“I’ll sit tight and wait until everything is right.”
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Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday, known professionally as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was known for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell album trilogy—Bat Out of Hell (1977), Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993), and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006)—has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selli…
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entertainment · American singer and actor (1947–2022) · actor · singer-songwriter · record producer · guitarist · singer · rock singer · musician · also Meat Loaf, Loaf
Born 27 September 1947 · Died 20 January 2022 · Q152929
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2026· 12 entries
“But the real thing is about managers. So, really, I didn”
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“He sleeps in the daytime, I sleep at night. He lives in a hotel in New York, and when I go to New York I stay in that hotel. And the other day we were two doors apart. But he was sound asleep, and he had Do Not Disturb signs on his door and all the New York newspapers and the English newspapers stacked up in front.”
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“absolutely my last world tour”
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“Every night I hear him. Every night I”
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“Phil was no dummy -- he knew exactly what was going on, and he told me such,”
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“He was just getting some heat from a priest and felt like he had to do something. I totally understood. But I believe Phil was proud of that song and his participation.”
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“Huge. You have a tempo change, then all of sudden there”
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“the most perfect album [he] did since Bat Out of Hell”
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The Guardian: A Close Shave/A Matter of Loaf and Death review – Wallace and Gromit knit together a cracking double bill
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Public attention spiked: 12,821 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 3,311, with 0 article edits.
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The Guardian: A lemony loaf, a stir-fry and a cheeseboard pickle: Ravinder Bhogal’s courgette recipes
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “What You See Is What You Get: The Motown Recordings”.
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The Guardian: Bat out of Hell: The Musical review – incoherent Meat Loaf extravaganza saved by spectacular music and confetti cannons
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2022· 17 entries
Released album “Bat On The Road 1977 (Live)”.
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People: Meat Loaf Makes One of His Final Appearances on Upcoming 'Ghost Hunters' Episode: 'We Were Blessed'
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Snopes rated the claim “Rock singer Meat Loaf attempted to push Prince Andrew into a moat.” Unproven.
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The Guardian: ‘His passing has left a huge hole in my life’: readers remember Meat Loaf
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The Guardian: ‘Warm, loving, generous – but he had demons’: inside the life of Meat Loaf
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People: Meat Loaf's Daughter Amanda Aday Remembers Late Performer: 'When We Were Home, He Was Just Dad'
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The Guardian: Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell singer dead at 74
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The Guardian: Bikes, fights and debauchery: Meat Loaf at the movies
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The Guardian: Meat Loaf obituary
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The Guardian: Meat Loaf was a spellbinding performer who fused sincerity with showmanship
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The Guardian: Meat Loaf – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Share your tributes and memories of Meat Loaf
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New York Post: Meat Loaf, rock legend and ‘Bat Out of Hell’ singer, dead at 74
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loudwire: Rockers React to the Death of ‘Bat Out of Hell’ Singer Meat Loaf
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TVLine: Meat Loaf, Grammy-Winning Singer And Rocky Horror Star, Dead At 74
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7NEWS Australia: Heartbreaking details emerge about sudden death of Meat Loaf
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Died 2022-01-20.
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: If Carrie Symonds wants to master the grand gesture, she should listen to Meat Loaf | Hadley Freeman
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The Guardian: Jim Steinman, hitmaker for Meat Loaf and Celine Dion, dies at 73
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2020· 1 entry
Called Greta Thunberg "brainwashed" due to her views on climate change, saying: "I feel for that Greta
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2019· 3 entries
Was using a cane and a wheelchair to get around
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At the 2019 Texas Frightmare Weekend at the Hyatt Regency DFW hotel, Meat Loaf fell off an interview stage and broke his clavicle.
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That he would try veganism for Veganuary in 2020 and would be partnering with UK restaurant chain Frankie & Benny's to promote its vegan options
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “Live at the Bottom Line 1985”.
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Released album “Braver Than We Are”.
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Meat Loaf had emergency back surgery in November 2016 including a spinal fusion due to a cyst that was pinching nerves, and in 2019, he was using a cane and a wheelchair to get around.
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Released album “Love and Death and an American Guitar”.
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2013· 1 entry
Released album “Milestones”.
