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| Website http://www.meatloaf.net | Website http://www.meatloaf.net | ||
| - | Meat Loaf is the stage name of Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), an American actor (stage and screen) and rock singer. He is particularly noted for his smash hit album Bat out of Hell and several famous songs from movies. Meat Loaf is also the name of the band he fronts, as its lead singer. In 2001, he legally changed his first name to Michael. [1][2] | + | Meat Loaf is the stage name of Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947), an American actor (stage and screen) and rock singer. He is particularly noted for his smash hit album *Bat out of Hell* and several famous songs from movies. *Meat Loaf* is also the name of the band he fronts, as its lead singer. In 2001, he legally changed his first name to Michael. |
| - | Aday was born in Dallas, Texas. Despite setbacks (including bankruptcy, on more than one occasion), Meat Loaf is notable for the ultimate success of his music career, spawning some of the largest-selling albums of all time, and breaking several records for chart duration. Bat Out of Hell, the debut album which had been four years in the making, sold over 34 million copies, becoming more profitable than Michael Jackson's blockbuster Thriller. After almost 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over 9 years. [3] Each of the seven tracks on the album eventually charted as a single hit. | + | Aday was born in Dallas, Texas. Despite setbacks (including bankruptcy, on more than one occasion), Meat Loaf is notable for the ultimate success of his music career, spawning some of the largest-selling albums of all time, and breaking several records for chart duration. *Bat Out of Hell*, the debut album which had been four years in the making, sold over 34 million copies, becoming more profitable than Michael Jackson's blockbuster *Thriller*. After almost 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over 9 years. Each of the seven tracks on the album eventually charted as a single hit. |
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| - | Although he enjoyed success with Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, 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, and is one of only two artists with an album never to have left the music charts. 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. He ranked 96th on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'. | + | |
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| - | Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies or television shows[4] sometimes even as himself, or as characters resembling his onstage personality, such as his memorable role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He starred (unrecognizably out-of-character) in the acclaimed feature film Fight Club, as Robert "Bob" Paulson, a cancer-survivor support-group member who had testicular cancer, leading to castration. | + | |
| + | Although he enjoyed success with *Bat out of Hell* and *Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell*, 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, and is one of only two artists with an album never to have left the music charts. 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. 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 even as himself, or as characters resembling his onstage personality, such as his memorable role in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show*. He starred (unrecognizably out-of-character) in the acclaimed feature film *Fight Club*, as Robert "Bob" Paulson, a cancer-survivor support-group member who had testicular cancer, leading to castration. | ||
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| Meat Loaf was the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a policeman, and Wilma Artie Hukel, a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. Orvis was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. Meat Loaf and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Meat Loaf often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod. | Meat Loaf was the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a policeman, and Wilma Artie Hukel, a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. Orvis was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. Meat Loaf and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Meat Loaf often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod. | ||
| - | Although there have been various explanations for his stage name, according to his official website, his name started when his father called him "Meat" as a two-year-old. His schoolmates would later turn it into Meat Loaf as it has the same initials as his real name. While attending Thomas Jefferson High School, [5] he was never on a football team. Ever. | + | Although there have been various explanations for his stage name, according to his official website, his name started when his father called him "Meat" as a two-year-old. His schoolmates would later turn it into Meat Loaf as it has the same initials as his real name. While attending Thomas Jefferson High School, he was never on a football team. Ever. |
