All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. It may be easy to dismiss this as ridiculous, but there's real style and craft here and its kitsch is intentional.

There's no discounting the production of Todd Rundgren, either, who gives Steinman's self-styled grandiosity a production that's staggeringly big but never overwhelming and always alluring. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.

It's a "this is another Meat Loaf song you may know" situation rather than anything that supplements one's appreciation of the album.When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.

And there never could have been a singer more suited for his compositions than Meat Loaf, a singer partial to bombast, albeit shaded bombast. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. There has been a noticeable increase in the clarity and detail of the music especially on the quieter more 'ballardy' tracks like 'Heaven Can Wait' and sections of 'For Crying Out Loud' .Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. It was tough getting a copy in the UK but finally mine arrived this morning after a 5 week journey from the US. This is Grand Guignol pop - epic, gothic, operatic, and silly, and it's appealing because of all of this.

It has 3 songs that are around 10 minute long, but with such musicality and variation that you never have the feeling of wanting it to end.

Years after it was released, the 16x platinum selling Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell is to be repressed on vinyl for the first time since its initial release.