Michael Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows.
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Michael Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor. He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His most notable film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Robert Paulson in Fight Club. He ranks 96th on VH1’s \”100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock\”. The Motown production team in charge of the album Hair selected him to lay down the vocals on their album, which he then recorded with Shaun Murphy, who had performed with him in Hair. The album was released on September 25, 1998. The first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. The second and third albums were released in 1999 and 2001. The fourth and final album was published in 2002. It was the first of a three-part series called Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. The trilogy was released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of The Godfather of Rock and Roll, a film based on the novel by Robert Mitchum. The third and final installment was released in 2004 and has sold over 50 million copies worldwide. It is the only album in the trilogy to stay on the Billboard charts for more than nine years.
The last two albums have sold over 20 million copies, making them the second- and third-best selling albums in the history of the music industry, behind only The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Rolling Stones. The band’s first gig was in Huntington Beach in 1968 at the Cave, opening for Van Morrison’s band Them and Question Mark and the Mysterians. Later, the band was the opening act at Cal State Northridge for Taj Mahal, and Janis Joplin. As Floating Circus, they opened for the Who, the Fugs, the Stooges, MC5, the Grateful Dead, and the Grease Band. In the 1990s, he joined the Los Angeles production of the musical Hair. He later stated that the biggest life struggle he had not taken seriously was being taken seriously in music industry. He compared his treatment to that of acircus clown. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time, which started when he was invalided out of the army during World War II after being hit with shrapnel from a mortar. In 1965, Aday graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having already started his acting career via school productions such as Where’s Charley? and The Music Man. After he received his inheritance from his mother’s death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months until a friend found him. A short time later, he caught the next flight to Los Angeles.
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