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  • Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, and by his own account he was bright red for days afterward. His father took one look at the baby and said he resembled "nine pounds of ground chuck." The father then talked hospital staff into writing the name "Meat" on the crib. That joke of a name followed the boy into a career built on a huge voice and theatrical live shows. Across three albums titled Bat Out of Hell, released in 1977-1993 and 2006, he sold more than 100 million records worldwide. How did a stage actor from Texas turn a handful of operatic rock songs into one of the best-selling catalogs in music? Why did Europe sometimes welcome him more warmly than his own country? And what did all of it cost him along the way?

  • In Dallas, Wilma Artie Aday taught school and sang in a gospel quartet called the Vo-di-o-do Girls. Her husband, Orvis Wesley Aday, was a former police officer who sold a homemade cough remedy with his wife and a friend under the name Griffin Grocery Company. Orvis had been medically discharged from the U.S. Army in World War II after mortar fragments wounded him. He then fell into a habit of drinking for days at a time. The boy often rode with his mother to the bars of Dallas to look for his father, and he spent stretches with his grandmother. Every Sunday he went to church and Bible study.

    By the seventh grade, classmates had settled on "Meat Loaf," a nod to a boy who stood 5 ft 2 in and weighed 240 lb. Before that, friends called him "M.L." for his initials. He later offered a second origin for the name. He said a football coach once stepped back after the boy trod on his foot and yelled, "Get off my foot, you hunk of meatloaf!"

    On the 22nd of November 1963, he was 16 years old. That morning he saw President Kennedy arrive at Dallas Love Field. After news of the assassination spread, he and a friend drove to Parkland Hospital. There he watched Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, covered in her husband's blood, step out of the car that had carried her to the emergency entrance.

    In 1965, he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. He had acted in school productions of Where's Charley? and The Music Man, and he played defensive tackle on the football team. He studied at Lubbock Christian College and then moved to North Texas State University, now the University of North Texas.

    In 1967, when he was 19, his mother died of cancer. Soon afterward his father lunged at him with a knife, falsely accusing him of having girls in his bedroom. He used the money his mother left him to rent an apartment in Dallas. He stayed shut inside for three and a half months, until a friend found him. He also gained 60 pounds, or 27 kg, hoping to fail the physical for the Vietnam War draft. The plan did not stop the notice from arriving, and he chose to ignore it. Not long after, he went to the airport and boarded the next flight to Los Angeles.

  • In 1968, in Huntington Beach, California, Meat Loaf played the first gig of his first band, Meat Loaf Soul, at a club called the Cave. They opened for Van Morrison's band Them and for Question Mark and the Mysterians. He later said the music industry treated him like a "circus clown" in those days. The band changed lead guitarists and renamed itself each time, using names such as Popcorn Blizzard and Floating Circus. As Floating Circus, it opened for the Who, the Fugs, the Stooges, MC5, the Grateful Dead and the Grease Band. The group released a single, "Once Upon a Time," backed with "Hello." Meat Loaf then joined the Los Angeles production of the musical Hair.

    Publicity from Hair brought an invitation from Motown in Detroit. At Detroit's Vest Pocket Theatre he played "Mother" and "Ulysses S. Grant." With fellow Hair performer Shaun "Stoney" Murphy, he recorded Stoney & Meatloaf, an album of songs chosen and written by the Motown production team. It came out in September 1971. Its single "What You See Is What You Get" reached number 36 on the Best Selling Soul Singles chart and number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100. He left Motown after the label replaced the vocals on "Who Is the Leader of the People?" with a new take by Edwin Starr. It was the one song on the record he liked. He then moved to Freeland, Michigan, for a year and opened at the Grande Ballroom 80 times.

    In December 1972, he appeared in the original off-Broadway production of Rainbow at New York's Orpheum Theatre. Afterward he rejoined Hair, this time on Broadway. Once he hired an agent, he auditioned for the Public Theater's More Than You Deserve and met Jim Steinman. He sang "(I'd Love to Be) As Heavy as Jesus" and won the part of Rabbit, a maniac who blows up fellow soldiers so they can "go home." Ron Silver and Fred Gwynne were in the cast. Between the April 1973 workshop and the full run from November 1973 to January 1974, he joined Raul Julia and Mary Beth Hurt in a Shakespeare in the Park staging of As You Like It.

