Library Rock's Backpages

Meat Loaf: Loaf Story, Or How To Sell Eight Million Albums When Nobody’s Looking

Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 17 September 1981

MEAT LOAF'S Bat Out Of Hell album was unquestionably one of the rock phenomena of the last decade. And, of course, success is wonderful... but just imagine the prospect he surveys this month as at long last he releases his new one, Dead Ringer. It’s a murderous case of ‘Right then, follow that!’

Total word count of piece: 1059

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.