| - | Meat Loaf relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to Parkland Hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governor John Connally get pulled out, though they never saw Kennedy taken out. | + | Meat Loaf relates a story in his autobiography, *To Hell and Back*, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to Parkland Hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governor John Connally get pulled out, though they never saw Kennedy taken out. |
| After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, Meat Loaf transferred to North Texas State University. While there he was called in for an Army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being color blind, having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he's had seventeen of them). When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967, after seeing his mother hospitalized and her health deteriorating, Meat Loaf left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub. | After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, Meat Loaf transferred to North Texas State University. While there he was called in for an Army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being color blind, having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he's had seventeen of them). When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967, after seeing his mother hospitalized and her health deteriorating, Meat Loaf left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub. | ||
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| - | In Los Angeles, he formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul. During the recording of their first song, Meat Loaf hit a big note and blew the board dash; he was immediately offered three recording contracts. However, he turned them all down. Meat Loaf Soul's first gig was in Huntington Beach at the Cave, opening up for Them, Van Morrison's band. While performing their cover of the Yardbirds' "Smokestack Lightning", the smoke machine they used made too much smoke and the club had to be cleared out. Later, the band was the opening act at Cal State Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal and Janis Joplin. The band then underwent several changes at lead guitar, changing the name of the band each time - including Popcorn Blizard, and Floating Circus. As Floating Circus, they opened for The Who, The Fugs, The Stooges, MC5, Grateful Dead and The Grease Band. Their regional success led them to release a single, "Once Upon A Time" backed with "Hello". | + | In Los Angeles, he formed his first band, *Meat Loaf Soul*. During the recording of their first song, Meat Loaf hit a big note and blew the board dash; he was immediately offered three recording contracts. However, he turned them all down. Meat Loaf Soul's first gig was in Huntington Beach at the Cave, opening up for Them, Van Morrison's band. While performing their cover of the Yardbirds' "Smokestack Lightning", the smoke machine they used made too much smoke and the club had to be cleared out. Later, the band was the opening act at Cal State Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal and Janis Joplin. The band then underwent several changes at lead guitar, changing the name of the band each time - including *Popcorn Blizard*, and *Floating Circus*. As Floating Circus, they opened for The Who, The Fugs, The Stooges, MC5, Grateful Dead and The Grease Band. Their regional success led them to release a single, "Once Upon A Time" backed with "Hello". |
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| - | After the break up of Floating Circus, Meat Loaf had several odd jobs, including being a body guard for Question Mark. Having no steady work, Meat Loaf decided to get a job as a parking lot attendant with a friend of his. A man pulled up in the parking lot that Meat Loaf thought might be the guy that was going to hire him. The man asked Meat Loaf what he did beside park cars and Meat Loaf told him that he was a singer. The guy said that he should come in and audition for Hair .. Not being prepared, Meat Loaf told the piano player to play the sixteen-bar blues in C. After singing the first sixteen-bars of "The World Is Alright, It's the People that Make It Bad", they asked to sing "Aquarius", play General Ulysses S. Grant and the Young Recruit. When he went to the show that night, the sprinklers came on half way through and ended the show. Meat Loaf went on to do the show in Los Angeles and then for a six month run in Detroit, Michigan. | + | After the break up of Floating Circus, Meat Loaf had several odd jobs, including being a body guard for Question Mark. Having no steady work, Meat Loaf decided to get a job as a parking lot attendant with a friend of his. A man pulled up in the parking lot that Meat Loaf thought might be the guy that was going to hire him. The man asked Meat Loaf what he did beside park cars and Meat Loaf told him that he was a singer. The guy said that he should come in and audition for *Hair* .. Not being prepared, Meat Loaf told the piano player to play the sixteen-bar blues in C. After singing the first sixteen-bars of "The World Is Alright, It's the People that Make It Bad", they asked to sing "Aquarius", play General Ulysses S. Grant and the Young Recruit. When he went to the show that night, the sprinklers came on half way through and ended the show. Meat Loaf went on to do the show in Los Angeles and then for a six month run in Detroit, Michigan. |
