CLASSIC TRACK Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell 1977

Jim Steinman (left) originally wrote the near-10-minute rock classic for a Peter Pan musical. Thank heavens he met Meat Loaf first.

music & movies classic track 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 any other album ever produced that is viewed so favourably as one recognisable, self-standing entity? Did it even need singles? It was meant to be devoured in one ravenous sitting, and that's exactly how we all did it. If anything represents the concept of ‘album rock’, it's 1977's ‘Bat Out Of Hell’. It defines album rock. And it's probably the greatest standalone rock album ever made. It's also completely ridiculous — albeit in the best way possible. Consider the source: Meat, a sweaty, overweight leather-lunged theatre kid hungry for an…

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