epic journey full of romance, brotherly love and jealousy told through an unlikely mix of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Bon Jovi.

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July 06, 2018 /David Vousden
Knights of the Rose, Bon Jovi, Jim Steinman
Classic Rock, Live Review, Theatre Review
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Bat Out Of Hell The Musical - London Coliseum

August 11, 2017 by David Vousden in Classic Rock, Live Review

Back in the early seventies, a young songwriter was attempting to find a home for a slew of ridiculously overblown songs that featured the perfect American storm of sex, motorcycles and rock n roll. This heady stew of teen angst and raging hormones, delivered with Wagnerian excess, would prove to be a very hard sell. The songwriter was Jim Steinman and he'd already been working in musical theatre for some years when he crossed paths with a budding actor/singer, with the voice to match his imposing frame, who went by the unusual moniker of Meat Loaf. The larger than life singer possessed the vocal power, range, and bravado to bring Steinman's songs to life and they began the search for a record label which would prove very difficult. In other words, they were turned down flat by pretty much every label executive in America until the Cleveland label (an Epic offshoot) took a chance and the slow build to rock legend status commenced.  

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August 11, 2017 /David Vousden
Bat Out Of Hell, Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf
Classic Rock, Live Review
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