Personnel includes: Meat Loaf; Jim Steinman (spoken vocals, piano); Kasim Sulton (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Pat Thrall (guitar, background vocals); Steve Lukather (guitar); Mark Alexander (piano, keyboards, background vocals); Jeff Bova (organ); Paul Mirkovich (keyboards); Steve Buslowe (bass, background vocals); John Miceli (drums, percussion); Patti Russo, Pearl Aday (background vocals).

Engineers include: Dave Thoener, Larry Alexander, Ben Fowler.

Recorded live between 1977 and 1996.

Even when Meat Loaf hit a few stumbling blocks with his career in the '80s, he always remained one of rock's top concert draws, still able to pull off stirring and emotionally charged shows around the globe. And while a few Meat Loaf live albums came and went throughout his career (such releases as LIVE AT WEMBLEY and LIVE falling out of print), it wasn't until 1996's LIVE AROUND THE WORLD that the excitement of a full Meat Loaf concert was successfully captured on disc. A double-disc set, LIVE AROUND THE WORLD wisely focuses mostly on Jim Steinman compositions (overlooking most of Meat Loaf's oft-forgotten '80s work), particularly readings of tracks from BAT OUT OF HELL and BAT OUT OF HELL II.