    In late 1973, he joined the original Roxy cast of The Rocky Horror Show in Los Angeles, playing both Eddie and Dr. Scott. When the film The Rocky Horror Picture Show was made, Jonathan Adams took the Dr. Scott part. Meat Loaf kept only Eddie, and he said the split made the movie not as good as the stage show. In 1976, he sang lead on five of the nine tracks on Ted Nugent's album Free-for-All, while Nugent's regular singer Derek St. Holmes had temporarily quit. That same year he appeared in Gower Champion's rock musical Rockabye Hamlet. It closed two weeks into its run and was his last theatrical show in New York City.

  • In 1972, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman began work on the songs that became Bat Out of Hell, but they did not get serious until the end of 1974. Meat Loaf then decided to leave theater and focus on music alone. He took a job as understudy to John Belushi in The National Lampoon Show. There he met co-star Ellen Foley, who later sang "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Bat Out of Hell" with him on the record.

    Every record company the pair approached turned them down, because the songs fit no recognized style. Todd Rundgren agreed to produce the album and play lead guitar, assuming a deal already existed. Members of his band Utopia and drummer Max Weinberg joined in. The tapes still found no takers until Steve Popovich's Cleveland International Records took the risk. The album came out in October 1977.

    Meat Loaf pushed Epic Records to film music videos for four songs: "Bat Out of Hell," "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad." He also persuaded Lou Adler, the producer of Rocky Horror, to run the "Paradise" video as a trailer before that film. While recording the Rocky Horror soundtrack, he cut two more songs, a cover of Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" and "Clap Your Hands." Both stayed unreleased until 1984, when they appeared as B-sides to the single "Nowhere Fast."

    To tour the album, Meat Loaf and Steinman formed the Neverland Express. Its first show was in Chicago, opening for Cheap Trick. On the 25th of March 1978, Meat Loaf appeared as musical guest on Saturday Night Live, introduced by host Christopher Lee with a groan-worthy joke. Later in 1978, he jumped off a stage in Ottawa, Ontario, and broke his leg. He finished the tour in a wheelchair.

    Bat Out of Hell has sold an estimated 43 million copies worldwide, including 15 million in the United States. In the United Kingdom, 2.1 million sales put it in 38th place. It peaked at number 9 there and spent only two weeks in the top ten in 1981. Even so, by May 2015 it had logged 485 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, trailing only Rumours by Fleetwood Mac at 487. In Australia, it knocked the Bee Gees from number one and became the biggest-selling album ever in that country. By December 2020, its total in the UK Top 200 had reached 522 weeks.

  • In 1979, Steinman began Bad for Good, planned as the follow-up to Bat Out of Hell. Touring, drugs and exhaustion had left Meat Loaf unable to sing. With the record company pressing and no singer available, Steinman decided to sing the album himself. Meat Loaf took the part of Travis Redfish in the movie Roadie while he waited for his voice to return.

    In September 1981, Steinman delivered a new album for him, Dead Ringer. It held five new Steinman songs, plus "More Than You Deserve," which Meat Loaf had sung in the stage musical of that name, and a reworked monologue. Meat Loaf and Stephan Galfas produced it, with backing tracks produced by Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Iovine and Steinman. The title song, "Dead Ringer for Love," featured Cher on lead female vocals. It failed to chart in the United States but reached number 5 in the United Kingdom, where it stayed 19 weeks on the singles chart. On the 5th of December 1981, Meat Loaf and former Rocky Horror co-star Tim Curry performed a skit on Saturday Night Live set in a One-Stop Rocky Horror Shop.

    A dispute with Steinman left Meat Loaf contractually bound to deliver another album, and Midnight at the Lost and Found appeared in May 1983. Meat Loaf said Steinman had given him "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" for it. His label refused to let him sing Steinman's songs, saying nobody wanted to hear them. That same year, Bonnie Tyler's version of the first and Air Supply's version of the second held numbers 1 and 2 on the charts together.

