| Name | Meat Loaf |
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| Background | solo_singer |
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| Birth name | Marvin Lee Aday |
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| Alias | Meat Loaf |
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| Born | September 27, 1947
Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
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| Instrument | Vocals, guitar, keyboards, saxophone |
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| Genre | Rock, wagnerian rock, hard rock, rock and roll |
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| Occupation | Musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor |
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| Years active | 1967–present |
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| Label | Rare Earth, Cleveland International, Epic, RCA, Arista, MCA, Polydor, Sanctuary, Mercury, Virgin, Loud & Proud |
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| Associated acts | Jim Steinman, Bonnie Tyler, Patti Russo, Tenacious D, Jack Black, Ellen Foley, Marion Raven, Jennifer Hudson, Pearl Aday |
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| Url | Meatloaf.net |
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Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), better known by his stage name, Meat Loaf, is an American rock musician and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell album trilogy consisting of Bat Out of Hell, and . Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies. After more than 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time.
Although he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and earned a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for a track on the latter album, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native United States. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for number of weeks overall spent on the charts. He ranked 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock."
Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies or television shows sometimes as himself, or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable roles include Eddie in the American premiere of The Rocky Horror Show, Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Robert "Bob" Paulson in Fight Club, and Jack Black's father in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (a character who, ironically, hates rock music and believes it to be evil).
Early life
Meat Loaf was born as
Marvin Lee Aday in
Dallas,
Texas,
United States. He was the first child of Wilma Artie (née Hukel), a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. His father was an
alcoholic who would go on
drinking binges for days at a time. Marvin and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Marvin often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod. After attending college at
Lubbock Christian College, Marvin transferred to North Texas State University (now the
University of North Texas in Denton).
After Marvin got his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. Eventually a friend found him. Marvin bought a car with his inheritance and drove to California.
Music career
In Los Angeles, he formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul. During the recording of their first song, Meat Loaf hit a note so high that he managed to blow a fuse on the recording monitor; he was immediately offered three recording contracts, which he turned down.
Stoney & Meatloaf
With the publicity generated from
Hair, Meat Loaf was invited to record with
Motown. They suggested he do a duet with
Shaun "Stoney" Murphy, who had performed with him in
Hair, to which he agreed. The Motown production team in charge of the album wrote and selected the songs while Meat Loaf and Stoney came in only to lay down their vocals. The album, titled
Stoney & Meatloaf (Meatloaf being shown as one word), was completed in the summer of 1971 and released in September of that year. A single released in advance of the album,
What You See Is What You Get, reached number thirty six on the
R&B; charts and seventy-one on
Billboard Hot 100 chart. To support their album, Meat Loaf and Stoney toured with
Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers, opening up for
Richie Havens,
The Who,
The Stooges,
Bob Seger,
Alice Cooper and
Rare Earth. Meat Loaf left soon after Motown replaced his and Stoney's vocals from the one song he liked, "Who Is the Leader of the People?" with new vocals by
Edwin Starr. The album has been re-released after Meat Loaf's success, with Stoney's vocals removed. Meat Loaf's version of "Who Is the Leader of the People?" was released, but the album failed. Stoney, in Meat Loaf's absence, brought out a solo single which flopped and she quit Motown shortly after. Stoney went on to sing backing vocals for many acts, including Bob Seger and Eric Clapton, and became a full time member of
Little Feat in 1993. Murphy left Little Feat in February 2009, and is pursuing solo blues and soul projects with her new band,
The Shaun Murphy Band.
More Than You Deserve
After the tour, Meat Loaf rejoined the cast of
Hair, this time on
Broadway. After he hired an agent, he auditioned for the
Public Theater's production of
More Than You Deserve. It was during the audition that Meat Loaf first met his future collaborator
Jim Steinman. He sang a former Stoney and Meatloaf favorite of his, "(I'd Love to Be) As Heavy as Jesus" (On VH1 Storytellers, Meat Loaf shares his first introduction with Jim Steinman. Meat would revive Steinman's reaction to his intimate audience, "Well, I think you're heavy as two Jesuses to be a matter of fact!") , and with that, got the part of Rabbit, a maniac that blows up his fellow soldiers so they can "go home." Also in the show were
Ron Silver and
Fred Gwynne. After it closed he appeared in
"As You Like It" with
Raúl Juliá and
Mary Beth Hurt.
