Meat Loaf (1947 - 2022)

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Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) passed away January 20 at the age of 74.

Reports are that COVID-19 was the cause.

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[at40petebattistini]

Whitburn's "Top 40 Hits 1955-1995" (published in 1996) says Meat Loaf was born in 1951, making him 70 when he passed away.

[mrjukebox]

My favorite Meat Loaf song is "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" which featured Ellen Foley & NY Yankees shortstop/broadcaster Phil Rizzuto who provided the play-by-play commentary.

[trekkielo]

May Meat Loaf rest in peace.

"Well now I have the first Top 40 hit by the latest in a long line of pop artists who named themselves after an item of food, during the 23 years of the rock era we've had Top 40 hits by such delectable sounding recording acts as Vanilla Fudge, Marmalade, Bread, Cream, The Cookies, Peaches & Herb, The Raspberries and The T-Bones, the most recent addition to the menu is a Texas singer who calls himself by the unlikely name Meat Loaf, when we spoke with him recently he told us how he happened to come up with that unusual tag, he was born Marvin Lee Aday, and while he was growing up his friends and family called him by his initials ML, then one day while he was in high school during a practive scrimmage with the school's football team, Marvin accidentally stepped on the coach's foot, now Marvin is a big cat, standing 6 foot 1 and weighing 260 lbs, and when he landed squarely on the coach's unsuspecting foot, the coach screamed, get off my foot you big hunk of meat loaf, and the name stuck (laughs) in fact, it stuck so well that several years ago Marvin Lee Aday, had his name legally changed to, Meat Loaf, this week he's up to #20 with his first Top 40 hit, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad..." - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from June 3rd, 1978

[trekkielo]

Jan 21, 2022 13:48:46 GMT -5 trekkielo said:

May Meat Loaf rest in peace.

"Well now I have the first Top 40 hit by the latest in a long line of pop artists who named themselves after an item of food, during the 23 years of the rock era we've had Top 40 hits by such delectable sounding recording acts as Vanilla Fudge, Marmalade, Bread, Cream, The Cookies, Peaches & Herb, The Raspberries and The T-Bones, the most recent addition to the menu is a Texas singer who calls himself by the unlikely name Meat Loaf, when we spoke with him recently he told us how he happened to come up with that unusual tag, he was born Marvin Lee Aday, and while he was growing up his friends and family called him by his initials ML, then one day while he was in high school during a practive scrimmage with the school's football team, Marvin accidentally stepped on the coach's foot, now Marvin is a big cat, standing 6 foot 1 and weighing 260 lbs, and when he landed squarely on the coach's unsuspecting foot, the coach screamed, get off my foot you big hunk of meat loaf, and the name stuck (laughs) in fact, it stuck so well that several years ago Marvin Lee Aday, had his name legally changed to, Meat Loaf, this week he's up to #20 with his first Top 40 hit, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad..." - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from June 3rd, 1978

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"Well now on AT40 I have the hit song by the artist who's in the countdown cause of a 12 pound iron ball that put a dent in his head, the rock singer that calls himself Meat Loaf told us this story, he's a very large man, and he was already a big kid by the time he reached the 9th grade in Dallas, Texas, he was a pretty fair athlete and had dreams of making it in professional sports, during track season Meat Loaf was a shot putter on the varsity, and one afternoon during practice another shot putter without looking down the field, let fly one of those 12 pound iron balls, it sailed for more than 60 feet, and it slammed into the side of Meat Loaf's head, now the shot knocked Meat Loaf down, but he said it didn't knock him out, so they tried to stand him up, but his left arm and his leg were paralyzed, and he couldn't speak, for 6 weeks he couldn't speak, and he lost all physical coordination, well the speech centers in the brain repaired themselves in about 2 months, but it was a year before his whole body was working reasonably well again, that killed Meat Loaf's dreams of ever becoming a pro athlete, and he turned to music, so if it weren't for that dent in Meat Loaf's head, he might be a defensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys, instead of a rock singer on American Top 40, here he is with his first big hit, at #14, Meat Loaf and, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad..." - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from June 17th, 1978

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Jan 21, 2022 9:29:47 GMT -5 at40petebattistini said:

Whitburn's "Top 40 Hits 1955-1995" (published in 1996) says Meat Loaf was born in 1951, making him 70 when he passed away.

Pete: All the releases I've seen have him at 74. If I see a correction, I will update.

It is perplexing because Whitburn is very reliable.

Thanks

Update: Reports are Meat Loaf succumbed to the COVID-19 virus.

[OnWithTheCountdown]

^ Same here. That is surprising about Whitburn, indeed.

[mrjukebox]

Per Wikipedia,Meat Loaf was born in 1947.

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

Interesting fact: Did you know that Meat Loaf's credit card had the name "Meat Loaf" on it? Oh, the interesting things you can learn on Pop-Up Video.

I know he was quite obese for many, many years. I am thinking he may have had underlying health issues at the time, and COVID-19 ultimately ended his life.

R.I.P., Meat Loaf.