Meat Loaf

He got his name, the story goes, when he was a high-school football player growing up in Texas. When he stepped on his coach's foot accidentally, the coach called him a "big hunk of meat loaf". When he began his performing career, he adopted the term as his stage name.

"Paradise By the Dashboard Light" is about a boy who wants sexual intercourse with a girl. She agrees on the condition that he will love her for ever. He reluctantly agrees. Afterwards he regrets his promise but does not want to break it: he prays for the end of time, so he can end his time with her.

His album Bat out of Hell, with words and music by Jim Steinman, was a huge commercial and critical success. In addition to "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", the album also featured "Two out of Three Ain't Bad".