He recorded a single of More Than You Deserve and had a cover of In the Presence of the Lord as its b-side. He was only able to save three copies of it because the record company wouldn't allow its press release. With those three copies he released many rare CDs featuring the two songs, which can occasionally be spotted at CD outlets. He later recorded it again (1981) in a slightly rougher voice.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
During the winter of 1973, after returning from a short production of
Rainbow in New York in
Washington, D.C., Meat Loaf received a call asking him to be in
The Rocky Horror Show where he played the parts of Eddie and Dr. Everett Scott. The success of the play led to the filming of
The Rocky Horror Picture Show where Meat Loaf played only Eddie, a decision he has said he felt was "a huge mistake". About the same time, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman started work on
Bat out of Hell. Meat Loaf convinced
Epic Records to shoot
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 then convinced
Lou Adler, the producer of
Rocky Horror, to run the "Paradise" video as a trailer to the movie. Meat Loaf's final show in New York was
Gower Champion's
Rockabye Hamlet, a
Hamlet musical. It closed two weeks into its initial run. Meat would later return occasionally to perform
Hot Patootie for a special Rocky Horror reunion or convention, and rarely at his own live shows (one performance of which was released in the 1996
Live Around the World CD set).
During his recording of the soundtrack for Rocky Horror, Meat Loaf recorded two more songs: "Stand By Me" (a Ben E. King cover), and "Clap Your Hands." They remained unreleased until 1984, when they appeared as B-sides to the "Nowhere Fast" single.
In 1976, Meat Loaf recorded lead vocals for Ted Nugent's Free-for-All album when regular Nugent lead vocalist Derek St. Holmes quit the band. Meat Loaf sang lead on five of the album's nine tracks.
Major success
Bat Out of Hell
Meat Loaf and friend/songwriter
Jim Steinman started
Bat Out of Hell in 1972, but did not get serious about it until the end of 1974. The two-year gap in the production was due to controversy surrounding his son born in
Afton, Wyoming. Meat Loaf decided to leave
theatre, and concentrate exclusively on music. Then, the
National Lampoon Show opened on Broadway, and it needed an understudy for
John Belushi, a close friend of Meat Loaf since 1972. It was at the Lampoon Show that Meat Loaf met
Ellen Foley, the co-star who sang "
Paradise by the Dashboard Light" with him on the album
Bat Out of Hell.
After the Lampoon show ended, Meat Loaf and Steinman spent time seeking a record deal. Their approaches were rejected by each record company, because their songs did not fit any specific recognized music industry style. Finally, they performed the songs for Todd Rundgren, who decided to produce the album, as well as play lead guitar on it (other members of Todd's band Utopia also lent their musical talents). They then shopped the record around, but still had no takers until Cleveland International Records decided to take a chance. On October 21, 1977, Bat Out of Hell was released.
Meat Loaf and Steinman formed the band The Neverland Express to tour in support of Bat Out of Hell. Their first gig was opening for Cheap Trick in Chicago. He gained national exposure as musical guest on Saturday Night Live on March 25, 1978. Guest host Christopher Lee introduced him by saying, "And now ladies and gentlemen I would like you to meet Loaf. (pauses, looks dumbfounded) I beg your pardon, what? (he listens to the director's aside) Oh! Why...why I'm sorry, yes, of course...ah... Ladies and gentlemen, Meat Loaf!" The huge success of the album caused a rift to open up between Meat Loaf and Steinman: the group, named after Meat Loaf for ease of labeling, seemed to Steinman to sideline his work as creator, and Steinman started to resent the attention that his partner was getting.
During a show in Ottawa, Meat Loaf fell off the stage and broke his leg. He toured with the broken leg, performing from a wheel chair. During this time, Meat Loaf began heavy use of cocaine, had a nervous breakdown and threatened to commit suicide by jumping off the ledge of a building in New York. Then, in December 1978, he went to Woodstock to work with Steinman. It was at the Bearsville studio that Meat Loaf met his future wife, Leslie G. Edmonds; they were married within a month. Leslie had a daughter from a previous marriage, Pearl, who has since followed in her stepfather's footsteps to become a singer. In the middle of recording his second album, Bad for Good, Meat Loaf lost the ability to sing; it is unclear as to the exact cause - the tour was a punishing one, and the vocals are energy intense. However, his doctors said that physically he was fine and that his problem was psychological. Nevertheless, Steinman decided to keep recording Bad for Good without Meat Loaf.
