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NEW YORK -- “Stop Right There!” Three words of warning — and three words that Ellen Foley credits with launching her career in music.It was Foley who belted out the words to Meat Loaf about halfway through their eight-and-a-half minute duet “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” the epic seduction song on his mega-selling 1977 “Bat Out of Hell” album.Foley is now looking back on the singular experience of making the memorable song as she recalls Meat Loaf and a “beautiful, feisty, joyful friendship” that began in her early 20s. Meat Loaf, born Marvin Lee Aday, died on Thursday at 74.He was the most unlikely of rock superstars, Foley says.“I mean, that’s the wild thing,” she said in an interview Friday, when asked to explain the source of his fame. “Who would have thought that at the end of the '70s, this 300-pound-plus guy would be a star? But that’s what it was.
He was a character, you know, larger than life."But, she says, he came at the right time."People were ready for this. People were ready to come out of the laid-back Fleetwood Mac '70s. And he had an extraordinary voice.
I don’t know if he ever took a voice lesson — I think he came out pretty fully formed. First time I ever saw him walk into a rehearsal hall, he was Meat Loaf. He knew what he was.”It was in the '70s that Foley met Meat Loaf, when the two of them were driving around in a blue van, touring with a National Lampoon comedy show.
“We got very close,” she said. “You’re on the road, you’re feeling lonely and there are just people you gravitate to.”She describes him, as others have, as rather a man-child. “I'm not saying that derogatorily,” she noted.
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Meat Loaf’s family is opening up about their devastating loss days after the performer died from coronavirus last Thursday. He was 74 years old.
News of rock and roll singer Meat Loaf’s death at age 74 was a shock that caught many by surprise. As the Broadway performer and "Bat Out of Hell" crooner receives a much-deserved send-off from a who’s who of Hollywood and showbiz, one part of the late "Hair" star's life – his nickname Meat Loaf – seemingly remains obscure.
Rock superstar Meat Loaf died on Thursday at age 74, according to a family statement provided by longtime agent Michael Greene. The beloved musician is known for his "Bat Out of Hell" album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as "Paradise By the Dashboard Light," "Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad," and "I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)." A rep said on his Facebook page: "Our hearts are broken to announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf passed away tonight with his wife Deborah by his side. Daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours." No cause of death was given.
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Meat Loaf, the heavyweight rock superstar loved by millions for his Bat Out of Hell album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light”, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”, and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, has died. He was 74.