Meat Loaf documentary opens in select cities

Meat Loaf's first-ever behind the scenes documentary, called In Search Of Paradise, opens in select cities in North America on March 31st.

The film chronicles his 2007 Canadian tour and the critical uproar following his performance of the Bat Out Of Hell classic "Paradise By The Dashboard Light," which features him duetting on the suggestive song with a petite 25-year-old backing singer. Meat Loaf goes to great lengths to restructure the number in an effort to not seem "creepy" by performing the tune with a woman half his age. The film depicts him going so far as reprising his late '70s look of long hair and a tuxedo in an effort to show that the song is a "fantasy."

The film's director Bruce Klein explained that although it was easy for Meat Loaf to fall back into the character he played during his late '70s heyday, it was even easier for his audience: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "We have this desire to freeze icons at a specific time and a specific place. And there's this issue of, you know, 'Can an icon evolve?' And everyone wants to see him frozen in time in 1978 with the greasy hair and yet now it's 30 years on. I think it speaks to how powerful that character he created; that red bandanna and that long hair and the tuxedo -- it's the most unlikely, bizarre character."

The film features a cameo by Meat Loaf's good friend Dennis Quaid popping by and sitting in with the band during a live performance of the Them classic "Gloria."

Meat Loaf's In Search Of Paradise will have a limited run before heading to DVD.

Last year Meat Loaf released his live CD and DVD 3 Bats Live.
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