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 ...

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 peaked ...

There's has been renewed interest in Meat Loaf's music catalog, with streaming numbers surging in the aftermath of the singer's death. According to Billboard, streams of the musician's catalog have ...

“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 ...

On this day (October 21) in 1977, Meat Loaf released Bat Out of Hell. The album was the result of multiple years of work with songwriter Jim Steinman. Produced by Tod Rundgren, the theatrical LP ...

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” and “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” has ...

Is it possible one of the best-selling rock albums ever never even reached the top 10 in the '70s? Yep. Meat Loaf songs are filled with parenthetical clauses, so it feels appropriate to use one in the ...