Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

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Classic Albums: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (1999)

Directed by Bob Smeaton

Documentary, Music · 1h 00m

Never one for understatement, the aptly named singer known as Meat Loaf (aka Marvin Lee Aday) teamed with operatically-minded pianist-composer Jim Steinman to produce a bombastic slab of 1970s classic rock that has become one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Fueled by Steinman's epic compositions, Todd Rundgren's grandiose production, and Meat Loaf's own soaring vocals, the singer's 1977 debut BAT OUT OF HELL elevated the rock-opera genre to appropriately theatrical heights with its extravagant orchestration and a melodramatic narrative celebrating teenage rebellion. This episode of the CLASSIC ALBUMS series recounts the making of this monumental work through interviews, archival footage, and live performances of album tracks such as "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth," "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," and, of course, the adolescent opus "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

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Cast

Meat Loaf Self Karla DeVito Self - Backing Vocalist Ellen Foley Self - Backing Vocalist Jim Steinman Self Todd Rundgren Self - Record Producer and Musician Max Weinberg Self - Drummer
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Rory Dodd Self - Backing Vocalist

Crew

Director
Bob Smeaton
Producer
Nick De Grunwald

Details

Release date
1999-01-01
Runtime
1h 00m
Genres
Documentary, Music
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Isis Production, Eagle Vision