Bat Out of Hell has sold over 43 million copies worldwide, That same year, Meat Loaf ended up declaring bankruptcy. For a brief time after Amanda's birth, they moved to nearby Westport. According to Meat Loaf, Pearl, then in the fifth grade, came home crying "because she had the wrong type of jeans and I said, 'That's it. We're gone.'" The family then moved to Redding, Connecticut, "which is much more of a blue-collar, working-class kind of town, and it really didn't make any difference what kind of jeans you were wearing. I really liked it there." Meat Loaf coached children's baseball or softball in each of the Connecticut towns he lived in. This was hard luck for Meat Loaf, as Bonnie Tyler's version of "Eclipse" and Air Supply's version of "Making Love" would top the charts together, holding #1 and #2 for a period during 1983.
Meat Loaf is credited with being involved in the writing of numerous tracks on the album, including the title track, "Midnight at the Lost and Found". However, when the album was released in 1983, it was regarded by many as being poor. Fans were disappointed to see that the iconic pictures on the covers of Bat out of Hell and Dead Ringer were replaced by a black-and-white photograph of Meat Loaf (on some later re-releases, a colour image of a screaming Meat Loaf was used as the cover image).
The title track still regularly forms part of Meat Loaf concerts, and was one of very few 1980s songs to feature on the 1998 hit album The Very Best of Meat Loaf. This was the last album that Meat Loaf did with the record label Epic until the 'best of' album.
Bad Attitude
Bad Attitude, released 1984, features two songs by Jim Steinman, both previously recorded, and was mainly an attempt to keep Meat Loaf from going bankrupt during this period of lawsuits. It concentrated more on the hard rock side of Meat Loaf, was a minor success around the globe and released a few hit singles, the most successful being "
Modern Girl". It also holds some of Meat Loaf's favorite songs that include "Jumpin' the Gun" and "Piece of the Action". It was recorded in
England. The US release on RCA Records was on April 1985 and features a slightly different track list, as well as alternate mixes for some songs.
"Modern Girl" was taken from this album and was the biggest hit. "Piece of the Action", "Sailor to a Siren" is the b side and "Nowhere Fast" were also released singles with extended mixes and exclusive songs: "Take a Number", "Stand by Me" (a Ben E. King cover) and "Clap Your Hands". The latter two songs were recorded during the sessions for the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack.
Blind Before I Stop
Blind Before I Stop was released in 1986. It features production, mixing, and general influence by
Frank Farian. Meat Loaf gave songwriting another shot with this album and wrote three of the songs on the album. However, the only song released as a single (in the UK) was "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries," which was a duet with rock singer
John Parr.
According to Meat Loaf's 1998 autobiography, the album sold poorly because of the production of the album. Meat Loaf would have preferred to cancel the project and wait to work with more Steinman material. The album, however, has gained a cult following over the years, citing the songs "Execution Day" and "Standing on the Outside" as standout tracks on the record. "Standing on the Outside" was also featured during the third season of the 1980s TV show Miami Vice; it was used several times during the episode titled "Forgive Us Our Debts" (first aired December 12, 1986).
The song "Masculine" was the only song off the record to be a Live Show mainstay from 1987 to 1992. This then was omitted in favor of "Life is a Lemon And I Want My Money Back" with the success of Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell.
Return to popularity
Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Because of the success of Meat Loaf's touring in the eighties, he and Steinman began work during the Christmas of 1990 on the sequel to
Bat out of Hell. After two years,
was finished and became a success. It sold over 15 million copies, and the single "
I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" reached number one in 28 countries. Meat Loaf won the
Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo in
1994 for "I'd Do Anything for Love." This song stayed at #1 in the UK charts for seven consecutive weeks. The single features a female vocalist who was credited only as "Mrs. Loud." Mrs. Loud was later identified as
Lorraine Crosby, a performer from
North East England. Meat Loaf promoted the song with American vocalist
Patti Russo who performed lead female vocals on tour with him. In
Germany, Meat Loaf became notably popular following the release of
Bat out of Hell II but has enjoyed most of his success among pop/rock fans.
Also in 1994, he was honored by singing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, something he says was one of the two biggest highlights of his career. Meat Loaf attempted to follow the success of "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" by releasing "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" as a follow-up; this song reached #13 in the US.
