A ’Loaf Supreme
The mighty Meat Loaf, the force of nature who brought the epic, crazed and fantastical to rock, left us on January 20.
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Meat Loaf singing Bat Out Of Hell on-stage with Karla DeVito, 1978;
With songwriter Jim Steinman.
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“DO YOU THINK if I chose a stage name today, I’d call myself Meat Loaf?” the singer and actor born Marvin Lee Aday asked MOJO in 2013. “Nobody in their right mind would call themselves Meat Loaf.” But Meat Loaf, who died on January 20, understood the value of his name.