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2012· 4 entries
Meat Loaf endorsed Mitt Romney for president, citing poor Russia–United States relations as a major reason he had been "arguing for Mitt Romney for a year
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Released album “Playlist: The Very Best of Meat Loaf”.
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Released album “Guilty Pleasure Tour: Live from Sydney, Australia”.
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This is the most important election in the history of the United States
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2011· 6 entries
Released album “Hell in a Handbasket”.
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Released album “The Essential Meat Loaf”.
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Meat Loaf had asthma and, in July 2011, he fainted on stage while performing in Pittsburgh due to an asthma attack.
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“I would vote for you. In fact, I”
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Was a contestant in season 11 of Celebrity Apprentice, during which he was eliminated after task number 12
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Meat Loaf planned to release a Christmas album called Hot Holidays featuring Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire, but the album was never released
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2010· 3 entries
Meat Loaf (credited as Meat Loaf Aday) appeared on the Fox television series Glee in "The Rocky Horror Glee Show", the series' tribute episode to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
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Released album “Hang Cool Teddy Bear”.
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Released album “Dead Ringer for Love / Bat Out of Hell”.
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2009· 3 entries
Released album “A Piece of the Action”.
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Meat Loaf acted in House S5 E20 "Simple Explanation", playing Eddie, a husband who is determined to die in order to donate his liver to his wife
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Released album “Collected Hits”.
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2008· 4 entries
Meat Loaf began The Casa de Carne Tour in Plymouth, England alongside his longtime duet partner Patti Russo, who debuted one of her own original songs during the show
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Released album “Dead Ringer for Love: The Meat Loaf Collection”.
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Released album “Collections”.
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Released album “Best of Meat Loaf”.
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2007· 5 entries
At the opening of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" Meat Loaf walked off the stage early in the song and said that it was his last performance
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Released album “Hit Collection”.
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Meat Loaf began The Seize the Night Tour, with Marion Raven, serving as a supporting act
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Released album “3 Bats Live”.
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Meat Loaf married Deborah Gillespie in 2007.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose”.
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Released album “Bat Out of Hell & Hits Out of Hell”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Bat Out of Hell Live”.
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Released album “3am Hits”.
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2003· 12 entries
During a performance at London's Wembley Arena, on his Couldn't Have Said It Better tour, he collapsed of what was later diagnosed as Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, a condition marked by an extra electrical pathway in t
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Released album “Rock ’n’ Roll Hero”.
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Released album “Fallen Angel”.
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Released album “Couldn’t Have Said It Better”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “The Best of Meat Loaf”.
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Meat Loaf released his album Couldn't Have Said It Better
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Released album “Side by Side”.
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The BBC said that he was seeking a residence in Hartlepool; Meat Loaf supported Hartlepool United F
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In 2003, the BBC said that he was seeking a residence in Hartlepool; Meat Loaf supported Hartlepool United F.C.
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In 2003, Meat Loaf was diagnosed with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, a condition marked by an extra electrical pathway in the heart that causes symptoms like a rapid heartbeat.
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Meat Loaf was diagnosed with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, a condition marked by an extra electrical pathway in the heart that causes symptoms like a rapid heartbeat
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2002· 4 entries
Released album “Heaven Can Wait: The Best Of”.
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Released album “Meat Loaf and Friends”.
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Released album “Bad Attitude”.
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Released album “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”.
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2001· 3 entries
Released album “You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth”.
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Released album “Greatest Music Gallery”.
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Sold his 5,083-square-foot house in Mandeville Canyon near Los Angeles to Greg Kinnear for $3
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2000· 2 entries
Released album “Simply the Best”.
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Played a character in the sixth-season episode "Gettysburg" of The Outer Limits
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “VH1 Storytellers”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “The Very Best of Meat Loaf”.
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Meat Loaf released The Very Best of Meat Loaf
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1997· 2 entries
Performed at an inaugural ball during the second inauguration of Bill Clinton, and attended the first inauguration of George W
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Released album “The Masters”.
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1996· 3 entries
Released album “Live Around the World”.
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Released album “Heaven Can Wait: The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf, Volume 1”.
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Released album “Best Ballads”.
