Bat Out of Hell

Personnel: Meat Loaf, Ellen Foley (vocals); Todd Rundgren (guitar, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Edgar Winter (saxophone); Roy Bittan (piano, keyboards); Steve Margoshes, Cheryl Hardwick (piano); Jim Steinman (keyboards, percussion); Roger Powell (keyboards); Kasim Sultan (bass, background vocals); Max Weinberg, John Wilcox (drums); Marvin Lee (percussion); Rory Dodd, Phil Rizzuto (background vocals).
Recorded at Bearsville Sound, Bearsville, New York; Utopia Sound, Lake Hill, New York; The Hit Factory, New York, New York; House Of Music, West Orange, New Jersey; and Nassau Colliseum, Hempstead, New York.
Personnel: Ellen Foley (vocals, background vocals); Todd Rundgren (guitar, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Davey Johnstone (guitar); Edgar Winter (saxophone); Alan Rubin, Lew Del Gatto, Tom "Bones" Malone (horns); Roy Bittan (piano, keyboards); Cheryl Hardwick (piano); Jim Steinman (keyboards, percussion); Max Weinberg, Liberty DeVitto (drums); Jimmy Maelen (percussion); Kasim Sulton, Rory Dodd (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Michael Brauer; Todd Rundgren.
Audio Remixers: Jimmy Iovine; John Jansen.
Recording information: Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, NY; House Of Music, West Orange, NJ; Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY; Quad Recording, New York, NY; The Hit Factory, New York, NY; Utopia Sound, Lake Hill, NY.
Illustrator: Richard Corben.
Photographer: Frank Laffitte.
Arrangers: Steve Margoshes; Jim Steinman; Todd Rundgren.
Pomp and circumstance of the grandest order for the multi-platinum Meat Loaf and his songwriting mentor, Jim Steinman. The grandiose intro to the title track was indication enough of the tone of the album, with songs stretching out over what at times seemed like musical infinity. Steinman set his songs in evocative wastelands populated by full orchestras and small-town weirdos, 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light' an entire two-handed play in itself, and 'Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad', an overblown symphony of regret and unrequited love. Between them, they pretty much provided the balance of the album. A huge success, only to be repeated by its follow-up in 1993.