Welcome to the Neighborhood
In 1995, Meat Loaf released his seventh studio album,
Welcome to the Neighborhood. The album went platinum in the United States and the UK. It released three singles which all hit the top 40, including "
I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" (which reached #13 in the US and #2 in the UK charts) and "
Not a Dry Eye in the House" (which reached #7 in the UK charts). "I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)" was a duet with
Patti Russo (who had been touring with Meat Loaf and singing on his albums since 1993).
Of the twelve songs on the album, two are written by Jim Steinman. Both are covers, the "Original Sin" from Pandora's Box's Original Sin album (it was also heard in the movie The Shadow, where it was performed by Taylor Dayne) and "Left in the Dark" first appeared on Steinman's own Bad for Good. The video, which had a bigger budget than any of his previous videos, helped the single in its success. Other big hits, namely "I'd Lie for You" and "Not a Dry Eye in the House", were written by Diane Warren.
The Very Best of Meat Loaf
In 1998, Meat Loaf released
The Very Best of Meat Loaf. Although not reaching the top ten in the UK, it recently went platinum, and was already platinum around the rest of the world just after its release. The album featured all of Meat Loaf's best-known songs, a few from his less popular albums from the 1980s, and three new songs. The music on the two Steinman songs was written and composed by
Andrew Lloyd Webber. The single from the album was "
Is Nothing Sacred", written by
Jim Steinman with lyrics by
Don Black. The single version of this song is a duet with
Patti Russo, whereas the album version is a solo song by Meat Loaf. The album did not feature any songs from his 1986 album Blind Before I Stop.
Couldn't Have Said It Better
In 2003, Meat Loaf released his album
Couldn't Have Said It Better. Only for the third time in his career, Meat Loaf released an album without any songs written by Jim Steinman (not counting live bonus tracks on special edition releases). Although Meat Loaf claimed that Couldn't Have Said It Better was "the most perfect album [he] did since
Bat out of Hell", it wasn't quite as successful. However, the album was a minor success worldwide and reached #4 in the UK charts. There were many writers for the album including Diane Warren and James Michael. Diane Warren has written for Meat Loaf in the past and had some very big hits. James Michael had never written for Meat Loaf before and it was only his songs that were released as singles from the album. The album featured duets with
Patti Russo and Meat Loaf's daughter
Pearl Aday.
The album was a minor success worldwide and reached #4 in the UK charts, accompanied by a sellout world tour which was used to promote the album and some of Meat Loaf's biggest hits. One such performance on his world tour was at the Australian NRL Grand Final in the same year. There were many writers for the album including Diane Warren and James Michael, who were both asked to contribute his 2006 album .
Hair of the Dog and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
On February 20–22, 2004, during Meat Loaf's Australian tour, Meat Loaf did his classics with the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, titled
. He went as far as to bring in the Australian Boy's Choir to do back-up on a
Couldn't Have Said It Better track, "Testify". The show went on to spawn a DVD and a CD "Meat Loaf and The Neverland Express featuring Patti Russo Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra". The CD had few songs from the concert placed on it and were edited.
Meat Loaf sold out over 160 concerts during his 2005 tour, "Hair of the Dog". On November 17, 2003, 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. The following week, he underwent a surgical procedure intended to correct the problem. As a result, Meat Loaf's insurance agency did not allow him to perform for any longer than one hour and 45 minutes.
As well as singing all the classics, he sang a cover version of the hit single "Black Betty". During this tour Meat Loaf also sang "Only When I Feel", a song meant to appear on his then-upcoming album Bat out of Hell III. The song subsequently turned into "If It Ain't Broke (Break It)".
Bat out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
Meat Loaf and Steinman had begun to work on the third installment of
Bat out of Hell when Steinman suffered some health setbacks, including a heart attack. According to Meat Loaf, Steinman was too ill to work on such an intense project while Steinman's manager said health was not an 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 federal District Court in
Los Angeles, seeking $50 million and an injunction against Steinman's use of the phrase. Steinman and his representatives attempted to block the album's release. An agreement was reached in July 2006. According to Virgin, "the two came to an amicable agreement that ensured that Jim Steinman's music would be a continuing part of the 'Bat Out Of Hell' legacy."
The album was released on October 31, 2006, and was produced by Desmond Child. The first single from the album, "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (featuring Marion Raven) was released on October 16, 2006. It entered the UK singles chart at #6, giving Meat Loaf his highest UK chart position in nearly 11 years. The album debuted at #8 on the Billboard 200 and sold 81,000 copies in its opening week, but after that did not sell well in the U.S. and yielded no hit singles, although it was certified gold. The album also featured duets with Patti Russo and Jennifer Hudson.
