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 ...

Clocking in at nearly 10 minutes, “Bat Out of Hell” opens one of the top 10 best-selling albums of all time of the same name. Meaning “to move very quickly,” the origins of the phrase “Bat Out of Hell ...

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 ...

Unless you were really into classical music or on a Broadway kick at the time, it might have been hard to get your head around Meat Loaf's “Bat Out of Hell” in 1977. It was like nothing else, a ...

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