In the mid-70's Meat started to work with a Wagnerian writer by the name of Jim Steinman. Meat and Jim began collaborating on songs that would become the record breaking hit "Bat Out of Hell" album. They had some initial problems financing this venture until producer Todd Rundgren stepped in and offered his skills. The album, written by Steinman, sung by Meat Loaf, and featured performances by a mixture of musicians from The E-Street Band and Utopia was a blockbuster success.

Meat followed Bat Out of Hell up with the album, "Dead Ringer" in 1981, featuring the track, "Dead Ringer for Love" a duet with Cher. He then released the three following albums, "Midnight at the Lost and Found", "Bad Attitude" and "Blind Before I Stop", in 1983, 1984, and 1986. All of the so called "middle albums" met with moderate success overseas but were not blockbusters in America.

In 1993, Meat Loaf released "Bat Out of Hell 2", another collaboration with Steinman and Rundgren. This album was a worldwide best seller and spawned 3 hit singles. Following this, Meat and the Neverland Express embarked on a 3 year tour ending in early 1995.

In late 1995, Meat released "Welcome to the Neighborhood" which featured some Steinman compositions but was not wholly a MeatLoaf/Steinman project. It did spawn the hit single "I'd Lie for You and That's the Truth," a duet between Meat Loaf and Patricia Russo. In 1996, Meat released the album, "Live Around the World."

Meat revived his acting career in recent years, and has worked steadily since on tv and in film. Recent acting included "Nash Bridges", "Everything that Rises", "The Mighty", "Spiceworld", "Gun Shy", "The Fight Club", "Dead Man's Gun", "Rustin", "Crazy in Alabama", and "Blacktop" as well.

His Greatest Hits album, "The Very Best of Meat Loaf" was released in 1998, with three new songs penned by Jim Steinman. "A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste", "Is Nothing Sacred" and "No Matter What".

"Is Nothing Sacred" was a song originally recorded, but turned down, by Celine Dion. Meat released this as a single overseas, but before doing so, re-recorded the song to be a duet with Patti Russo again. A tour for the Greatest Hits album took place in the early months of 1999.

The fall of 1999 found Meat promoting his movies, "The Fight Club" and "Crazy in Alabama". He also released a live compact disc of his Storytellers' show and a video and DVD of the show were released as well. He then embarked on the "VH-1 Storytellers Tour", which was the first concert of it's type.

In 2001, Meat concentrated once again on his music career and devoted a lot of time in between movie roles to work on an album, whose title had been changed from "Funhouse" to "Testify." (and was finally released as "Couldn't Have Said It Better.")

Meat performed at two sold out shows in Atlantic City in September 2001, before embarking on the European "Night of the Proms" tour for the rest of the year.

The year 2002 Meat Loaf toured the USA and The UK as a prequel to his 2003 world tour and promotion for his album,to be released in early 2003. Also, the end of 2002 found a few more movie projects for Meat, including the release of Formula 51, starring Samuel L. Jackson.

Couldn't Have Said It Better, was released in 2003. It's his first studio album since 1995's Welcome to the Neighborhood, and the songs are written by a variety of writers, including Nikki Sixx, James Michael, Diane Warren and Steven Trask. Meat Loaf feels this is his best collaborative effort since Bat Out of Hell and the end result is 'simply incredible.' It should be, it took over four years in the studio to be made!

He and his band embarked in 2003 on what was said to be Meat's Last World Tour, but it is also a tour to promote the latest album. This was before he began working on his most recent album, "Bat Out of Hell III," and was reinspired to promote his music to the masses around the world. He is currently on tour with his "Seize the Night"/"3 Bats" tour and wowing packed audiences with new and old hits alike. Don't miss it!