Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas, and moved to Los Angeles in 1967 to play in local bands. In 1970, he moved to New York and appeared in the Broadway musicals “Hair””, “”Rockabye Hamlet”” and “”The Rocky Horror Show”” and Off Broadway in “”Rainbow””,””More Than You Deserve””, “”National Lampoon Show”” and the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of “”As You Like it”” and other productions at the famed New York Public Theatre. He made his film debut with a memorable role in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).In 1977, he and lyricist Jim Steinman released an operatic rock album called “”Bat Out Of Hell””; the record was huge and has sold 50,000,000 copies worldwide and is tied with AC/DC for the 2nd best selling record of all time. The tour and promoting the album took a toll on Meat Loaf’s voice and left him unable to sing for 2 years, but with months of rehabilitation, he was able to get back in the studio and record the album “”Dead Ringer””.Meat Loaf stayed in the dark through the 1980s in the US, recording 4 records which got very little airplay or high chart positions in the US but continued to have major chart success in Europe and Australia . The 1981 Single “”Dead Ringer for Love””, a duet with Cher, was a top 10 single in many countries outside the US, but was a song American radio refused to play.Meat Loaf had many film roles, such as the lead character Travis Redfish in Roadie (1980); a pilot in Out of Bounds (1986); in The Squeeze (1987) with Michael Keaton; and Fred in Focus (2001) (based on the Authur Miller book by the same name), with Laura Dern and William H. Macy.When Meat Loaf and Steinman got back together in 1993, they delivered a powerful sequel “”Bat Out Of Hell II”” which went to #1 in the US and UK and 26 other countries. Bat II has now sold over 22,000,000 copies.Meat Loaf’s TV credits include guest starring roles as a soldier being held prisoner in Vietnam in Lightning Force (1991), a newspaper reporter in the hit series Glee (2009), a slick landlord of a restaurant who ends up on the menu in HBO series Tales from the Crypt (1989) a blacksmith on the Showtime series Dead Man’s Gun (1997), Masters of Horror (2005) episode Masters of Horror: Pelts (2006) in the role as fur trader Jake, many others including House (2004) as the caring husband Eddie. Hugh Laurie (the star of “”House””) played piano on the song “”If I Can’t Have You”” on Meat Loaf’s album “”Hang Cool Teddy Bear”” produced by award winning Record Producer Rob Cavallo . Actor Jack Black also sang with Meat Loaf on the album. Meat Loaf recently had the supporting role of Doug in the SYFY series Ghost Wars (2017).Meat Loaf has also appeared in the films Crazy in Alabama (1999), Formula 51 (2001) with Samuel L. Jackson, Fight Club (1999) with Brad Pitt and many other film roles.”
Meat Loaf
Movies
Fight Club
A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with…
Fun Facts
Got his start in show business in a traveling stage production of the infamous play, "Hair"".
Owns a production company called Yellow Rose
Quotes
[asked in 2003 interview whether he was born in 1947 or 1951] 1951. I have it on my passport and driving license. [I said 1947 in my autobiography] because I just wanted to maintain a constant lie. I was born in 1951 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 1952. Names and ages piss me off. So I just continually lie.
Rock and roll is about getting free beer and getting laid.
I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.
'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. 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... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
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. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
A lot of actors, they know the camera's there, and if somebody moves around or makes noise or whatever then they get all distracted, but I pretty much lock in. You can't distract me too much.
When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.
When I do film, I really take on roles and I take on characters.
You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.
There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.
It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.
In the early 1980s, I got into a war with my management - they just kept on suing me and I lost everything. So I had to go out on tour to make sure the electricity stayed on.