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.
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.
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.
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.
Performers only go wacko when they fall from grace if they like the adulation more than the work.
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.
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
[when asked in 2003 interview whether he was born in 1947 or 1951] "1951. I have it on my passport and driving licence. [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."
Got his start in show business in a traveling stage production of the infamous play, "Hair".
Owns a production company called Yellow Rose, Inc. with actor Brett Cullen.
Is diabetic.
Has told numerous contradictory "official" stories of how he got his stage name.
Occasionally hosts VH1 show "The List" (1999).
Played 300 soldout concerts between 1987-91.
Fell off the stage and broke his leg during a concert at Toronto in 1978 - he finished the tour in a wheelchair.
Has had 17 concussions.
Well known as a singer. His song "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" was a major hit in the late 70s. The album from which this song came was also a top seller as well.
His 1970s album, 'Bat out of Hell', is the third highest selling album of all time, with an estimated 30,000,000 copies sold worldwide. It spent over 470 weeks in the UK charts - an all-time record.
Is a vegetarian.
According to "The Guiness Book Of World Records 2000" Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" is the biggest selling album in the UK ever.
Along with Derek St. Holmes, Meat Loaf handled lead vocals on Ted Nugent's 1976 Free For All record.
Both his movie Blacktop (2000) and his special appearance in TV series "Lightning Force" (1991) were filmed in Vancouver B.C., Canada.
Has an extensive line of theater credits including "Hair" and it's sequel "Rainbow", "More Than You Deserve" which collaborated him with his future lyricist Jim Steinman, William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" and the theater production of "The Rocky Horror Show", later to reprise his role in the film version The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
His dent in the 90s music scene with "Bat Out Of Hell 2: Back Into Hell" went all the way to number one and with roughly 18,000,000 copies sold worldwide, it is considered one of the biggest musical comebacks in music history.
His first obscure single with local Michigan band Popcorn Blizzard, "Hello/Once Upon A Time" sold 5,000 copies!
Was offered the title role in "Phantom Of The Opera" but turned it down
Made a very special appearance in Ann Magnusons Cinemax comedy movie special Vandemonium Plus (1987) (TV) - he played Steve The Piglet.
Despite his famous moniker, Marvin doesn't like to eat meatloaf.
Only single to chart in the United States for Meat Loaf in the 1980s was "I'm Gonna Love Her For Both Of Us" which peaked at #84 (He charted in the UK 4 times: in 1981 with Cher for "Dead Ringer for Love" (reaching #5), in 1983 for "Midnight at the Lost and Found" (#17), in 1984 for "Modern Girl" (#17) and in 1986 with John Parr for "Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries" (#31)).
According to the Encyclopedia of Rock Stars, Meat Loaf began a Slim Fast plan in 1990 and lost 84 pounds. This made him $1,000,000 richer
Had a massive standing ovation at the CBS convention in New Orleans in 1977-78
He was offered lead vocalist position in the rock band Foreigner, but wanted to stay with Jim Steinman.
Has played in two movies with Richard O'Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Spice World (1997).
Was starring Off-Off Broadway in Paul Foster and John Braden's "Silver Queen" at La Mama E.T.C. when he was offered the role of "Eddie" in the American stage premiere of "The Rocky Horror Show". He had to leave "Silver Queen" a week before closing. His role was taken over by "Silver Queen's" director Robert Patrick, who had to wrap Meat Loaf's costume's trousers around him twice.
Daughter Pearl Aday is a back-up singer with his band.
Won a Grammy for the song "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)"
Has two daughters: Pearl Aday and Amanda Aday.
17 November 2003 - Collapsed while performing on a London stage. Doctors said it was a prolonged, non-life threatening viral infection.
Was the producers' second choice to play "Bluto" in Animal House (1978) if "John Belushi" was unavailable.
Went to Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Texas.
Performed at the Australian NRL grand final on 5 October, 2003.
Admits to being a fantasy sports junkie.
Was a vegetarian for 15 years but then decided to eat meat. His favorite meat is pork chops.
In addition to songs from his own albums, his concerts usually include the song "Hot Patootie", which he sang as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
When he first started rehearsals for the stage version of The Rocky Horror Show neither he nor the rest of the cast was aware of the sexual content of the play. It was only relatively late into the rehearsal stage that they found out, when Tim Curry (who they had never met, he had been bought over from the London production) turned up on stage in full Frank-N-Furter costume and make up singing "Sweet Transvestite" that they realized what the show was really about. Meatloaf walked out of the rehearsals and refused to do the show, but was talked into doing one performance to see how it went. When he saw how much the audience loved the show he agreed to stay on for the entire run.
Lived in Freeland, Michigan for a few years with a family.
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