Vale to Meat Loaf (1947-2022) Growing up in the 1970s Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday) and Jim Steinman’s album Bat Out Of Hell was part of life. If they didn’t create the power ballad, they certainly perfected it. There was a bus trip where it played constantly. And it sounded subversive in a way that …

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Actor and singer Meat Loaf, actually Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday on September 27, 1947) celebrates his 63rd birthday today. Back in the 1970s there was a school bus trip to Canberra and Sydney. The sound track was a cassette of Meat Loaf’s ‘Bat Out Of Hell’. I can’t actually remember it not …

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