“It was a chance to go back to that world and explore it deeper. “I didn't call it Bat Out of Hell II just to identify with the first record,” said Steinman of the album they made together. Soon they properly reactivated their musical partnership and hatched a plan to do the one thing guaranteed to put them back in the game: make a sequel to Bat Out Of Hell. They hadn’t exactly lost touch, but a series of lawsuits meant that, as Steinman put it, “we were hardly exchanging recipes.” But somehow these two rock’n’roll exoplanets re-entered each others’ orbits over Christmas 1989, when Steinman visited Meat’s house and the pair began playing Bat Out Of Hell together on the piano. Steinman was still making music – with Bonnie Tyler, the Sisters Of Mercy, his all-female group Pandora’s Box and even, for a couple of tracks on Meat Loafs underpowered 1984 album Bad Attitude, his old partner-in-crime – but the fact was they missed each other. The creative furnace which powered Bat Out Of Hell had flamed out soon after follow-up Deadringer, choked by circumstance, ego and bone-headed idiocy. Meat Loaf in 1992: having fun at the Ixtapa Zihuatane Celebrity Sports Invitational at Westin Ixtapa Resort in Ixtapa, Mexico (Image credit: Ron Galella/Getty Images)
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