10 Famous Albums You Didn't Know Were Almost Completely Different

Even though rock and roll singer Meat Loaf is most well-known for his collaborations with song-writer Jim Steinman in the form of Bat Out Of Hell and Bat Out Of Hell: II Back Into Hell (albums which spawned phenomenally successful singles such as I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That and Paradise By The Dashboard Light, the musician's second studio release almost took a much more traditional form.

Bat Out Of Hell was preceded by 1971's Stoney & Meatloaf, a collaboration with female vocalist Shaun Murphy. The record was a quaint soul record that didn't see much success. Soon after Steinman and Meat Loaf met while touring with the National Lampoon show, however, and began working on material together. What ultimately led to the album being a vastly more traditional release, however, was the immense trouble the two had finding a record company willing to sign them. The search for a label took almost three whole years, at which point it almost decided that the songs should follow a more traditional structure after a rejection from CBS executive Clive Davis.

In fact, Davis actually accused Steinman of not knowing how to write songs and failing to fundamentally understand song structure.