Share this Story: Ill with COVID, rock star Meat Loaf dies aged 74Ill with COVID, rock star Meat Loaf dies aged 74 The singer and actor, otherwise known as Michael Lee Aday, sold more than 100 million records worldwide Photo by Bobby Yip/REUTERSArticle content LONDON — Meat Loaf, the U.S. rock star whose debut “Bat Out of Hell” became one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died aged 74. Delivering epic anthems about love, lust and motorcycles with an intensity bordering on melodrama, Meat Loaf became an enduring—and sometimes bombastic—rock icon in the late 1970s. Article content “Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away,” his family said in a statement. Meat Loaf treated interviews as a performance, spinning elaborate tales about his life, including the origin of his stage name, some of which referenced teenage taunts about his size. “I hope paradise is as you remember it from the dashboard light, Meat Loaf.” “He had the quality of being simultaneously frightening and cuddly.” British producer Pete Waterman said: “It was his voice—you knew what you got with Meat Loaf.

Source: National Post January 22, 2022 06:46 UTC