As BBC News notes, Meat Loaf was a unique star who sold 100 million albums worldwide and made notable appearances in movies including “Fight Club” and “Wayne’s World.” Meat Loaf was also known for his theatrical music videos, such as the epic, “Beauty and the Beast” styled “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).” Likewise, “Bat Out of Hell” was later adapted as a successful stage musical. The Dallas-born singer earned his iconic nickname from his father, who described him as looking like red meat when he was born, and high school football coach, who christened the teen player “The Loaf.”
Cher described the process of working with Meat Loaf on 1981 release “Dead Ringer for Love” as “so much fun.” However, although he was a world-renowned talent, Meat Loaf remained impressively humble, telling the BBC in 2006, “I’ve never been hip or cool — just right.” Meanwhile, the singer famously turned down a lucrative opportunity to sing opera because, as he told the publication in 2010, “I’m too rebellious, too crazy.”
Meat Loaf had “no regrets” about the choices he’d made along the way, even though he acknowledged, “[It] might have saved some of my voice, you know — doing 200 rock shows a year will take it out of you.” However, as “Bat Out of Hell” producer Todd Rundgren put it, “If Bruce Springsteen can take it over the top, Meat Loaf can take it five storeys higher.”