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| - | With the publicity generated from Hair, Meat Loaf was invited to record with Motown. They suggested that he do a duet with Stoney Murphy, to which he agreed. They were given songs written by Motown's production team in charge of the album and only came in 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 was released in advance of the album titled 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, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper and Rare Earth. He left soon after Motown cut his and Stoney's vocals from the only one of three songs he liked (the others being "I'd Love To Be As Heavy As Jesus" and "What You See Is What You Get"}, "Who is the Leader of the People?", which the vocals were replaced by Edwin Starr. The album has been re-released after his success, cutting Stoney's vocals from all songs cut from the original Stoney and Meatloaf album. "Who is the Leader of the People?" was released with Meat Loaf's vocals intact, only Stoney was missing and the album failed. Stoney, in Meat Loaf's absence, brought out a solo single which flopped and quit Motown shortly after. | + | With the publicity generated from *Hair*, Meat Loaf was invited to record with Motown. They suggested that he do a duet with Stoney Murphy, to which he agreed. They were given songs written by Motown's production team in charge of the album and only came in 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 was released in advance of the album titled *What You See Is What You Get*. It 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, Bob Seger, Alice Cooper and Rare Earth. He left soon after Motown cut his and Stoney's vocals from the only one of three songs he liked (the others being "I'd Love To Be As Heavy As Jesus" and "What You See Is What You Get"}, "Who is the Leader of the People?", which the vocals were replaced by Edwin Starr. The album has been re-released after his success, cutting Stoney's vocals from all songs cut from the original Stoney and Meatloaf album. "Who is the Leader of the People?" was released with Meat Loaf's vocals intact, only Stoney was missing and the album failed. Stoney, in Meat Loaf's absence, brought out a solo single which flopped and quit Motown shortly after. |
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| More Than You Deserve | 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", 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. | + | 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", 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, for the record company wouldn't allow its press release. With those three copies he released many rare cds featuring the two songs, but they can rarely be spotted at CD outlets. He later recorded it again in 1981. | + | 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, for the record company wouldn't allow its press release. With those three copies he released many rare cds featuring the two songs, but they can rarely be spotted at CD outlets. He later recorded it again in 1981. |
| + | *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. Scott. The success of the play led to the filming of *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* where Meat Loaf just played Eddie. 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 *Rock-a-bye 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, one of *which was recorded for his *Live Around the World* CD set in 1996. | |
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| - | 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. Scott. The success of the play led to the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show where Meat Loaf just played Eddie. 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 Rock-a-bye 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, one of which was recorded for his Live Around the World CD set in 1996. | + | |
| During his recording of the soundtrack for Rocky Horror, Meat Loaf recorded 3 more songs as well: Take a Number, Stand By Me (a cover), and Clap Your Hands. They weren't released until his 80's singles were released for an unknown reason. | During his recording of the soundtrack for Rocky Horror, Meat Loaf recorded 3 more songs as well: Take a Number, Stand By Me (a cover), and Clap Your Hands. They weren't released until his 80's singles were released for an unknown reason. | ||
| + | *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. Meat Loaf decided to leave theater, and concentrate exclusively on his music career. 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 ended up singing "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" with him on the album *Bat out of Hell*. | ||
| - | 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 playing lead guitar on it. 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. |
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| - | 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. Meat Loaf decided to leave theater, and concentrate exclusively on his music career. 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 ended up singing " Paradise by the Dashboard Light" with him on the album Bat out of Hell. | + | |
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| - | 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 playing lead guitar on it. 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. | + | |