In the weeks following the release of Bat III, Meat Loaf and the NLE (The Neverland Express) did a brief tour of America and Europe, known as the Bases Loaded Tour. In 2007, a newer, bigger worldwide tour began, the Seize the Night tour, with Marion Raven, serving as a supporting act, throughout the European and US tour. Portions of the tour in February 2007 were featured in the documentary , directed by Bruce David Klein. The film was an official selection of the Montreal World Film Festival in 2007. It opened in theaters in March 2008 and was released on DVD in May 2008.
During a performance at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK on October 31, 2007, at the opening of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" he suggested that the crowd of thousands should enjoy the performance as it was the last of his career. He attempted to sing the first line of the song, but instead said "Ladies and gentlemen, I love you, thank you for coming, but I can no longer continue." Removing the jacket he was wearing, he thanked the audience for 30 years, said "goodbye forever" and left the stage. His tour promoter, Andrew Miller, denied that this was the end for Meat Loaf and said he would continue touring after suitable rest. The next two gigs in the tour, at the NEC and Manchester Evening News Arena were cancelled because of "acute laryngitis" and were rescheduled for late November. The concert scheduled for November 6, 2007 at London's Wembley Arena was also cancelled. Meat Loaf cancelled his entire European tour for 2007 after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cords. After releasing a statement he said "It really breaks my heart not to be able to perform these shows" adding "I will be back".
On June 27, 2008, Meat Loaf returned to the stage in Plymouth, England for the first show of his Casa de Carne Tour alongside his longtime duet partner Patti Russo, who debuted one of her own original songs during his show. The tour continued through July and August with twenty dates throughout England, Ireland, Germany, Portugal, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. Six U.S. showdates were also added for October and December 2008.
Hang Cool Teddy Bear
In May 2009, Meat Loaf began work on the album
Hang Cool Teddy Bear in the studio with
Green Day's
American Idiot album producer
Rob Cavallo, working with such writers as
Justin Hawkins, Rick Brantley, Tommy Henriksen and
Jon Bon Jovi. Though not much was revealed officially to begin with, Meat Loaf gave away some information through videos he posted on Twitter and Youtube. The album is based on the story of a fictional soldier, whose "story" furnishes the album's theme. Each song presents "a different scenario in his future.
The album is based on a short story by L.A.-based screenwriter and director Kilian Kerwin, a long-time friend of the singer. Hugh Laurie and Jack Black both perform on the album, Laurie plays piano on the song "If I Can't Have You", while Black sings a duet with Meat Loaf on "Like A Rose". Meat Loaf himself describes the album as the "most important of his career", not as good as Bat out of Hell but in the same ball park. The guests, he says were not planned but he says the idea of using his friends came only when he saw them fit in a song and not as a commercial gimmick. Queen's Brian May features on guitar along with Steve Vai. It received positive reviews from critics and fans alike. The first single from the album, "Los Angeloser", was released for download on 5 April with the album charting at number 4 in the official UK album chart on April 25, 2010.
In an interview published May 11, 2010, Meat Loaf told Dunce Cap Quarterly music editor Stephanie R. Myers that he "wouldn't do another record without Rob Cavallo. So either I never do another record, or I do it with Rob Cavallo." He went on to assert that there was a "pretty good chance" Hang Cool Teddy Bear would be his last studio album.
Other work
He portrayed Travis Redfish in Alan Rudolph's 1980 film Roadie, which featured cameos by Debbie Harry, Alice Cooper, Roy Orbison and Hank Williams, Jr..
Meat Loaf appeared in the 1997 film Spice World with the Spice Girls as their bus driver. In that same year, Meat Loaf appeared in the Showtime series The Dead Man's Gun - The Mail Order Bride. He plays a blacksmith who marries a woman with a young son and rescues her from a vicious ex-lover.
In 1999 he appeared in the film Crazy in Alabama as sheriff John Doggett.
Meat Loaf had a supporting role as Robert Paulson in the 1999 film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 book Fight Club.
In 2000, he appeared as the viral meningitis addled Confederate Colonel Angus Devine in the sixth season episode "Gettysburg" of The Outer Limits who is accidentally transported forward in time 150 years in a failed attempt to prevent the assassination of the President in 2013.