    In 1983, poor money management and 45 lawsuits totaling US$80 million, some from Steinman, drove Meat Loaf into personal bankruptcy. He lost the rights to his songs, though he received royalties from Bat Out of Hell in 1997.

    In 1984, he went to England, where he felt increasingly at home, and recorded Bad Attitude. It included Steinman's "Nowhere Fast" and "Surf's Up," and Roger Daltrey of the Who sang on the title track. The most successful single was "Modern Girl." RCA released a slightly different version in the United States in April 1985. That year Meat Loaf also took part in comedy sketches in the UK with Hugh Laurie and tried stand-up in Connecticut. In 1986 came Blind Before I Stop, made with songwriter John Parr and producer Frank Farian for Arista Records. He also recorded "Thrashin" for the skateboarding film Thrashin', directed by David Winters and starring Josh Brolin.

  • In December 1990, Meat Loaf and Steinman started work on Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, released in September 1993. The album sold over 15 million copies. Its single "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" reached number one in 28 countries and held the top spot in the UK for seven consecutive weeks. In March 1994, at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, it earned Meat Loaf the award for best solo rock vocal performance. He also took the 1994 Brit Award for best-selling album and single.

    The single credited its female singer only as "Mrs. Loud." She was later identified as Lorraine Crosby, a performer from England. To promote the song, Meat Loaf instead toured with American singer Patti Russo, who sang the lead female parts on stage. In 1994, he sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and his single "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" reached number 13 in the United States.

    In 1995, his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood, went platinum in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Three singles reached the top 40. "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)," a duet with Russo, hit number 13 in the United States and number 2 in the UK. "Not a Dry Eye in the House" reached number 7 in the UK. Diane Warren wrote both. In 1998, The Very Best of Meat Loaf added three new songs co-written by Steinman, two with Andrew Lloyd Webber and one with Don Black, "Is Nothing Sacred." The single was a duet with Russo, while the album version was a solo.

    In 2003, Couldn't Have Said It Better became only the third album of his career with no new Steinman songs. Meat Loaf called it the most perfect album he had made since Bat Out of Hell. It sold less well, though it reached number 4 on the UK Albums Chart and led to a sellout world tour, including a set at the 2003 NRL Grand Final in Sydney. In February 2004, during an Australian tour, he performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The Australian Boys' Choir sang backup on "Testify," and the shows were recorded for a live album.

    When Meat Loaf and Steinman began the third Bat album, Steinman suffered a heart attack. Meat Loaf said Steinman was too ill for such demanding work, while Steinman's manager said health was no issue. Steinman had registered the phrase "Bat Out of Hell" as a trademark in 1995. In May 2006, Meat Loaf sued Steinman and his manager in Los Angeles federal court, seeking $50 million and an injunction. The two sides reached an agreement in July 2006. Speaking to Dan Rather, Meat Loaf insisted he and Steinman never stopped talking, and that the suits were between lawyers and managers.

    Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose came out on the 31st of October 2006, produced by Desmond Child. Its first single, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now," with Marion Raven, entered the UK chart at number 6, his highest position there in nearly 11 years. The album debuted at number 8 on the Billboard 200 with 81,000 copies in its first week, then sold more slowly in the United States and was certified gold. It featured duets with Russo and Jennifer Hudson. Also in October 2006, his private jet made an emergency landing at London Stansted Airport after its front landing gear failed.

  • Meat Loaf appeared in more than 50 films and television shows, starting with Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975. In 1992, he was a main character in Leap of Faith, playing a band director who also drove the bus and played piano. That year he also took a small part as a bouncer in Wayne's World. In 1997, he played the bus driver for the Spice Girls in Spice World. In 1998, he played Red in the thriller Black Dog, alongside Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis.

    In David Fincher's 1999 film Fight Club, Meat Loaf played Robert Paulsen, a man who joins a men's self-help group. He reportedly also helped Fincher with the editing of the film.

    In 2000, he played a character in the sixth-season Outer Limits episode "Gettysburg." In the 2006 film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, he appeared uncredited as Jack Black's father and sang on the opening song, "Kickapoo." In 2009, he guest-starred on House in the episode "Simple Explanation," as Eddie, a husband determined to die so that his liver could go to his wife. He also appeared on Don't Forget the Lyrics! and won $500,000 for The Painted Turtle.

