'Bat Out of Hell' singer Meat Loaf dies aged 74

Meat Loaf, the US rock star whose debut "Bat Out of Hell" became one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died aged 74.

Delivering epic anthems about love, lust and motorcycles with an intensity bordering on melodrama, Meat Loaf became an enduring - and sometimes bombastic - rock icon in the late 1970s.

The singer and actor, otherwise known as...