Meat Loaf Biography

Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, was born on September 27th 1947 in Dallas, Texas. He owes his nickname to his own father, who called him this way since his 13th year of life because of his considerable girth.

The musical talent Meat Loaf became from his mother, a singer, who even performed in Bing Cosby's Radioshow.

1966 Meat Loaf moved to the musical metropolis L.A., where he founded his first bands "Popcorn Blizzard", and later "Meat Loaf Soul" and "The Floating Circus". He was the preceding programme of stars like The Who, The Stouges or Edgar Winter, but except of this he was not successfull at all. So he had to earn his money as a car park attendant. After some time the singer, whose voice had covered four octaves, devoted himself to theater. In musicals like "Hair" or "Jesus Christ Superstar" Meat Loaf could celebrate first success.

In 1970 Meat recorded a LP with Stoney, a member of the "Hair"- ensemble, but the LP "Meat Loaf & Stoney" was a commercial flop. 1973 he went to New York. He was singing in the Broadway-Musical "Rainbow in New York" and attracted the songwriter and texter Jim Steinman`s attraction, who engaged him right from the spot for his piece "More than you deserve" (later a song on the LP "Dead Ringer"). Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman - a productive connection, which will cause a sensation.

1975 Meat met Ted Nugent, who urgently searched for a singer. Result: The song "I love you so I told you a lie" on the Nugent-LP "Free for all" sung by Meat Loaf. In the same year Meat Loaf accepted the part of the rocker "Eddie" in the meanwhile legendary "Rocky Horror Picture Show". His short, but convincing performance (he sung "Hot Patootie Bless My Soul") brought him in a contract with Epic Records.

1977 the mega album "Bat Out Of Hell", produced by Todd Rundgren, came out. The co-operation between Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf beared golden fruits: The album broke all records and is still standing in the list the best near Michael Jackson?s "Thriller" and Pink Floyd`s evergreen "Dark Side Of The Moon".

During the following extensive "Bat Out Of Hell" world tour Meat Loaf ruined his voice, so he was not able to record the next LP "Bad For Good".

Songwriter Jim Steinman published the work in 1981 as his own solo album. 1979 Meat Loaf played the main part (beside Debbie Harry and Alice Cooper) in the film "Roadie". The cinema film became a box-office success.

After some healthy problems, various diets and quarrels with the management, in 1982 the "Bat Out Of Hell"-successor "Dead Ringer" was published. Although not as successful as "Bat Out Of Hell", it contained two hits at least: "Dead Ringer For Love" (the duett with superstar Cher) and "Read ?em And Weep". Two years later the album "Bad Attitude", recorded in the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, came out (US-No. 1 hit "Modern Girl").

In 1986 Meat met the successful german pop-producer Frank Farian, who always had a faible for good rock. The result of this collaboration is the LP "Blind Before I Stop".

Meat Loaf, called from various jounalists as "the Richard Wagner of Rock", had his big come-back in 1993 with the album "Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell": More than one time Meat Loaf proves his enormous voice, which contains the extacy of Soul, the devotion of Gospel and the enthusiasm of Rock'n'Roll.

In 1995 his last album (until now) came out: "Welcome To The Neighbourhood"...