    On the 26th of October 2010, credited as Meat Loaf Aday, he appeared on Glee in "The Rocky Horror Glee Show," the series' tribute to the film that had made him famous as Eddie. In 2011, he competed in season 11 of Celebrity Apprentice and was eliminated after the twelfth task. A televised showdown with fellow contestant Gary Busey became one of the season's notable moments. From 2017 to 2018 he was part of the main cast of Ghost Wars, playing Doug Rennie.

  • On the 17th of November 2003, Meat Loaf collapsed during a show at London's Wembley Arena. Doctors diagnosed Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, in which an extra electrical pathway in the heart can cause a racing pulse. He had a corrective procedure the next week. Afterward, his insurer would not let him perform for longer than one hour and 45 minutes.

    On the 31st of October 2007, at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne, he walked off stage early in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and said it was his last performance. His promoter, Andrew Miller, blamed "exhaustion and stress." The next two dates were canceled for "acute laryngitis," and a cyst on his vocal cords led him to cancel his entire 2007 European tour. He returned on the 27th of June 2008, opening The Casa de Carne Tour in Plymouth, England, with Patti Russo.

    At the 2011 AFL Grand Final, Meat Loaf performed a 12-minute medley that football fans and Australian commentators panned as the worst pre-match show in the event's 34-year history. He answered by calling online critics "butt-smellers" and the AFL "jerks." In July 2011, he fainted on stage in Pittsburgh during an asthma attack.

    On the 16th of June 2016, he collapsed on stage in Edmonton, Canada, from severe dehydration, after already canceling two shows because of illness. His pre-recorded vocal track kept playing while he lay unconscious, which sparked a lip-syncing controversy. He denied it, saying his microphone was live. Emergency back surgery with a spinal fusion followed in November 2016. By 2019 he used a cane and a wheelchair. That year, at Texas Frightmare Weekend, he fell off an interview stage and broke his collarbone.

    Off stage, he described a life that was mostly solitary. He said he had social anxiety and no idea what to do in social situations. Of his childhood, he said, "Being too fat to play with the other children, I had to spend a lot of time alone." In 1984, he legally changed his first name from Marvin to Michael, because he was "haunted" by a Levi Strauss & Co. commercial with the line "Poor fat Marvin can't wear Levi's." From 1981 to 1992 he was a vegetarian, and he joked that some vegetarians would not speak to him because of his name. A devoted New York Yankees fan, he got Phil Rizzuto to recite the play-by-play of a young man racing around the bases in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light."

    Jim Steinman died of kidney failure on the 19th of April 2021. In November 2021, Meat Loaf said he and his band would go back into the studio in January 2022 to record seven new songs. He died on the 20th of January 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, aged 74, before recording began. No official cause of death was released, though he had reportedly been ill with COVID-19 earlier that month. His two daughters rushed to the hospital, and his wife was beside him. Tributes came from Bonnie Tyler, Cher, Brian May, Boy George and Travis Tritt, among others. The Queen's Guard played a rendition of "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)."

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Who was Meat Loaf?

Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, on the 27th of September 1947, was an American singer and actor known for a powerful voice and theatrical live shows. He died on the 20th of January 2022 at age 74.

How did Meat Loaf get his name?

Meat Loaf's father said the newborn looked like "nine pounds of ground chuck" and had the name "Meat" put on his crib. Seventh-grade classmates later called him "Meat Loaf" because of his size, and he also cited a football coach who shouted "Get off my foot, you hunk of meatloaf!"

How many records did Meat Loaf sell with the Bat Out of Hell albums?

The three Bat Out of Hell albums, released in 1977-1993 and 2006, have sold more than 100 million records worldwide. The first album alone has sold an estimated 43 million copies globally, including 15 million in the United States.

Who wrote the songs on Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell?

Jim Steinman wrote the songs, and he and Meat Loaf began work on the album in 1972. Todd Rundgren produced it, and Cleveland International Records released it in October 1977.

Did Meat Loaf win a Grammy Award?

Yes. In March 1994, at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, Meat Loaf won the Grammy for best solo rock vocal performance for "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)."

What movies was Meat Loaf in?

