MEAT LOAF: There Is A MOUNTAIN

Several months back, members of the British press were alerted to the availability of new Meat Loaf product through a harrowing round of those dopey mockbattlefield games where people shoot paint pellets at each other. Luckily for this healthy, sexually secure American journalist, Meat—who’s in New York promoting his new LP, Blind Before I Stop, and preparing to launch a six-and-a-half month tour—is feeling overworked and under the weather, and is in no mood to subject me to anything more strenuous than a sit-down interview.