This section of the site takes a brief look at the subsequent careers of both Stoney and Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf would of course have the higher profile musical career but both are still very much part of the music business some thirty years after the Motown sessions

Meat Loaf went on to team up with Jim Steinman and together they produced the famous "Bat Out Of Hell" album. Vocal problems prevented a swift follow up and though one eventually appeared it never quite hit the same heights. Jim Steinman moved on to work with other artists and Meat's career declined until revived by stunning live performances in the late eighties. Meat and Jim got back together again in the early nineties to produce "Bat Out of Hell 2" which yielded Meat's first number 1 hit single "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Wont Do That)"

Meat has continued to record new songs and do concert tours during the nineties but towards the end of the decade and in the first year of the new millennium devoted time to his other great love that is acting having played serious parts in numerous films. However a major shift back to the music business has been made in the last few years firstly with a new album of studio recordings "Couldn't Have Said It Better" released in 2003 which was followed by a World Tour.

Then the year 2006 saw the release of Bat Out Of Hell 3. However though the album contained quite a few Jim Steinman songs it was completed without his involvement. It has failed to have the same impact as the first two Bat Out Of Hell albums though there have been very successful tours of Europe and the US in 2007 particularly in the UK and Meat’s popularity continues to be demonstrated there by sell out gigs in the larger Arenas throughout the country

Stoney went on to be a backing singer for Bob Seger's band soon after splitting with Motown. However by the early eighties she had dropped the moniker of Stoney and became known as Shaun Murphy. She continued to work with Bob Seger until the mid nineties and also in this period worked with Michael Bolton, the Moody Blues, Bruce Hornsby, Alice Cooper, Phil Collins and Eric Clapton.

In 1994 Shaun joined the band Little Feat. This band has existed since as far back as 1969 when it was formed by Lowell George. The band produced a number of critically acclaimed albums in the seventies but had already split at the time of Lowell's death during a solo tour in 1979. However the remaining members of the band got back together again in the mid-eighties and with the addition of a new lead vocalist, Craig Fuller, began recording new songs and returned to touring. Shaun provided some backing vocals on the bands three albums released between1988 and 1991 and when Craig Fuller decided to leave the band, having had enough of the constant touring, Shaun was invited to join the band full time. The band's first release with Shaun as a fully-fledged member of the band was "Ain't Had Enough Fun". This release in particular showcases her talents as Shaun provides the lead vocals or duets with another member of the band on nine of the thirteen tracks. She can also be heard providing some of the lead vocals on their subsequent studio albums "Under The Radar", "Chinese Work Songs" and "Kickin' It At The Barn" as well as their recent live recording "Down Upon The Suwannee River".

Towards the end of 2006 Shaun took a few months leave from Little Feat to once again become a backing vocalist on Bob Seger’s recent US tour. She returned to her role in Little Feat in March 2007

There is an MP3 file of Shaun Murphy performing, as lead singer for the band Little Feat, a song entitled "Long Distance Love" live on stage in 2001 in the audio section

For additional information about Little Feat and an extensive selection of photos of Shaun Murphy performing on stage with the band visit the excellent Official Little Feat Web Site

Finally, as an interesting aside, in one of those seemingly quite common musical coincidences Little Feat’s keyboardist, Bill Payne, actually played the piano on three of the tracks on Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell 2 album.

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