Meat Loaf played Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1975, a bus driver in Spice World in 1997, and Robert Paulsen in Fight Club in 1999. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows.

When and where did Meat Loaf die?

Meat Loaf died on the evening of the 20th of January 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 74. No official cause of death was released, though he had reportedly been ill with COVID-19 earlier that month.

Why did Meat Loaf go bankrupt in 1983?

Poor money management and 45 lawsuits totaling US$80 million, including some from Jim Steinman, led Meat Loaf to file for personal bankruptcy in 1983. He lost the rights to his songs, though he received royalties from Bat Out of Hell in 1997.

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  28. 28NewsHow Meat Loaf Made a Cult Favorite: 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light'Jeremy Gordon — January 22, 2022
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  34. 34MagazineTodd Rundgren Talks Spoofing Bruce Springsteen and Seeing Meat Loaf Propose With a Salmon While Producing 'Bat Out of Hell'Bonnie Stiernberg — October 20, 2017
  35. 35NewsWho wrote Bat Out of Hell and when was it released? The story behind Meat Loaf's career-defining hitJanuary 21, 2022
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  41. 41NewsWhen Meat Loaf Finally Released a Follow-Up to 'Bat Out of Hell'Jeff Giles — September 4, 2016
  42. 42Dead Ringer For Love
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  44. 44Rocky Horror Turns 40: Time Warp to 40 Facts About the Cult ClassicMike McPadden — August 15, 2015
  45. 45NewsTim Curry/Meat Loaf & The Neverland Express Saturday Night Live: Season 7: Episode 7December 5, 1981
  46. 46VideoRocky Horror Shop
  47. 47NewsMeat Loaf: An Artist With an Abundant Slice of LifeDominic Green — January 21, 2022
  48. 48News'Total Eclipse of the Heart' Was Almost a Meat Loaf SongNATALIE ZARRELLI — August 16, 2017
  49. 49How Meat Loaf Crashed on 'Midnight at the Lost and Found'Jeff Giles — May 30, 2014
  50. 50NewsCompany Town : Meat Loaf's Beef Is Lack of RoyaltiesFebruary 9, 1996
  51. 51NewsBat manLynn Barber — December 7, 2003
  52. 52Meat Loaf – Bad AttitudeDiscogs — December 20, 1984
  53. 53NewsMeat Loaf: Bad Attitude & Blind Before I StopMark Beaumont — August 25, 2014
  54. 54NewsMeat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell singer dead at 74Laura Snapes — January 21, 2022
  55. 55Blind Before I Stop Review by William RuhlmannAllMusic
  56. 56NewsMeat Loaf's Life in PhotosKate Hogan — January 21, 2022
  57. 57News'Naughty' Meat Loaf recruited Mrs Loud for iconic song – but she didn't get paidCallum Crumlish — January 23, 2022
  58. 58VideoMeat Loaf: The US National Anthem (Star Spangled Banner)August 11, 2011
  59. 59Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through by Meat LoafSongfacts
  60. 60Meat Loaf albums ranked from worst to bestFuture plc — September 12, 2016
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  65. 65Meat Loaf – The Very Best Of Meat LoafDiscogs — November 24, 1998
  66. 66NewsFairytale of the year: Panthers pluck RoostersAlex Brown et al. — October 6, 2003
  67. 67NewsMeat Loaf recalls stage collapseNovember 28, 2003
  68. 68News'What else am I going to do? Run a hotdog stand?'Patrick Barkham — June 25, 2008
  69. 69NewsMeat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (E)February 19, 2007
