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Meat Loaf Sues Sony: The rock singer, whose 1977 “Bat Out of Hell” remains one of the best-selling albums in pop history, filed a $20-million fraud lawsuit in New York against Sony Music Entertainment. The action is an amended complaint to a suit filed by the entertainer in February against Cleveland International, a small Ohio record label that signed a contract in 1977 with Sony’s Epic Records division to manufacture and distribute “Bat Out of Hell.” Meat Loaf contends that Epic has sold more than 25-million copies of the album and owes him an estimated $20 million in unpaid royalties.