Biography
Meat Loaf's music has all the ingredients for such a marriage - the grandiosity, the sweeping emotions, the change in moods, the courage to defy convention.The singer admits as much himself. 'The songs are crying out for this, really, believes the singer, 'they're very long, very dramatic and melodramatic - even operatic. So of course they're perfectly suited to being played with an opera. The live CD release does seems like it's been a long time coming, you can rest assured that it feels exactly the same way for its creator. In 1976, when the young Meat Loaf was recording his monumental Bat Out Of Hell' set with writer Jim Steinman and producer Todd Rundgren, the writer and singer discussed the possibility of recording the seven songs with an orchestra, but the idea was shelved because of scheduling and budgeting constraints. So Bat Out Of Hell' emerged in 1977 without any accompaniment; its compositions have had to wait a further 27 years for this augmentation.
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