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| - | Meat Loaf's first gig in support of the record was opening for Cheap Trick in Chicago; the audience started out hostile, but by the end of the show, they had been won over. Their next stop came a couple of days after the release of the album in New Jersey. The show was a complete sell-out, and people lined up to see it hours before it started. Things really started to take off after Meat Loaf appeared on Saturday Night Live, as the Musical Guest, on March 25, 1978. (That evening's host, Christopher Lee, introduced him saying, "I'd like you to meet . . . Loaf. . .. . Oh . . . 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. | + | |
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| - | During a show in Ottawa, Meat Loaf fell off the stage and broke his leg. The injury caused him to cancel the rest of the tour. Unable to handle the pressure , Meat Loaf resorted to cocaine, ultimately culminating in a nervous breakdown where he 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 followed in her stepfather's footsteps and 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 and 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. | + | |
| - | Just as his singing career looked as if it was reaching a dead end, he was given the role of Travis Redfish in Roadie. The movie had cameos by Debbie Harry, Roy Orbison and Hank Williams, Jr., but still was a box office flop. | + | Meat Loaf's first gig in support of the record was opening for *Cheap Trick* in Chicago; the audience started out hostile, but by the end of the show, they had been won over. Their next stop came a couple of days after the release of the album in New Jersey. The show was a complete sell-out, and people lined up to see it hours before it started. Things really started to take off after Meat Loaf appeared on Saturday Night Live, as the Musical Guest, on March 25, 1978. (That evening's host, Christopher Lee, introduced him saying, "I'd like you to meet . . . Loaf. . .. . Oh . . . 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. |
| - | Over time Meat Loaf got his singing voice back and got off drugs. The struggles that Meat Loaf faced during the making of Bat out of Hell paid off. It now has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest-sellers of all time (just in the UK its 2.1 million sales put it in 38th place). Despite peaking at #9 and spending only two weeks in the top ten in 1981, it has now clocked up 474 weeks on the UK album chart, a figure bettered by only one other album - Fleetwood Mac's Rumours with 478 . In Australia, it knocked the Bee Gees off the number #1 spot and went on to become the biggest-selling Australian album of all time. Bat out of Hell is also one of only two albums that have never exited the Top 200 in the UK charts; this makes it the longest stay in any music chart in the world, although the published chart contains just 75 positions. | + | During a show in Ottawa, Meat Loaf fell off the stage and broke his leg. The injury caused him to cancel the rest of the tour. Unable to handle the pressure , Meat Loaf resorted to cocaine, ultimately culminating in a nervous breakdown where he 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 followed in her stepfather's footsteps and 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 and 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. |
| + | Just as his singing career looked as if it was reaching a dead end, he was given the role of Travis Redfish in *Roadie*. The movie had cameos by Debbie Harry, Roy Orbison and Hank Williams, Jr., but still was a box office flop. | ||
| + | Over time Meat Loaf got his singing voice back and got off drugs. The struggles that Meat Loaf faced during the making of *Bat out of Hell* paid off. It now has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, making it one of the biggest-sellers of all time (just in the UK its 2.1 million sales put it in 38th place). Despite peaking at #9 and spending only two weeks in the top ten in 1981, it has now clocked up 474 weeks on the UK album chart, a figure bettered by only one other album - Fleetwood Mac's *Rumours* with 478 . In Australia, it knocked the Bee Gees off the number #1 spot and went on to become the biggest-selling Australian album of all time. *Bat out of Hell* is also one of only two albums that have never exited the Top 200 in the UK charts; this makes it the longest stay in any music chart in the world, although the published chart contains just 75 positions. | ||
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| - | In 1980, Meat Loaf started working on Dead Ringer. Steinman wrote all of the songs, but had little else to do with the album. At the time, his manager, David Sonnenberg, stepped out, and Todd Dellentash stepped in to manage Meat Loaf's career. The tour they planned, to support the album, was canceled after one show, because they ran out of the money that the studio advanced them. Sonnenberg and Dellentash also convinced Sony Records and CBS to advance more money for the making of the movie Dead Ringer, which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and won some favorable reviews, but was poorly considered after Dellentash and Sonenberg re-edited the movie. | + | In 1980, Meat Loaf started working on *Dead Ringer*. Steinman wrote all of the songs, but had little else to do with the album. At the time, his manager, David Sonnenberg, stepped out, and Todd Dellentash stepped in to manage Meat Loaf's career. The tour they planned, to support the album, was canceled after one show, because they ran out of the money that the studio advanced them. Sonnenberg and Dellentash also convinced Sony Records and CBS to advance more money for the making of the movie *Dead Ringer*, which was shown at the Toronto Film Festival and won some favorable reviews, but was poorly considered after Dellentash and Sonenberg re-edited the movie. |