  70. 70MagazineFlashback: Meat Loaf Tackles 'It's All Coming Back to Me Now' on 'Bat Out of Hell III'ANDY GREENE — April 27, 2021
  71. 71MagazineMeat Loaf Sues Over 'Bat Out Of Hell'June 5, 2006
  72. 72NewsMeat Loaf Battles For Bat Out Of Hell TrademarkJune 6, 2006
  73. 73NewsMeat Loaf resolves 'Bat out of Hell' suitJuly 31, 2006
  74. 74Video"The Big Interview" with Dan RatherSeptember 20, 2016
  75. 75Official Singles Chart Top 100August 31, 2017
  76. 76MagazineTop 200 AlbumsApril 7, 2016
  77. 77News"Montana" soundtrack, Manilow lead U.S. chartsNovember 8, 2006
  78. 78Gold & Platinum
  79. 79NewsAnother helping of Meat LoafSHANNON GAWEL — November 8, 2006
  80. 80NewsMeat Loaf's many brushes with death – car crashes, hit by shot put and scary collapseVerity Sulway — January 21, 2022
  81. 81News'I am not dying' Meat Loaf's furious response to health claims: 'Sick of talking about it'JOEL DAY — January 21, 2022
  82. 82NewsMeat Loaf has found the way to 'Paradise'Doug Miller — April 8, 2008
  83. 83NewsThat Dashboard Light Now Casts Its Glow on NostalgiaMatt Zoller Seitz — March 12, 2008
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  87. 87NewsIll Meat Loaf scraps Europe tourNovember 6, 2007
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  89. 89NewsLast Night: Meat Loaf at Pompano Beach AmphitheatreJose D. Duran — October 19, 2008
  90. 90NewsMeat Loaf Starts Over With 'Hang Cool Teddy Bear'May 7, 2010
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  93. 93NewsAlbum: Meat Loaf, Hang Cool Teddy Bear (Mercury)Andy Gill — April 16, 2010
  94. 94NewsGig review: Meatloaf at Wembley ArenaLisa Clark — December 12, 2010
  95. 95Meat Loaf: New AlbumJanuary 17, 2012
  96. 96NewsMeat Loaf Announces 'Hell in a Handbasket' Tracklist, Art and Release DateJessica Sager — January 17, 2012
  97. 97NewsMeat Loaf announces U.S. release of Hell in a HandbasketBryant Kitching — January 19, 2012
  98. 98Final Round of Meat Loaf's Mad, Mad World North American Tour Always AcousticAlways Acoustic — 2012-10-09
  99. 99NewsMeat Loaf baked as AFL's worstCameron Adams — October 4, 2011
  100. 100NewsLooking just like Meat Loaf, only olderLeaping Larry — October 2, 2011
  101. 101NewsMeat Loaf blasts the AFL and 'butt smellers'Linda Parri — October 23, 2011
  102. 102NewsLoaf blasts the AFLLinda Parri — October 23, 2011
  103. 103No butts about it, Meat Loaf goes offLinda Parri — October 22, 2011
  104. 104NewsMeat Loaf Readies Three New Albums to Celebrate 40th AnniversaryAugust 9, 2011
  105. 105VideoGuilty Pleasure - Interview with Meat Loaf & Patti RussoTheHungryPony — 2012-10-02
  106. 106NewsMeat Loaf – reviewGraeme Virtue — 2013-04-08
  107. 107Meat Loaf: Last at Bat Tour, O2 Arena, London2013-04-11
  108. 108NewsMeat Loaf collapses onstage in EdmontonMack Lamoureux — June 16, 2016
  109. 109Press releaseMeat Loaf Readying The Release Of New Album "Braver Than We Are" In Collaboration With Jim Steinman Out September 16 On 429 RecordsPR Newswire — June 22, 2016
  110. 110The album is finished . It will be out Sept 9th Europe . Sept 16th North America. There will be in stores
  111. 111Meat Loaf went veggie for 11 years after he was served rabbit with its head onSiobhan McNally — January 1, 2020
  112. 112Sorry, I haven't been posting, there is a reason but I don't want to go into that subject right now. Now aMeat Loaf — February 29, 2020
  113. 113News'Bat Out of Hell' songwriter and producer Jim Steinman dies at 73Elise Brisco — April 20, 2021
  114. 114Recording.... Yes Yes Yes!!!!November 22, 2021
