Daughters Pearl and Amanda and close friends have been with him throughout the last 24 hours.
“I’m not built to be a celebrity,” he told Rolling Stone in 2006.
“I met Elvis and John Lennon, and I was an idiot, a complete moron.
I think of myself as a plumber.”
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Born in Dallas, Aday’s father was a police officer and salesman and his mother an English teacher.
He should be singing Wagnerian rock opera," as told toRolling Stonefive years later.
An established star, Todd Rundgren, produced the album, but at first it didn’t go anywhere.
“People at record companies hated it,” Meat Loaf wrote in his memoir.
“It’s like I have to be exorcised from these Steinman demons.”
“I was wondering, ‘What’s he going to belike?'”
Jerome Sable, who directed him in 2014’sStage Fright, toldEW.
“But… he is the most passionate human being I have ever met and worked with.
Once he gets into something, he goes all the way.”
In 2016, Meat Loaf released what ended up being his final album,Braver Than We Are.
It was his first collaboration with Steinman in more than 20 years.
(Steinman died in April 2021.)
Meat Loaf often spoke of his great joy of performing live and touring.
But even then, it seemed his best would perhaps never be enough for him.
And, if leaving me laying there is too morbid, remove me and then do those songs.’
