I’ll sit tight and wait until everything is right,” he had said in an interview, which explains why he waited for 10 years to release his debut album -Bat Out Of Hell – one of the best selling albums of all time. It was evident, early on, that Aday was destined for success. He released his first ever album in 1967, when he was only 20 with Popcorn Blizzard which sold only 5000 copies. But the band’s line up went through several line-up and subsequent name chanes including Floating Circus and Popcorn Blizzard. But he turned them all down, to form his first band, Meat Loaf Soul, as he he supported several rock acts, including Janis Joplin, the Who, the Fugs and the Stooges. He tasted success in during his early years, thanks to his distinctive voice, which ranged over three octaves and he received several contract offers. One of rock music’s all-time great characters whose seminal iconic album Bat Out Of Hell is one of the biggest-selling records in history.Ī wondrously talented, flamboyant, funny, outrageous and rebellious chameleon. “And these guys would come up to me and say, ‘How does a fat motherf****r like you get all these women?’ And you know what I’d tell them? I’d say, ‘Because I understand.’ And they’d just look at me. I weighed almost 300 pounds,” Meat Loaf told Houston Press in 2014. “I always dated the best-looking girls in school, the gorgeous ones, the prom queens, and I was huge. I’m sure you’re singing concerts in the great beyond. Rest In PeaceĪ gentle hearted powerhouse rockstar forever and ever. He was, as you might imagine, a larger than life character with a voice & stage presence to match & is one of those rare people who truly was a one off talent and personality. I am shocked & saddened by the sudden death of Meat Loaf. He got his nickname Meat loaf, because his father said he looked as “red as meat” at birth, and a high school football coach added the "loaf".
Am I imagining It, or Are Amazing Ppl In The Arts Dying every other Day⁉️īorn as Marvin Lee Aday, in Dallas in 1947, his mother was a school teacher and gospel singer and his father a former police officer who developed alcoholism after being medically discharged from the US army during the second world war. Am Very Sorry For His Family,Friends,& Fans. Had So Much Fun With Meatloaf When We Did “Dead Ringer”. Meat Loaf, one of the biggest icons of Rock’n’Roll music, who has sold over 100 million albums worldwide and also appeared in more than 50 films and TV shows, died at age 74, according to a statement on his verified Facebook page.įollowing the news, tributes poured in for the American rockstar, whose ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ album is one of the best-selling of all time. I have no problem with that: Marvin Lee Aday aKa Meat Loaf Rock’n’roll was never meant to answer the questions of the universe.
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