Meat Loaf, one of the top selling musicians of all time, has died at 74
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Meat Loaf, the larger-than-life singer whose 1977 record “Bat Out of Hell” is one of the best-selling albums of all time, has died at age 74 , according to a statement on his verified Facebook page.
Meat Loaf, musician and actor who appeared in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Fight Club and on Celebrity Apprentice, has died
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If you were the kind of kid who watched as many of those 24 MTV hours as possible you were probably too young to remember the song as a radio hit. And so it seemed louche and exotic and corny all at once — Meat Loaf’s ruffled tuxedo shirt, his tossed hair and flung scarf, his leering gaze and open-mouthed make-out with singer Karla DeVito and those brazenly sexual lyrics. We’re gonna go all the way tonight, we’re gonna go all the way, and tonight’s the night. It’s soooo ’70s! we thought from the distant vantage of 1982.
Weber Grills Apologizes for Ill-Timed Meatloaf Recipe Email
NEW YORK (AP) — Weber picked the wrong day to suggest grilling meatloaf.
The outdoor grill maker apologized on Friday for sending a recipe-of-the-week email earlier that day featuring instructions on how to prepare “BBQ Meat Loaf.”
The email coincided with news of the death of Marvin Lee Aday, best known as rock superstar Meat Loaf.
Not long after sending out its recipe, Weber Grills followed up, offering its “sincerest apologies” to recipients.
“At the time we shared this recipe with you, we were not aware of the unfortunate passing of American singer and actor Mr. Marvin Lee Aday, also known as Meat Loaf,” Weber said. “We want to express our deepest apologies for this oversight and for any offense this email may have caused.”
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The company based in Palatine, Illinois, offered its condolences to Aday’s family and fans, signing off as “The Weber Family.”
Meat Loaf, who shot to fame on the back of anthems such as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” and “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” died Thursday, according to a family statement provided by his longtime agent Michael Greene. He was 74.
How Meat Loaf almost put Prince Andrew in his place: Tossed into a moat
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Meat Loaf apparently had Prince Andrew’s number long before everyone else did, telling the Duke of York at a royal charity event in 1987 that he’d shove him into a moat after he got angry that his wife, Sarah Ferguson, was paying too much attention to the American rocker.
Fans are recalling Meat Loaf’s encounter with Prince Andrew after they learned of the “Bat Out of Hell” singer’s death Thursday, at age 74, reportedly due to COVID-19.
As Meat Loaf told The Guardian in 2003, he spent time with Andrew and Sarah in 1987 while appearing in a televised British charity event called “It’s a Royal Knockout.” The show featured members of the royal family and celebrities, competing in games as teams to support different causes.
Meat Loaf ‘grabbed Prince Andrew and said ‘I don’t give a s**t who you are’’ after the Duke ’tried to push the singer into a moat’ in 1987https://t.co/mnyGWJOPdE — Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) January 21, 2022
Overall, Meat Loaf, whose real name was Marvin Lee Aday, said doing the show was “a lot of fun,” but the Texas-born musician also recalled how he and Sarah were placed on the same team and how the Duchess of York paid him a lot of “attention.”
He told The Guardian: “Fergie wasn’t exactly flirting with me, but she was paying attention to me, and I think Andrew got a little — I could be wrong, I’m just reading into this — I think he got a little jealous.”
“Anyway, he tried to push me in the water,” Meat Loaf continued. “He tried to push me in the moat. So I turned around and I grabbed him and he goes, ‘You can’t touch me. I’m royal.’ I said, ‘Well you try to push me in the moat, Jack, I don’t give a (expletive) who you are, you’re goin’ in the moat.’”
In 1987, Andrew and Sarah were newlyweds, having tied the knot in a globally televised royal wedding the year before.
For Meat Loaf, manhandling Queen Elizabeth II’s reportedly favorite son didn’t do him any favors with the royal family.
“Oh, the Queen hates me,” Meat Loaf told The Guardian. Writer Tim Dowling cheekily noted that, “with hindsight,” the musician’s take-down of Andrew may have been “the point which it all started to go wrong for the royal family.”
It may have been when things started to go downhill for Andrew in particular. Before his marriage, Andrew had developed a reputation as “randy Andy.” Like second sons of British monarchs, he had no clearly defined role as future king, which supposedly gave him license to act like a “wastrel,” do his share of partying and date his share of actresses, models and other pretty young women, The Guardian reported in 2019.
One of Andrew’s early serious girlfriends, American actress Koo Stark, had a brief, uncredited role as a bridesmaid in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the 1975 cult musical comedy that also featured Meat Loaf, who played Eddie.
After Andrew’s stint as a navy helicopter pilot in the 1982 Falklands war, he was briefly known as the “Warrior prince” and a genuine heartthrob, The Guardian reported. After their wedding, he and Sarah also enjoyed a brief honeymoon in terms of popularity with the British public. That would have been around the time they encountered Meat Loaf on “It’s a Royal Knockout.”
Andrew and Sarah’s marriage wasn’t happy, even though they have remained close friends. They separated in 1992, the same year that Charles and Diana split.
Like Meat Loaf, others who have encountered Andrew over the years picked up on the fact that he could be arrogant and self-indulgent. These are the same qualities that may have contributed to his ill-fated friendship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, and the trouble he’s in now, facing a civil trial over allegations that he had sex with one of Epstein’s sex trafficking victims and losing his HRH title and military titles.
As royal biographer Catherine Mayer told The Guardian: “(Andrew) very quickly went from being a sort of bachelor prince to being somebody who has no use, no purpose, spends money too obviously, takes too many flights, gets his bad nickname, gets married, gets divorced. He went from being the golden prince to being the embarrassing uncle in a series of very inevitable steps. And that was before he became as embarrassing as he is now.”
Remembering Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson
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ST. LOUIS — The entertainment world is mourning the loss of two legends. Rock superstar Meat Loaf and actor-comedian Louie Anderson both passed away this week.
They were two very different entertainers that spent some time in the Gateway City over the years.
“We put together the Louie Anderson and Rosanne Barr tour, and we did 30 shows and became really close friends with Louie,” said producer Robin Tate.
From concerts to comedy specials taped in downtown St. Louis, like Louie Anderson’s 1992 performance at the former American Theatre, Tate remembers the show fondly.
“We did ‘Louie in St. Louie,’ and because of our relationship with him, he wanted to do it at the American Theatre, which we were running at the time,” said Tate. “It was a great special, sold out and people loved it. And if you go back and look at his specials. At the end, he always said something loving and caring to the audience.”
Also, one to care deeply for his audience, Meat Loaf, the Grammy-winning rock singer whose name is backstage at the Fabulous Fox Theatre.
“He played the Fox,” said Steve Litman of Steve Litman Presents and executive producer for Concerts Fabulous Fox Theatre. “I actually booked him at the Fox three times in 1993, 1999, and 2003 was the last time. He always did an incredible show.”
An upcoming concert will feature Meat Loaf’s band carrying on his hit songs with former season 13 American Idol winner Caleb Johnson.
“We have a show coming up that’s actually been booked for quite a while with the Neverland Express which is Meat Loaf’s band and Caleb Johnson singing Meat Loaf’s role,” said Litman. “He’s going to do all the classic Meatloaf songs. So now everybody is excited and wants to pay tribute to the work the man did.”
Both Litman and Tate saw firsthand the talent of Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson throughout the years.
“It was great and we’re going to miss him,” said Litman.
Like any loss with anyone passing away this is really tough because he was just the kindest guy in the world,” said Tate describing his friend Louie Anderson. “He would give you the shirt off his back.”