76 Facts About Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf is on the list of best-selling music artists.

Meat Loaf received the 1994 Brit Award in the United Kingdom for best-selling album and single.

Meat Loaf appeared in the 1997 film Spice World and he ranked 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts in 2006.

Meat Loaf appeared in over 50 films and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona.

Meat Loaf appeared in the musical Hair, both on and Off-Broadway.

Meat Loaf was born in Dallas, Texas, on September 27,1947, the son of Wilma Artie, a school teacher 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 wife and a friend under the name of the Griffin Grocery Company.

Meat Loaf's father was an alcoholic who went on drinking binges for days at a time, which started when he was medically discharged from the US Army during World War II after being wounded by fragments from a mortar shell.

Meat Loaf often accompanied his mother in driving to the bars in Dallas to look for his father, and often stayed with his grandmother.

When he was 16, on the day of the assassination of John F Kennedy, Meat Loaf had seen the President when he arrived at Dallas Love Field.

Meat Loaf played high school football at the position of defensive tackle.

Meat Loaf used the inheritance he received from his mother's death to rent an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three-and-a-half months until a friend found him.

Meat Loaf intentionally gained 60 pounds to fail his physical examination for the Vietnam War draft.

In Los Angeles, Meat Loaf formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul.

Meat Loaf later described his early days in the music industry as being treated like a "circus clown".

Meat Loaf then joined the Los Angeles production of the musical Hair.

Meat Loaf moved to Freeland, Michigan for a year and was the opening act at the Grande Ballroom 80 times.

In December 1972, Meat Loaf was in the original off-Broadway production of Rainbow at the Orpheum Theatre in New York.

Meat Loaf sang a Stoney and Meat Loaf favorite of his, " As Heavy as Jesus", and subsequently got the part of Rabbit, a maniac that blows up his fellow soldiers so they can "go home".

The success of the musical led to the filming of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in which Meat Loaf played only Eddie, a decision he said made the movie not as good as the musical.

In 1976, Meat Loaf recorded lead vocals for Ted Nugent's album Free-for-All when regular Nugent lead vocalist Derek St Holmes temporarily quit the band.

Meat Loaf sang lead on five of the album's nine tracks.

That same year, Meat Loaf appeared in his final theatrical show in New York City, the short-lived Broadway production of Gower Champion's rock musical Rockabye Hamlet.

Meat Loaf then decided to leave theater and concentrate exclusively on music.

Meat Loaf was cast as an understudy for John Belushi in the National Lampoon show Lemmings.

Meat Loaf gained national exposure as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on March 25,1978.

In 1978, Meat Loaf jumped off a stage in Ottawa, Ontario, breaking his leg.

In 1976, Meat Loaf appeared on the track "Keeper Keep Us", from the Intergalactic Touring Band's self-titled album, produced by Galfas.

Meat Loaf is credited with having been involved in the writing of some of the tracks on the album, including the title track, "Midnight at the Lost and Found".

Poor money management as well as 45 lawsuits totaling $80 million, including ones from Steinman, resulted in Meat Loaf filing for personal bankruptcy in 1983.

The bankruptcy resulted in Meat Loaf losing the rights to his songs, although he received royalties for Bat Out of Hell in 1997.

In 1984, Meat Loaf went to England, where he felt increasingly at home, to record the album Bad Attitude; it was released that year.

In 1985, Meat Loaf took part in some comedy sketches in the UK with Hugh Laurie.

Meat Loaf tried stand-up comedy, appearing several times in Connecticut.

Meat Loaf worked with songwriter John Parr on his next album, Blind Before I Stop, which was released in 1986 by Arista Records.

Meat Loaf was involved in the composition of three of the songs on the album.

Meat Loaf performed "Thrashin" for the soundtrack of the 1986 skateboarding film Thrashin'.

In March 1994, at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, Meat Loaf won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for "I'd Do Anything for Love".

Meat Loaf promoted the song with American vocalist Patti Russo, who performed lead female vocals on tour with him.

Meat Loaf released the single "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through", which reached No 13 in the United States.

In 1995, Meat Loaf released his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood.

I'd Lie for You was a duet with Patti Russo, who had been touring with Meat Loaf and singing on his albums since 1993.

In 1998, Meat Loaf released The Very Best of Meat Loaf.

In 2003, Meat Loaf released his album Couldn't Have Said It Better.

For only the third time in his career, Meat Loaf released an album without any songs written by Steinman.

The album was a minor commercial success worldwide and reached No 4 on the UK Albums Chart, accompanied by a sellout world tour to promote the album and some of Meat Loaf's best selling singles.

From February 20 to 22,2004, during an Australian tour, Meat Loaf performed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, in a set of concerts recorded for the album Bat Out of Hell: Live with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

In 2007, Meat Loaf began The Seize the Night Tour, with Marion Raven, serving as a supporting act.

Meat Loaf's tour promoter, Andrew Miller, said that it was a result of "exhaustion and stress" and said that Meat Loaf would continue touring after suitable rest.

Meat Loaf cancelled his entire European tour for 2007 after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal cords.

On June 27,2008, 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.

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, Ollie Wride, Tommy Henriksen, and Jon Bon Jovi.

Meat Loaf responded by calling online critics "butt-smellers", and the AFL "jerks", vowing to convince other artists not to play at the event.

In 2011, Meat Loaf planned to release a Christmas album called Hot Holidays featuring Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire, but the album was never released.

Meat Loaf reportedly assisted director David Fincher with the editing of the film.

Meat Loaf appears 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".

On October 26,2010, Meat Loaf appeared on the Fox television series Glee in "The Rocky Horror Glee Show", the series' tribute episode to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

In December 1978, Meat Loaf went to work with Steinman in Woodstock, New York, where his future wife, Leslie G Edmonds, was working as a secretary at Bearsville Studios; they were married in early 1979.

Meat Loaf adopted Pearl in 1979 and her last name was changed to Aday.

Meat Loaf coached children's baseball or softball in each of the Connecticut towns where he lived, including for his daughter's team at Joel Barlow High School.

Meat Loaf lived on Orchard Drive in Redding, Connecticut from 1989 to 1998.

Meat Loaf had lived on Beach Road in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Meat Loaf got Phil Rizzuto to recite the play-by-play of a young man racing around the bases in "Paradise by the Dashboard Light".

Meat Loaf participated in multiple fantasy baseball leagues every season.

Meat Loaf expressed support for the English Association football team Hartlepool United FC In June 2008, he took part in a football penalty shootout competition on behalf of two cancer charities in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Meat Loaf auctioned shots to the 100 highest bidders and then took his place between the goal posts.

Meat Loaf said that he spent time with fellow musicians mainly in work-related situations rather than social ones.

Meat Loaf was not officially registered with any political party.

Meat Loaf donated to the presidential campaigns of Republican candidates Rick Santorum and John McCain, the latter of whom became the party's nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election.

Meat Loaf said that he did not believe in climate change.

Meat Loaf has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn't.

Meat Loaf had asthma and, in July 2011, he fainted on stage while performing in Pittsburgh due to an asthma attack.

Meat Loaf collapsed again while on stage in Edmonton in June 2016 due to severe dehydration, after having already cancelled two other shows due to illness.

The playback containing his pre-recorded, voice-over vocal track continued while he lay unconscious on the stage, which caused controversy over lip syncing, claims that Meat Loaf denied, saying that his mic was live.

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.

At the 2019 Texas Frightmare Weekend at the Hyatt Regency DFW hotel, Meat Loaf fell off an interview stage and broke his clavicle.

Meat Loaf died in Nashville, Tennessee, on the evening of January 20,2022, at the age of 74.