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Meat goes to the movies: A look at Meat Loaf's cinematic exploits

Few rockers seem more worthy of the title "actor/musician" than Meat Loaf, a performer who, over the course of more than three decades, has made music that has been nothing if not theatrical. Classic epics such as "Bat out of Hell," "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" feel like great films boiled down to their bare essentials - sex, motorcycles, loss and redemption.

Review: Meat Loaf at the Paramount Theater

Sure, Meat Loaf gave the people what they wanted on Friday night (Dec. 5) when he served up plenty of his biggest hits during his show at Asbury Park's Paramount Theater. However, from the evening's opening number - a cover of the Eagles of Death Metal's "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" - it was clear that the singer and his band were determined to keep things interesting.