The Very Best of Meat Loaf

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batoutofhellmusical.com, Bat Out of Hell |. "Bat Out of Hell". Bat Out of Hell . Retrieved April 8, 2018. Parri, Linda (October 23, 2011). "Meat Loaf blasts the AFL and 'butt smellers' ". Herald Sun. Archived from the original on June 23, 2014. Meat Loaf tells Rolling Stone about stage collapse in Edmonton". CBC News. July 26, 2016. Archived from the original on January 23, 2022. In 1995, Meat Loaf released his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood. The album went platinum in the United States and the United Kingdom. [63] It included three singles that hit the top 40, including " I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (which reached No. 13 in the United States [64] and No. 2 in the UK), [65] and " Not a Dry Eye in the House" (which reached No. 7 in the UK chart). [66] I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth) was a duet with Patti Russo, who had been touring with Meat Loaf and singing on his albums since 1993. Of the twelve songs on the album, two are written by Steinman. Both are cover versions, the "Original Sin" from Pandora's Box's Original Sin album and "Left in the Dark" first appeared on Steinman's own Bad for Good as well as the 1984 album Emotion by Barbra Streisand. His other singles, "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" and "Not a Dry Eye in the House", were written by Diane Warren. [67]

RIAA Top 100 Albums". riaa.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007 . Retrieved August 22, 2007.

a b c d "Dutch Charts > Meat Loaf" (in Dutch). dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien . Retrieved August 5, 2011. Bat Out of Hell has sold over 43 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. [4] It is certified 14× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). [5] It is also the best-selling album in Australia, having been certified 26× Platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). [6] As of June 2019, it has spent 522 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, the second longest chart run by a studio album. [7] In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. [8] [9] On October 25, 2012, Meat Loaf endorsed Mitt Romney for president, citing poor Russia–United States relations as a major reason he had been "arguing for Mitt Romney for a year". [142] He said, "I have never been in any political agenda in my life, but I think that in 2012 this is the most important election in the history of the United States." He then said there are "storm clouds" over the United States and "thunder storms" over Europe: "There are hail storms – and I mean major hail storms! – in the Middle East. There are storms brewing through China, through Asia, through everywhere." [142] The same day, he performed " America the Beautiful" standing next to Romney. [141] [143]

Savage, Mark (October 14, 2022). "Meat Loaf tops chart of biggest-selling debut albums in UK history". BBC . Retrieved December 22, 2022. a b Sullivan, Caroline (April 15, 2010). "Meat Loaf: Hang Cool, Teddy Bear". The Guardian. Archived from the original on December 1, 2016. Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (February 7, 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5.Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music Week. January 11, 1992. p.21. ISSN 0265-1548– via World Radio History. Nelson, Jeff; Duncan, Gabrielle (January 24, 2022). "Meat Loaf's Wife Deborah Aday Recalls Love Story with Late Husband: 'He Was My World' ". People. Archived from the original on January 24, 2022. Official Charts "The Official Charts Company > Meat Loaf". Official Charts Company . Retrieved September 27, 2011. I never thought of them as personal songs in terms of my own life but they were personality songs. They were all about my obsessions and images. None of them takes place in a normal world. They all take place in an extreme world. Very operatic...they were all heightened. They don't take place in normal reality. [19]