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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, ...