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The Very Best of Meat Loaf is a 1998 album spanning the first 21 years of Meat Loaf's recording career. Although not reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom, it was certified double platinum there in 2013. The album features many of Meat Loaf's best-known songs as well as a few from his lesser known albums of the 1980s.
American singer and actor Meat Loaf (1947–2022) released twelve studio albums, five live albums, seven compilation albums, one extended play and thirty-nine singles. In a career that spanned six decades, he sold over 100 million records worldwide.
"Read 'Em and Weep" did not become a hit until late 1983, when a slightly rewritten version was recorded by Barry Manilow as one of three new tracks on his compilation album Greatest Hits, Vol. II. This version featured new lyrics for the second half of the song's second verse, as well as slight changes in the first verse and final chorus.
When powerhouse vocalist-actor Meat Loaf eulogized composer-producer Jim Steinman last April in Rolling Stone, the singer – who died Thursday at age 74 – said of his “Bat Out of Hell ...
Meat Loaf promoted the single with American singer Patti Russo. The power ballad [3] was a commercial success, reaching number one in 28 countries. [2] The single was certified platinum in the United States and became Meat Loaf's first and only number-one and top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box Top 100.
Marvin Lee Aday was born in Dallas, Texas, on September 27, 1947, [8] [9] the son of Wilma Artie (née Hukel), a schoolteacher and member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel music quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a former police officer who went into business selling a homemade cough remedy with his wife and a friend under the name of the Griffin Grocery Company. [10]
Bat Out of Hell is the debut studio album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman.The album was developed from the musical Neverland.Neverland is a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974.
2 Lyrics and double entendre. 3 References. ... In 2014, Salon rated "It Ain't the Meat" as one of the 19 greatest double entendre songs of all time. [17] References