Meat Loaf songs are filled with parenthetical clauses, so it feels appropriate to use one in the service of explaining what happened with his 1977 “Bat Out of Hell” album on the new Billboard 200 ...

“Bat Out of Hell” still needed a home. Steinman and Meat Loaf wrote and recorded the album that would become “Bat Out of Hell” with Todd Rundgren as producer in 1975. They then spent two and half ...

Steinman was that musical theater nerd. The songwriter got his start working on the fringes of the Broadway scene, developing elaborate stage musicals with songs that would evolve into Bat Out of Hell ...

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Meat Loaf, whose legacy spans long-revered works across music and film, is dead. The Bat Out of Hell trilogy crafter—born Marvin Lee Aday—was confirmed to have died late Thursday night in a statement ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three ...

Singer Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album is among the best-selling and most enduring rock albums of the 1970s, died on Jan. 20 at the age of 74. A consummate performer, he also appeared as an ...

Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t ...

Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album, has died at age 74. File photo: Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former ...