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…

Typically, I call Pyromania by Def Leppard my favorite album of all time, even though I would take the start of Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell over it any time, because I feel like the latter loses some steam after it opens with six all-time great songs. Listening back to it, I…

Here we have the second and final cover from the Original Sin album (I covered the original here.); and, while there are some changes here, it is not incredibly different from its predecessor. Completely unchanged from the Pandora’s Box version are the lyrics, the structure, and the melody. Meat Loaf obviously replaces Holly Sherwood in…