  115. 115NewsMeat Loaf Helped Edit 'Fight Club' With David Fincher: 'We'd Sit There and Watch 40 Takes'Zack Sharf — January 21, 2022
  116. 116Jack Black Pays Tribute to Meat LoafRuss Burlingame — January 25, 2022
  117. 117Meat Loaf's Epic Cameo In 'Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny' Is Still The Greatest Thing EverDylan Elijah — Society Of Rock — July 12, 2017
  118. 118NewsExclusive: Rocky Horror Original Castmembers to Appear in Glee Tribute EpisodeKristin Dos Santos — September 10, 2010
  119. 119NewsMeat Loaf once became a bat out of hell in viral 'Celebrity Apprentice' feud with Gary BuseyJanuary 21, 2022
  120. 120NewsAnthrax's Scott Ian Pays Tribute to His Father-in-Law Meat LoafPhillip Trapp — January 24, 2022
  121. 121NewsMeat Loaf: Not done yet and back in Connecticut for Mohegan Sun concertSean Spillane — July 6, 2010
  122. 122NewsRock icon Meat Loaf had deep Connecticut connectionsJim Shay — June 17, 2016
  123. 123NewsIconic rocker Meat Loaf had deep Connecticut tiesRob Polansky — January 21, 2022
  124. 124News$60,000/Mo. OK for 'Nutty Prof'Ruth Ryon — February 22, 1998
  125. 125NewsBanger and MashedFebruary 20, 2004
  126. 126NewsGreg Kinnear Lists Meat Loaf's Former Mandeville Canyon CribMark David — September 14, 2020
  127. 127NewsMeat Loaf heads for HartlepoolMay 25, 2003
  128. 128NewsAt Home with Meat LoafNancy Collins — April 1, 2008
  129. 129NewsDo Not Bring Meatloaf to Meat Loaf's Housewarming PartyNick Leighton — May 30, 2012
  130. 130NewsMeat Loaf Moves to TexasMark David — May 29, 2012
  131. 131NewsMeat Loaf's death has been used as 'political tool' in COVID culture war, friend claimsMarjorie Hernandez et al. — January 22, 2022
  132. 132NewsPhil and Meat Loaf will always have "Paradise"Jeff Pearlman — August 29, 2007
  133. 133NewsRizzuto struck platinum on Meat Loaf's '78 hitBryan Hoch — January 21, 2022
  134. 134NewsFantasy Baseball's Toughest TournamentNando Difino — April 2, 2010
  135. 135NewsMeat Loaf to match charity penalty shoot-out totalGordon Barr — June 26, 2008
  136. 136Press releaseFrankie Muniz First Among Celebrities in the 2005 Toyota Pro/Celebrity RaceGlobeNewswire — April 9, 2005
  137. 137NewsFor Crying Out Loud: Sault Star's 2010 interview with Meat LoafJeffrey Ougler — January 21, 2022
  138. 138MagazineWhy Meat Loaf borrowed money from Scary SpiceRob Brunner — September 26, 2003
  139. 139NewsMeat Loaf goes vegan for Veganuary... but he won't rebrandHarriet Brewis — January 2, 2020
  140. 140NewsBAT OUT OF HELL, HELL IN A HANDBASKET: AN INTERVIEW WITH MEAT LOAFBetsy Kim — May 24, 2012
  141. 141NewsAll Across City, Celebration at BallsJanuary 21, 1997
  142. 142NewsA Whirlwind Tour of Inauguration DayJanuary 21, 2001
  143. 143NewsMeat Loaf endorses Mitt RomneyCAITLIN MCDEVITT — October 26, 2012
  144. 144NewsMeat Loaf and MittJames Hohmann — October 25, 2012
  145. 145NewsMeat Loaf endorses Romney in OhioPhilip Rucker — October 25, 2012
  146. 146MagazineMeat Loaf Talks 'Bat Out of Hell' Musical & Why President Trump Is 'Intelligent'
  147. 147MagazineMeat Loaf: 'I'm not afraid of him' music icon on furious row with Donald Trump
  148. 148NewsMeat Loaf: Here Are His Claims About Greta Thunberg And Climate ChangeBruce Y. Lee — January 4, 2020
  149. 149MagazineMeat Loaf Claims Greta Thunberg Has Been 'Brainwashed'
  150. 150NewsQ&A with Meat Loaf: Unable to perform, the rocker pays a visit to Steel City ConScott Mervis — August 9, 2021
