Bat Hell facts
While investigating facts about Bat Hell, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album is a rock opera telling the story of man dying in a motorcycle accident and recollecting his life as he lays there dying
The songwriter behind Meat Loaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' also wrote Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of My Heart' and Celine Dion's 'It’s All Coming Back to Me Now'
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Bat Hell I managed to collect.
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Total Eclipse of the Heart" is about vampires and was originally written for a vampire musical by the same guy who wrote Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell
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Bat Out of Hell was released in 1977, but Meat Loaf didn't get any royalties from CBS until 1997
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Meat Loaf's album "Bat Out of Hell" has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide and continues to sell an estimated 200,000 copies annually nearly 40 years after it was released.
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Meatloaf's 1977 album "Bat out of Hell" was based on a futuristic rock opera based on Peter Pan.
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In the late 90's a Batman musical was planned. It was to be written by Jim Steinman, the composer behind Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell. The project was never completed but recordings of some of the songs are available online.
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The actress that portrayed the Public Defender Billie Young on the sitcom Night Court was also the singer who frequently sang duets with Meat Loaf on the Bat Out of Hell album.
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"Bat Out of Hell" was intended by producer Todd Rundgen to spoof Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run"... and Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman weren't in on the joke.
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The Bat Out Of Hell tour was delayed for 6 hours when German immigration investigated a US passport with the name, Mr. Meat Loaf.
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According to "Bat Out Of Hell" compose Jim Steinman, Andrew Lloyd Webber approached him to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera because Lloyd Webber felt that his "dark obsessive side" fit in with the project, but Steinman declined in order to fulfill his commitments to a Bonnie Tyler album
