Meat Loaf

Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler had great success in much of Europe throughout the late '70s and early '80s, but she seemed destined to be a one-hit wonder in the US on the strength of her lone Top Ten hit, "It's A Heartache," which hit #3 in 1978. One problem was her American record label that had tried to steer her into the direction of more country-oriented material.

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Producer and composer Jim Steinman first crossed paths with singer Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, when the latter was in the cast of an off-Broadway musical penned by the former. Several years later, the two formed a creative team as Steinman wrote and produced Meat Loaf's phenomenally successful Bat Out Of Hell debut/ Released in 1978, that album spawned a trio of US Top 40 singles and was one of the best-selling albums of the '70s.

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