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David Booker
Atlanta, GA, USA
Happy Birthday and best wishes to you Jim Steinman.
I can honestly say my life changed one summer evening as I fiddled with the radio station dial while driving down highway 41 in my old 1970 Plymouth cuda. I had just graduated from college and had my first job as a warehouse supervisor just north of Atlanta.
Despite a fresh diploma and a new job in an exciting and growing city, it wasn't a particularly satisfying time in my life. I still longed for the girl I left behind at college, and my arm still ached from the last baseball game I would ever pitch. Realization that the job I had taken would lead me no-where bothered me almost as much as the dull rumbling that told me the mufflers on my muscle car were wearing thin. Perhaps the most depressing realization however was made evident by my futile twisting of the radio dial. The music industry was dying and nothing would ever be composed again that would touch my soul.
I pushed the radio button to pull in the signal from WKLS - 96 Rock in Atlanta. An AOR format. At least I could listen to The Who or Springsteen during the drive home. Oh shit...it was album hour. A new album was debuting. Just what I needed. I reached for the radio to change stations.
The opening chords of Bat Out of Hell struck me like an anvil and music changed for me forever. Thank you for the gift.
PS: Happy birthday also from my daughter Stephanie, now 15 years old. She claims she encountered a bit of magic one evening during a Washington DC performance of Whistle Down the Wind.
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