> They performed Paradise if I'm not mistaken.
Correct. You can see most of the performance on youtube, and it's also on a BBC DVD.
As you said, they did show BooH previously but not a studio performance. More info on this website.
The album proved the classic 'sleeper' Six months after its release, the Old Grey Whistle Test took the ambitious step of airing a film clip of the live band performing the nine-minute title track. Response was so overwhelming, they screened it again the following week. As a result, in the UK "Bat..." became and unfashionable, uncool, non-radio record that became a 'must-have' for everyone who heard it, whether they 'got' Steinman's unique perspective or not.
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