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1995· 6 entries
Released album “Welcome to the Neighbourhood”.
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Released album “Meat Loaf”.
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Meat Loaf released his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood
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Released album “Live & Alive”.
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Released ep “CD Sampler”.
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Released album “Definitive Collection”.
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1994· 9 entries
Awarded Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Male Artist (1994).
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Released album “Look Back Into Hell”.
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Released album “Live & More”.
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Released album “Alive in Hell”.
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Released album “I’d Do Anything for Love Tour 1993”.
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Released album “To Hell and Back”.
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Released album “Beauty of the Beast: The Very Best, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “Back From Hell Again! The Very Best of Meat Loaf, Vol. 2”.
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Released album “Live in Hell”.
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1993· 8 entries
Released album “Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf”.
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Released album “From Hell to Paradise (live in New York 1993)”.
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Released album “Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell…”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance (1993).
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Released album “Anything to Live”.
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Released album “Bat - Back to Hell Tour '93”.
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Released album “Live USA”.
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Released ep “Twelve Inch Mixes”.
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1992· 2 entries
Released album “For Crying Out Loud”.
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Released album “Live in Cleveland”.
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1991· 2 entries
Released album “Rock ’n Roll Dreams Too”.
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Released album “Paradise by the Dashboardlight: The Very Best of Meat Loaf”.
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1990· 1 entry
Released album “Rock ’n Roll Dreams”.
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Heaven & Hell”.
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Released album “Prime Cuts”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Anthology”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Live at Wembley”.
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1986· 3 entries
Released album “Blind Before I Stop”.
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Released ep “Total Eclipse of the Heart / Keep On Loving You”.
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Thirty Seven”.
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1985· 1 entry
Meat Loaf took part in some comedy sketches in the UK with Hugh Laurie
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1984· 3 entries
Meat Loaf went to England, where he felt increasingly at home, to record the album Bad Attitude; it was released that year
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Released album “Hits Out of Hell”.
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Meat Loaf legally changed his first name from Marvin to Michael because he was "haunted" by a Levi Strauss & Co
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Midnight at the Lost and Found”.
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1981· 4 entries
Meat Loaf and the Neverland Express were the musical guests for Saturday Night Live where he and former fellow Rocky Horror Picture Show actor Tim Curry performed a skit depicting a One-Stop Rocky Horror Shop
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Released album “Dead Ringer”.
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It has now spent 485 weeks on the UK Albums Chart (May 2015), a figure bettered only by Rumours by Fleetwood Mac with 487 weeks
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Leslie gave birth to Amanda Aday, who later became a television actress
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1979· 3 entries
And his family moved to a house on Eagle Drive in Stamford, Connecticut
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Steinman started to work on Bad for Good, the intended follow-up to 1977's Bat Out of Hell
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Meat Loaf adopted Pearl in 1979, and her last name was changed to Aday.
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1978· 3 entries
Released album “Live (My Father’s Place)”.
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In December 1978, Meat Loaf went to work with Steinman in Woodstock, New York, where his future wife, Leslie G.
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Meat Loaf jumped off a stage in Ottawa, Ontario, breaking his leg
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Bat Out of Hell”.
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1976· 2 entries
Meat Loaf recorded lead vocals for Ted Nugent's album Free-for-All when regular Nugent lead vocalist Derek St
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Meat Loaf appeared on the track "Keeper Keep Us", from the Intergalactic Touring Band's self-titled album, produced by Galfas
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1975· 1 entry
For Rocky Horror Picture Show, Meat Loaf also had a career as an actor in television and film
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1972· 1 entry
But did not get serious about it until the end of 1974
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1968· 1 entry
At the Cave, opening for Van Morrison's band Them and Question Mark and the Mysterians
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1967· 1 entry
When Meat Loaf was 19 years old, his mother died of cancer, and his father lunged at him with a knife after falsely accusing the teen of having girls in his bedroom
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1965· 1 entry
Meat Loaf graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having appeared in school stage productions such as Where's Charley
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1947· 2 entries
The son of Wilma Artie (née Hukel), a schoolteacher and member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel music quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a former police officer who went into business selling a homemade cough remedy with his
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Born 1947-09-27.
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