Loaf, Meat |
Born 27 September
1951 (Dallas, Texas, USA) |
Real name Marvin Lee Aday. Although born in
Texas - home of Houston, America's fattest city for the
third year running - Mr Loaf moved to the West Coast in the
1960s. After appearing in various musicals, including "Hair"
(and the movie of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", alongside
Patricia Quinn,
Richard O'Brien
and Jonathan
Adams), he performed vocals on a number of albums
before hitting the big time with "Bat Out Of Hell" in 1977.
His partnership with Jim Steinman soon deteriorated, along
with his career, and by the end of the 1980s he was
bankrupt. But by the mid-1990s they'd kissed and made up,
releasing the imaginatively titled "Bat Out Of Hell II:
Back Into Hell". In 2003 he collapsed on stage at Wembley
Arena, and subsequently underwent heart surgery after being
diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome (an illness in
which the patient thinks they are a law firm). |
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