Bat Out of Hell Live
Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman came together in 1974 when Meat Loaf auditioned for a show written by Steinman called More Than You deserve. At the time of the audition Steinman was telling people that Meat Loaf should be singing 'Wagnarian Rock Opera' and dubbed Meat Loaf 'His Voice'. A 1974 piece called Neverland was work shopped by the pair although at the time Meatloaf's other commitments took precedence. The songs were worked on for the next two years. By early 1977 working once more with Jim Steinman, Neverland was going to be another musical, a rock version of Peter Pan and although it did receive a limited run neither Steinman nor Meat Loaf were happy with the production values which were nowhere near grandiose enough for either of them. They began stripping away the non-musical segments and slowly Neverland metamorphosed into Bat Out Of Hell. Recording began in late 1975 with Todd Rundgren drafting in musicians including Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg from Bruce Springsteen's E Street band. This would give the critics some justification when they claimed Bat Out Of Hell sounded like a Bruce Springsteen album, more specifically Born To Run. Rundgren, Steinman and Meat Loaf denied this however claiming Bruce to be an inspiration rather than an influence.. Since then of course Bat Out Of Hell has become one of those albums everyone should own and has gone on to sell an estimated forty three million copies worldwide and continues to sell in excess of two hundred thousand copies each year. This concert performance is taken from a radio broadcast in New York and features Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf along with a band large enough to give the album the live performances it deserved.
Meat Loaf   Format: Audio CD
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