  151. 151NewsMeat Loaf, the Dallas-born 'Bat Out of Hell' rocker, dies at 74Tommy Cummings — January 21, 2022
  152. 152MagazineMeat Loaf Has Heart SurgeryAndrew Dansby — December 25, 2003
  153. 153NewsMeat Loaf 'collapses on stage in Pittsburgh then finishes concert'July 30, 2011
  154. 154NewsMeat Loaf blamed China for COVID, revealed he couldn't sing months before deathNatalie O'Neill — January 21, 2022
  155. 155NewsMeat Loaf collapses onstage after suffering 'asthma attack' – videoJuly 31, 2011
  156. 156NewsMeat Loaf tells Rolling Stone about stage collapse in EdmontonJuly 26, 2016
  157. 157NewsMeat Loaf's strict health regime after collapsing on stageStef Lach — July 11, 2016
  158. 158NewsMeat Loaf dead: Inside 'Bat Out of Hell' singer's emergency back surgeryMIRANDA SLADE — January 21, 2022
  159. 159NewsMeat Loaf reportedly breaks collarbone after falling off stageSam Moore — May 7, 2019
  160. 160Michael Lee Aday and Deborah Lee Gillespie Aday, Plaintiffs, vs. Hyatt Corporation d/b/a Hyatt Regency DFW; and Texas Frightmare Weekend, LLC, DefendantsJanuary 13, 2020
  161. 161NewsMeat Loaf sues hotel, blaming negligence for disabling fallJanuary 14, 2020
  162. 162NewsHoward Stern wants Meat Loaf's survivors to advocate for COVID-19 vaccinesKatherine Rodriguez — January 27, 2022
  163. 163NewsMusic City remembers music legend Meat LoafAlexandra Koehn — January 21, 2022
  164. 164NewsMeat Loaf's Wife Deborah Aday Recalls Love Story with Late Husband: 'He Was My World'Jeff Nelson et al. — January 24, 2022
  165. 165NewsMeat Loaf tributes pour in as fans remember 'rare and rather wonderful' showman, 'rebellious chameleon'Adela Suliman et al. — January 21, 2022
  166. 166NewsMeat Loaf dies: Bonnie Tyler, Cher and Brian May lead tributes to singer and actor after death aged 74
  167. 167NewsTrump calls Meat Loaf a 'great guy' despite rift over run for presidentDave Goldiner — January 21, 2022
  168. 168NewsThe Queen's Guard make fans emotional with touching tribute to Meat LoafAINHOA BARCELONA — January 24, 2022
  169. 169NewsFinal UK tour as Meat Loaf serves up his tasty rockSarah Walters — March 23, 2013
  170. 170Concert schedule includes a serving of Meat LoafJeff Bahr — The Grand Island Independent — 27 February 2016
  171. 171VideoMeatloaf Scavenger Hunt (1979) Meat Loaf
  172. 172NewsMEAT LOAF, 1980January 21, 2022
  173. 173MEAT LOAFMetacritic — November 16, 2004
  174. 174Meat LoafRotten Tomatoes
  175. 175NewsMeat Loaf, rocker and 'Bat Out of Hell' singer, dies at 74January 21, 2022
  176. 176NewsBladerunner, Spice World and five amazing alternative films to see near you this weekGraham Young — April 2, 2015
  177. 177NewsMeat Loaf Fans Honor Actor in Classic 'Fight Club' FashionRyan Parker — January 21, 2022
  178. 178Polish SpaghettiRadio Times
  179. 179NewsThe 9 Christmas movie hidden gems you need to watch on NetflixIlana Kaplan — December 13, 2017
  180. 180MagazineCable Review: A 'Rebellious' DisasterJim Bessman — Nielsen Business Media, Inc. — 27 Apr 1985
  181. 181BookVH1 Rock Stars EncyclopediaDafydd Rees et al. — DK Pub. — 1999
  182. 182Bump and RunNovember 20, 1985
  183. 183Psyched for Snuppa (1992)
  184. 184NewsGhost Hunters heats up with Meat Loaf and Sloss FurnacesLaura Merwin — November 18, 2010
  185. 185NewsExclusive: USA's Fairly Legal Serves Up a Savory Helping of Meat LoafMatt Webb Mitovich — February 22, 2012
  186. 187BookLike A Bat Out Of Hell: The larger than life story of Meat LoafMick Wall — Trapeze — 2017

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