He also appeared in the South Park episode "Chef Aid". In a flashback, Meat Loaf claims that he started out as an unsuccessful artist named Cous-cous. After being booed off stage and almost deciding to quit, Chef tells him that his name might be the problem, and then hands him a plate of meatloaf to cheer him up.
In 2001, Meat Loaf played vicious drug lord, "The Lizard", in Ronny Yu's caper movie The 51st State, opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Carlyle.
Meat Loaf appears in a 2003 episode of Bo' Selecta!, being interviewed, opera-style, by Avid Merrion.
Meat Loaf appears as Jake Feldman in the 2006 Masters of Horror episode Pelts.
Meat Loaf appears (uncredited) as Jack Black's father in the 2006 film Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, providing vocals on the film's opening song Kickapoo. In the special features and commentary of the film's DVD release, it is noted that this is the first time Meat Loaf has sung for a movie soundtrack since The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Meat Loaf made a cameo appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live as one of the celebrity singing choir for the musical sketch, "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck", which is a star-studded sketch where host Jimmy Kimmel responds to Sarah Silverman's sketch titled "I'm Fucking Matt Damon".
Meat Loaf appeared in an AT&T; GoPhone commercial and parodied "Let Me Sleep on It", part of the song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" with actor Adam Cagley playing his son and '80s pop diva Tiffany Darwish as his wife.
Meat Loaf currently has a show airing on DirecTV called
Rock and a Hard Place. It takes bands that are fairly well-known and asks them trivia questions to raise money for charity.
On April 6, 2009, Meat Loaf appeared on House in the episode "Simple Explanation" as Eddie, the sick husband of a patient.
Meat Loaf, along with his daughter
Pearl Aday and his longtime duet partner
Patti Russo, taped an episode of the FOX game show
Don't Forget the Lyrics! which aired on May 22, 2009.
In mid-2009, Meat Loaf appeared in TV commercials for
A1 Steak Sauce, in conjunction with the product's new slogan "A1 – Makes beef sing." In his commercial for the product, the slogan is "Makes Meat Loaf sing."
In September 2009, Meat Loaf appeared as Police Detective Jack Morris in The Hallmark Channel Original Movie Citizen Jane.
Meat Loaf made a guest appearance on the USA series Monk as Reverend Jorgenson, an owner of a voodoo shop and purveyor of voodoo dolls that show up at three killings in the area.
Meat Loaf was also a guest ghost hunter on SyFy's Ghost Hunters, episode 515 "A Bat out of Hell," which aired September 30, 2009. He helped investigate the Isle of Pines in Thousand Island, New York.
Meat Loaf was a guest on The Megan Mullaly Show, where he performed a duet with Megan to "Paradise By The Dashboard Light."
On January 13, 2010, Meat Loaf appeared on the ITV daytime talk show Loose Women.
In January 2010 Meat Loaf appeared as a judge on the British ITV1 celebrity reality television programme Popstar to Operastar.
On May 10, 2010, Meat Loaf appeared on WWE Monday Night RAW to promote his new CD, and was given an RKO by Randy Orton.
On August 15, 2010, Meat Loaf appeared on Huckabee on the Fox News Channel singing "Los Angeloser" with Mike Huckabee playing the bass guitar.
On October 26, 2010, Meat Loaf appeared (credited as "Meat Loaf Aday") on the
Fox show
Glee, in "
The Rocky Horror Glee Show," their tribute episode to
The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Personal life
Meat Loaf is said to have cheated death on numerous occasions, having crashed in a car which rolled over, been struck on the head with a shot during a
shot put event,
Meat Loaf's daughter Pearl is married to Scott Ian, rhythm guitar & song writer for thrash metal band Anthrax.
In 2001, he changed his first name to Michael.
Meat Loaf is a supporter of the northern English football team Hartlepool United and, in 2003, the BBC reported he was seeking a residence in the nearby area. Meat Loaf currently resides just outside of Calabasas, California, near Saddle Peak and Calabasas Peak.
Meat Loaf also does a considerable amount of charity work, and in June 2008 took part in a football penalty shootout competition on behalf of two cancer charities in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He auctioned shots to the 100 highest bidders and then took his place between the goal posts. He also participates in celebrity golf tournaments.
Meat Loaf also has a popular YouTube channel. He regularly posts vlogs to this channel, normally three or four at once. He also has numerous followers on Twitter.
