If there is one song that consistently garnered criticism on Bad for Good, it was “Left in the Dark,” not for anything about the song itself but for Steinman’s vocal, which was described as “weak” by the kindest critics and typically described in far worse terms. It was never released as a single (Indeed, “Rock…

While Steinman had gone to producing others’ work after Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Meat Loaf immediately jumped on trying to continue his career revival. Apparently, Steinman advised him to do something completely unlike Bat out of Hell for his next album, but instead Meat Loaf assembled a band mostly of Bat…

Fresh off the success of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Steinman lent one of the Original Sin tracks to Hollywood to be used as a theme to the film The Shadow (Russell Mulcahy, USA 1994), based on a 1930s character probably best known from a 1937 radio drama series. (“Who knows what…