| - | In 1981, Leslie gave birth to Amanda Aday, now a television actress. That same year, Meat Loaf changed managers, after finding out that Dellentash and Sonenberg were stealing his money. They had all of Meat Loaf's assets frozen, and sued him for breach of contract. They also started spreading rumors about how Meat Loaf was violent, and had threatened people with guns. Meat Loaf ended up declaring bankruptcy. In 1983, he released the self written Midnight at the Lost and Found. Meat Loaf himself, a poor songwriter by his own admission, did not care for the songs he had written for the album. | + | In 1981, Leslie gave birth to Amanda Aday, now a television actress. That same year, Meat Loaf changed managers, after finding out that Dellentash and Sonenberg were stealing his money. They had all of Meat Loaf's assets frozen, and sued him for breach of contract. They also started spreading rumors about how Meat Loaf was violent, and had threatened people with guns. Meat Loaf ended up declaring bankruptcy. In 1983, he released the self written *Midnight at the Lost and Found*. Meat Loaf himself, a poor songwriter by his own admission, did not care for the songs he had written for the album. |
| - | In 1984, Meat Loaf went to England, to record the album Bad Attitude, which included a duet with Roger Daltrey and two songs written by Jim Steinman; the recording of the album was rushed. During the tour to support the album, Leslie had a nervous breakdown and had to check into Silver Hill rehab facility in Connecticut. Things finally looked like they were going to turn around in 1986, when Meat Loaf found a new writer, John Parr, and started recording a new album, Blind Before I Stop. Unfortunately, the producer put a dance beat underneath every song, which resulted in critical failure, and Meat Loaf going bankrupt, eventually losing everything. His relationships with lifelong friend Jim Steinman and Leslie also deteriorated. | + | In 1984, Meat Loaf went to England, to record the album *Bad Attitude*, which included a duet with Roger Daltrey and two songs written by Jim Steinman; the recording of the album was rushed. During the tour to support the album, Leslie had a nervous breakdown and had to check into Silver Hill rehab facility in Connecticut. Things finally looked like they were going to turn around in 1986, when Meat Loaf found a new writer, John Parr, and started recording a new album, *Blind Before I Stop*. Unfortunately, the producer put a dance beat underneath every song, which resulted in critical failure, and Meat Loaf going bankrupt, eventually losing everything. His relationships with lifelong friend Jim Steinman and Leslie also deteriorated. |
| - | To try to get his career back off the ground, Meat Loaf started touring small venues, anywhere that would have him, such as pubs and clubs. Slowly, he developed a faithful following which grew to the point where they were unable to fit into the venues that Meat Loaf was playing, and then they too began to grow. This carried on until the late '80s, where he began to sell out arenas and stadiums again, including over 10,000 tickets at Ohio State University. Leslie studied to be a travel agent, so they could save on travel expenses, and they toured all over the United States, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain. Due to the success of the touring, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman began to work on Bat out of Hell II which was finally released in 1993, sixteen years after Bat out of Hell. The album was a huge success and is considered one of the greatest comebacks in music history. | + | To try to get his career back off the ground, Meat Loaf started touring small venues, anywhere that would have him, such as pubs and clubs. Slowly, he developed a faithful following which grew to the point where they were unable to fit into the venues that Meat Loaf was playing, and then they too began to grow. This carried on until the late '80s, where he began to sell out arenas and stadiums again, including over 10,000 tickets at Ohio State University. Leslie studied to be a travel agent, so they could save on travel expenses, and they toured all over the United States, Germany, England, Scandinavia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Abu Dhabi, Oman and Bahrain. Due to the success of the touring, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman began to work on *Bat out of Hell II* which was finally released in 1993, sixteen years after *Bat out of Hell*. The album was a huge success and is considered one of the greatest comebacks in music history. |
| Meat Loaf and Leslie divorced in 2001. He is now engaged to be married again. Deborah Gillespie, his fiancée, hails from Edmonton. | Meat Loaf and Leslie divorced in 2001. He is now engaged to be married again. Deborah Gillespie, his fiancée, hails from Edmonton. | ||
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