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| Genre = | Length = 46:33 | Label = Cleveland International / Epic PE-34974 | Producer = Todd Rundgren | Last album = ''Stoney & Meatloaf'' (1971) | This album = ''Bat Out of Hell'' (1977) | Next album = ''Dead Ringer'' (1981) | Misc = }} ''Bat Out of Hell'' is the second album and major-label debut by American rock singer Meat Loaf, as well as being his first collaboration with composer Jim Steinman, released in October 1977 on Cleveland International/Epic Records. It is one of the best-selling albums in the history of recorded music, having sold over 43 million copies worldwide. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked it at number 343 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003. Its musical style is influenced by Steinman's appreciation of Richard Wagner, Phil Spector, Bruce Springsteen and The Who. ''Bat Out of Hell'' has been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as a platinum album, fourteen times over.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?tesultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Meatloaf&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2011&sort=Artist&perPage=25 )〕 As of May 2015, it has spent 485 weeks in the UK Charts. The album went on to become one of the most influential and iconic albums of all time and its songs have remained classic rock staples. This album's title also became the title for two more Meat Loaf albums. Steinman produced the album ''Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell'' (1993). Desmond Child produced the album ''Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose'' (2006). ==Pre-production== The album developed from a musical, ''Neverland'', a sci-fi update of ''Peter Pan'', which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974, and performed at the Kennedy Center Music Theatre Lab in 1977. Steinman and Meat Loaf, who were touring with the National Lampoon show, felt that three songs were "exceptional" and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven-song set they wanted to record as an album. The three songs were "Bat Out of Hell", "Heaven Can Wait" and "The Formation of the Pack", which was later retitled "All Revved Up with No Place to Go". ''Bat Out of Hell'' is often compared to the music of Bruce Springsteen, particularly the album ''Born to Run''. Steinman says that he finds that "puzzling, musically", although they share influences; "Springsteen was more an inspiration than an influence."〔 A BBC article added, "that Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan from Springsteen's E Street Band played on the album only helped reinforce the comparison."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=BBC Radio 2 )〕 Steinman and Meat Loaf had immense difficulty finding a record company willing to sign them. According to Meat Loaf's autobiography, the band spent most of 1975 writing and recording material, and two and a half years auditioning the record and being rejected. Manager David Sonenberg jokes that they were ''creating'' record companies just so they could be rejected.〔 Dir: Bob Smeaton〕 They performed the album live in 1976, with Steinman on piano, Meat Loaf singing, and sometimes Ellen Foley joining them for "Paradise". Steinman says that it was a "medley of the most brutal rejections you could imagine."〔 Meat Loaf "almost cracked" when CBS executive Clive Davis rejected the project.〔 The singer recounts the incident in his autobiography. Not only did Davis, according to Meat Loaf, say that "actors don't make records", the executive challenged Steinman's writing abilities and knowledge of rock music: Do you know how to write a song? Do you know ''anything'' about writing? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C. You don't know ''how'' to write a song... Have you ever listened to pop music? Have you ever heard any rock-and-roll music... You should go downstairs when you leave here... and buy some rock-and-roll records.〔Clive Davis, as recalled by Meat Loaf, in Meat Loaf/Dalton, pg. 117.〕 Meat Loaf asserts "Jim, at the time, knew every record ever made. () is a walking rock encyclopedia." Although Steinman laughed off the insults, the singer screamed "Fuck you, Clive!" from the street up to his building.〔Meat Loaf/Dalton, pg. 117.〕 However, Todd Rundgren found the album hilarious, thinking that it was a parody of Springsteen. The singer quotes him as saying: "I've ''got'' to do this album. It's just so ''out'' there." They told the producer that they had previously been signed to RCA.〔 In one 1989 interview with ''Classic Rock'' magazine, Steinman labeled him "the only genuine genius I've ever worked with."〔 In a 1989 interview with Redbeard for the ''In the Studio with Redbeard'' episode on the making of the album, Meat Loaf revealed that Jimmy Iovine and Andy Johns were potential candidates for producing ''Bat Out of Hell'' before being rejected by Meat and Steinman in favor of Rundgren, who Meat initially found cocky but grew to like. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bat Out of Hell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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