Meatloaf, Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell

A song just began on my playlist: Bonnie Tyler - I'm Holding Out For A Hero. It rang bells. Not the song itself, I know the song. Everyone knows the song. The underlying piano riff and drum sequence were screaming at me. Then it hit me like a tonne of pins being dropped from a great height: Meatloaf made a song which has exactly that piano riff and drum sequence in it.

Good Girl's Go To Heaven (But The Bad Girls Go Everywhere) on the album Bat Out Of Hell II, Back Into Hell and Bonnie Tyler's "I'm Holding Out For A Hero" feature the same piano and drum... could this be a coincidence? A quick google search revealed that Jim Steinman wrote I'm Holding Out For A Hero, and anyone who knows anything about Meatloaf will know that Jim Steinman wrote Bat Out Of Hell, and Bat Out Of Hell II. AHA!

So, it seems Steinman reused parts of the two songs. I don't know which came first so I can't tell you which borrows from the other. I'm not sure whether he was cutting corners or whether he did this as some sort of trademark thing, or whether it was supposed to be slightly ironic, or what...

Anyway I had to put this down in words as it has been bugging me. Just some random trivia for you to remember and spout at people when you're in the pub and one of those two songs plays on the jukebox, then everyone will look at you with admiration and adoration for having such a remarkable general knowledge of all things musical.