It's All Coming Back to Me Now: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|1989 single by Pandora's Box, later covered by Celine Dion}}

{{For|the David Crosby album|It's All Coming Back to Me Now...}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}

"'''It's All Coming Back to Me Now'''" is a [[power ballad]] written by [[Jim Steinman]].<ref>According to Meat Loaf as indicated in {{cite web |url=http://thenakedwire.com/content/view/43/1/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010193058/http://thenakedwire.com/content/view/43/1/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 October 2007 |title=this Reuters report (31 July 2006, accessed 11 September 2006) |access-date=1 June 2016}}, it was written for the first album in the ''[[Bat Out of Hell]]'' trilogy, recorded by Meat Loaf.</ref> According to Steinman, the song was inspired by ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'', and was an attempt to write "the most passionate, romantic song" he could ever create.<ref name="artist">{{cite web |work=JimSteinman.com |title=Jim Steinman on "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" |url=http://www.jimsteinman.com/backtome.htm |access-date=4 September 2006}}</ref> ''The Sunday Times'' posits that "Steinman protects his songs as if they were his children". [[Meat Loaf]] had wanted to record the song for years, but Steinman saw it as a "woman's song". Steinman won a court case, which prevented Meat Loaf from recording it.<ref name="sundaytimes"/> Girl group [[Pandora's Box (band)|Pandora's Box]] went on to record it, and it was subsequently made famous through a cover by [[Celine Dion]], which upset Meat Loaf because he was going to use it for a planned album with the working title ''Bat Out of Hell III''.<ref name="radio2"/>