Bat Out Of Hell

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The album continues to sell about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 34-40 million copies worldwide, [60] [61] including 14 million in the United States [62] and over 1.7 million albums in Australia, where it is the country's highest-selling album as of 2016, being certified 25× platinum. [63] [64] The album has stayed on the UK Albums Chart for 522 weeks, [65] making it the UK's fourth longest charting studio album behind Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. [66] In 2022, Bat Out of Hell was named as the biggest-selling debut album in UK chart history. [67] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4thed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734. 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] Merey, Andy (October 3, 2017). "Opinion | Whitby's Andy Merey on Meat Loaf: rags to riches and setting the record straight". DurhamRegion.com . Retrieved February 25, 2020.

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Scapolo, Dean (2007). The Complete New Zealand Music Charts 1966–2006. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-877443-00-8. ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2007". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved February 21, 2021. Stephen Erlewine in AllMusic writes that "this is Grand Guignol pop—epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because of all of this." He thinks that Steinman is "a composer without peer, simply because nobody else wanted to make mini-epics like this." Rundgren's production is applauded, as is the wit in the music and lyrics. "It may elevate adolescent passion to operatic dimensions, and that's certainly silly, but it's hard not to marvel at the skill behind this grandly silly, irresistible album." [1]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. 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] The Historian (April 4, 2009), Jim Steinman talks about 'You Took the Words...' , archived from the original on November 15, 2021 , retrieved April 7, 2018

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Offiziellecharts.de – Meat Loaf – Bat Out of Hell" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved October 1, 2016. RIAA Top 100 Albums". riaa.com. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007 . Retrieved August 22, 2007.

The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. November 18, 2003. Archived from the original on August 24, 2007 . Retrieved August 22, 2007.

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For Crying Out Loud" was originally written for the 1975 New York Shakespeare Festival musical Kid Champion, and a recording by an unknown artist is in the New York Public Library archives. [41] Jim Steinman considers the line "And can't you see my faded Levi's bursting apart" his most daring lyric on the entire album. [42] The Historian (April 4, 2009), Jim Steinman talks about 'Two Out of Three...' , archived from the original on November 15, 2021 , retrieved April 7, 2018 Das Album "Bat Out of Hell" ist zweifellos ein Meisterwerk der Musikgeschichte. Die unvergleichliche und opulente Musik von Jim Steinman in Kombination mit dem kraftvollen Gesang von Meat Loaf machen dieses Album zu einem wahren Juwel. Es ist schwer, die Faszination und Energie, die von den Songs ausgeht, in Worte zu fassen.batoutofhellmusical.com, Bat Out of Hell |. "Bat Out of Hell". Bat Out of Hell . Retrieved April 8, 2018. Pearlman, Jeff (August 29, 2007). "Phil and Meat Loaf will always have "Paradise" ". ESPN . Retrieved August 28, 2009.