When was meatloaf the singer born

Unlike the character Meat Loaf played in the movie Roadie--a roadie who hated to leave Texas--Meat never looked back. By Meat had formed the L. Despite opening for the likes of The Who, Iggy Pop, and the brothers Winter, two years later Meat was working as a parking lot attendant.

On the job, he met an actor who encouraged him to try out for Hair, a musical that has provided many a talent with their first role in music showbiz. Meat landed the role of Ulysses S. This was the first of many "big" roles for the massive musician--for example, the casting of Meat as Buddha in a musical called Rainbow. Thus it was as a musical actor, not a band vocalist, that Meat Loaf came to the attention of Jim Steinman, a man who would make Meat Loaf as popular as the dish he was named after.

Joining up again a year later, the pair settled down in New York's Ansonia Hotel. There the duo began a year-long rehearsal of songs, some of which Steinman had written for the musical Never Land, a futuristic version of Peter Pan.

Meat, surely an unlikely Pan, bellowed Steinman's grandiose lyrics on his first solo album, the phenomenon Bat Out of Hell.

After various deals had fallen through, Todd Rundgren had produced the album for Epic. To drum up interest in Bat, Meat toured the country with a seven-piece band and feisty Karla De Vito singing the female parts of what was essentially a teen opera. The song "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" typified Bat's theme of teenage sexuality. America loved it; the bulging bard's album sat on the charts for over a year and a half, though it never broke into the Top Ten.

And in the U. The only major U. According to a article in Rolling Stone, that left Steinman "pissed off," for he'd written Bat as a righteous rock and roll attack on "L. By the early nineties Bat had sold over 30 million copies world wide. But according to Steinman, since neither of its creators had seen one penny in royalties apparently due to legal squabbles.

The compounding situations propelled Meat Loaf into a nasty drug habit. Meat Loaf's second album, Dead Ringer , proved to be a disappointment, further adding to his problems. Facing lawsuits, including one filed by Steinman, and poor money management, Meat Loaf filed for bankruptcy in For the next several years Meat Loaf continued to churn out music, including albums like Bad Attitude and Blind Before I Stop to mixed results.

But the hardworking singer continued to tour. In addition, Meat Loaf again showed his talents as an actor, with appearances in Wayne's World and Fight Club Meat Loaf made a full recovery. Collaborating with Steinman once again, the singer plans on releasing his upcoming album Brave and Crazy in September In , Meat Loaf suffered a health scare when he collapsed onstage in London.

Doctors later diagnosed him with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which causes an irregular heartbeat. In June , Meat Loaf experienced another collapse on stage, this time during a concert in Edmonton, Canada.

According to his spokesman, the singer is recovering well and had collapsed due to dehydration. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Finished off his promo tour for his new album and planned the first leg of his world tour. He visited the campus to receive the reward presented by Robert Wilonsky, a previous recipient of the same award.

He was brought in as a temporary replacement for Derek St. Holmes on Ted Nugent 's second album "Free-for-All". He is one of the most commercially successful rock performers to have been consistently ignored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He became eligible for induction in 25 years from the release of his first solo album, the legendary "Bat out of Hell". Desperate for money and out of work He went down for a parking lot job at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood and ended up auditioning for the play Hair and got the part.

The Parking lot job did pay more than the acting gig and that's how Meatloaf got his start in show-business. I have it on my passport and driving license. I was born in but see what a great thing it is, because everybody asks me? And I can keep it up--I can tell you I was born in Names and ages piss me off. So I just continually lie. I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world. As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror.

I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast. Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place. There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life. The day that I ever become hip My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny. Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet. I'm asthmatic.