Cinematic from its very beginning, “Bat Out of Hell” builds around Meat Loaf’s vocals, which come in nearly two minutes into the song. Inspired by the Shangri-Las 1965 motorcycle tragedy “ ...

Jim Steinman dies at 73: 'Bat Out of Hell' songwriter and producer also ... Meat Loaf hits the road on his silver Black Phantom motorbike and proclaims to his lady, “You know I want to be ...

Depending on who you ask, “Bat Out of Hell” either bastardized Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” or it revved up a silver black phantom bike and screamed bloody murder down the road ...

The composer behind Meat Loaf’s 1977 “Bat Out of Hell” (more than 43 million ... to go all the way with her new man, a killer motorcycle accident that isn’t, and a finale that turns ...

But his career-defining achievement was “Bat Out of Hell,” a record that no major ... which opens the record and is about a motorcycle crash, is a mini-opera in itself, clocking in at 9 ...

“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 ...

Meat Loaf's 1977 album 'Bat Out of Hell' re-enters this week's #Billboard200 chart at No. 13, following his death on Jan. 20. It last appeared on the chart in October 1979. The set originally ...

Meat Loaf, the larger-than-life singer whose bombastic rock opera “Bat Out of Hell” is one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died at age 74, according to a statement on his verified ...

Steinman was known for his operatic pop-rock compositions and lyrics, never in fuller display than on Bat Out of Hell, for which ... imitating the sound of a motorcycle. "My songs are anthems ...

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 ...