Bat out of Hell is the extremely successful second album of singer Meat Loaf, released in 1977. The album was not an immediate hit; it was more of a growing one.
Bat out of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 34 million copies worldwide, 16 million in the US alone, becoming one of the biggest selling albums of all time.
It remained 474 weeks in the UK charts. In 2003, the album was ranked number 343 on Rolling Stone magazine´s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is also one of only two albums that have never exited the top 200 in the UK charts. This makes it the longest stay in any chart in the world.
In 1993 a sequel called Bat out of Hell II. A second sequel, to be called Bat out of Hell III - "The Monster Is Loose", is scheduled for an October 2006 release. |
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"Ozzy" Osbourne (also called THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS born in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the lead singer of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and is a popular solo artist and reality television star.
Osbourne garnered still greater celebrity status by the unlikely success of his own brand of reality television. The Osbournes, a series featuring the domestic life of Osbourne and his family (wife Sharon, children Jack and Kelly, but not his oldest daughter Aimee, who declined to participate), has turned into one of MTV´s greatest hits.
Osbourne and wife Sharon were invited to the White House. Bush noted Ozzy´s presence by making a couple jokes such as: "The thing about Ozzy is he´s made a lot of big hit recordings: Party With the Animals, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath, Face in Hell, Black Skies and Bloodbath in Paradise. Ozzy, Mom loves your stuff."
In May 2005, the tremors he experienced and always linked to his continuous drug abuse were diagnosed as Parkinsonian Syndrome, a non-progressive genetic condition, the symptoms of which are very similar to Parkinsons disease.
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