Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meat Loaf's seminal 1977 debut, "Bat Out of Hell," was his magnum opus, an epic showpiece of grandiose melodrama and bombastic ...

First of all, Bat Out Of Hell isn’t even the best song on the album. But it is the title track, and therefore the most representative of that mammoth, life-changing, world-eating magnum opus. Is there ...

At nearly 10 minutes long, "Bat Out of Hell" broke just about every rule for a hit rock song. Yet the Todd Rundgren-produced epic became the defining track of Meat Loaf's career and helped launch one ...

The dean of all music arbiters of taste, Robert Christgau, didn’t appreciate Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell” when it was released in 1977. The former Village Voice columnist, whose documentary, “The Last ...

"Bat Out of Hell – The Musical" will bring songs from Meat Loaf's 1977 debut and its two follow-up albums to the Palace Theatre on April 19. The show was originally conceived by composer and longtime ...