Meat Loaf is a registered Republican.
Tours
Bat Out Of Hell Tour 1977-1979
Dead Ringer Tour 1981
Meat Loaf & The NLE Euro Tour '82
Meat Loaf World Tour 1983
Bad Attitude Tour 1984-1985
20/20 Tour 1987-1988
Lost Boys & Golden Girls 1988-1989
1990 Tour
*Also in 1990, Prince embarked on a greatest-hits tour called the Nude Tour, which prompted Jay Leno to crack, "I sure hope Meat Loaf's not going out on the road again!"
1991-1992 Tour
Everything Louder Tour 1993-1995
Born To Rock Tour 1996
The Very Best Of Tour 1999
Storytellers Tour 1999-2000
Night Of The Proms Tour 2001
Just Having Fun Tour 2002
Couldn't Have Said It Better 2003-2004
The Hair Of The Dog Tour 2005
The Three Bats Tour 2006 -2007
The Casa de Carne Tour 2008
The Hang Cool Tour 2010
Discography
Filmography
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!Release Year
!Character
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
|1975
|Eddie "An ex-delivery boy"
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Americathon
|1979
|Oklahoma Devil, Roy Budnitz
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Scavenger Hunt
|1979
|Scum
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Roadie
|1980
|Travis W. Redfish
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Dead Ringer
|1981
|Meat Loaf, Marvin
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Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
|1981
|Cameo
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Out of Bounds
|1986
|Gil
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Motorama
|1991
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Wayne's World
|1992
|Tiny
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Leap of Faith
|1992
|Hoover
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To Catch a Yeti
|1993
|Big Jake Grizzly
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Angels in the Outfield
|1993
|Angel
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Bean
|1997
|Cameo
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|1997
|Dennis
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Black Dog
|1998
|Red
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The Mighty
|1998
|Iggy Lee
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Crazy in Alabama
|1999
|Sheriff John Doggett
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Fight Club
|1999
|Robert 'Bob' Paulson
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Blacktop
|2000
|Jack
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The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
|2001
|Amos "Rattlesnake Jake" Frogge
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Face to Face
|2001
|Driver
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Rustin
|2001
|Coach Trellingsby
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Focus
|2001
|Fred
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Formula 51
|2002
|The Lizard
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A Hole in One
|2004
|Billy
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BloodRayne
|2005
|Leonid
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The Pleasure Drivers
|2005
|Dale (as Meat Loaf Aday)
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
|2006
|JB's father
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Masters of Horror
|2006
|Jake Feldman
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History Rocks
|2007
|Himself
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|2008
|Himself
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Tiger Force Forever: Unleashed
|2009
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Burning Bright
|2010
|Howie
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Television
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!Episode Title
!Release Year
!Character
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Strike Force
|"MIA"
|1985
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The Equalizer
|"Bump and Run"
|1985
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Tales from the Crypt
|"What's Cookin'?"
|1992
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The Dead Man's Gun
|"The Mail Order Bride"
|1997
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Nash Bridges
|"Wild Card"
|1997
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South Park
|"
Chef Aid"
|1998
|Cameo
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The Outer Limits
|"
Gettysburg"
|2000
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Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve
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|2007
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Private Sessions
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|2007
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|Go-Phone Commecrial
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|2007
|Singing Father
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The F Word
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|2008
|Himself
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Hannity
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|2009
|Member of Panel
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Tiger Force Forever: Unleashed
|
|2009
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Masters of Horror
|"Pelts"
|2009
|Jake
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House, M.D.
|"
Simple Explanation"
|2009
|Patient
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Don't Forget the Lyrics
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|2009
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Ghost Hunters
|"Bat Out of Hell"
|2009
|Himself
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Monk
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|2009
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Citizen Jane
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|2009
|Detective Jack Morris
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Popstar to Operastar
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|2010
|Judge
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WWE Raw
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|2010
|Himself
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Glee
|"
The Rocky Horror Glee Show"
|2010
|Barry Jeffries (Credited as: Meat Loaf Aday)
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Ghost Hunters
|"Sloss Furnaces"
|2010
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This Week
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|2010
|Himself
|}
References
Books
External links
Official website
Polish site about Meat Loaf
Meat Loaf talks about meeting John Lennon, new album 'Hang Cool Teddy Bear' and more on The Rock radio station
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