Saturday, January 12, 2008

Micheal Lee Aday or as we know him....Meatloaf








And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back



I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact



But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way



And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love



I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, ah, no I won't do that



And some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard



Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end






And some nights you're breathin' fire, and some nights you're carved in ice



Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again



And maybe I'm crazy, oh it's crazy and it's true



I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you



As long as the planets are turnin', as long as the stars are burnin'



As long as your dreams are comin' true, you'd better believe it



That I would do anything for love, and I'll be there 'til the final act






And I would do anything for love, and I'll take a vow and seal a pact



But I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight



And I would do anything for love, but I won't do-oo that, no I won't do-oo that



I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreamin' of but I just won't do that



I would do anything for love, anything you've been dreamin' of but I just won't do






And some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul



Some days I just pray to the god of sex and drums and rock 'n' roll



And maybe I'm lonely, that's all I'm qualified to be


There's just one and only, one and only promise I can keep



As long as the wheels are turnin', as long

But i'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life, no way
And i would do anything for love, oh i would do anything for love
I would do anything for loveBut i won't do that
No i won't do that
Will you raise me up, will you help me down?
Will you get me right out of this godforsaken town?
Will you make it all a little less cold?
I can do that! i can do that!
Will you hold me sacred? will you hold me tight?
Can you colorize my life, i'm so sick of black and white?
Can you make it all a little less old?
I can do that! oh oh, now i can do that!
Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands?
Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand?
Can you give me something i can take home?
I can do that! oh oh now, i can do that!
Will you cater to every fantasy i got?
Will ya hose me down with holy water, if i get too hot?
Will you take me places i've never known?
I can do that! oh oh now, i can do that!
After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on
I won't do that! no i won't do that!
I know the territory, i've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around
I won't do that! no i won't do that!
Anything for love, oh i would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but i won't do that, no i won't do that



Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 24th 1947), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American rock singer and actor of stage and screen . He is noted for his albums Bat out of Hell, II, and III and several famous songs from movies. The Neverland Express is the name of the band he fronts as its lead singer. In 2001, he changed his first name to Michael.


Aday was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas ,Texas the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer, and Wilma Artie (Hukel), a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking bringe for days at a time. Marvin and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Marvin often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod.
He relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love feild to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to pardland hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governer John Conelly get pulled out, though they never saw Kennedy taken out.
Marvin graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1965, having started his acting career in school productions of where's carley? and the music man.After attending college Marvin transferred to Nprth texas high school . While there he was called in for an army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being colour blind having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he has had seventeen of them from allowing a Volkswagen to roll over his head on a dare, which garnered him the nickname Meat Loaf, when a friend who was present remarked afterward that he must have "meatloaf for brains".) . When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967 after seeing his mother hospitalized and her health deteriorating, Marvin stole his dad's credit card and moved to L.A where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub.
In his autobiography, Marvin claims that shortly after his mother died, his father, in a drunken rage, tried to kill him with a knife, and that he barely managed to escape after they had a bad fight. After Marvin got his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. Eventually a friend found him. Marvin bought a car with his inheritance and drove to California.


Despite setbacks (including bankrupcy, on more than one occasion), Meat Loaf is notable for the success of his music career, spawning some of the largest-selling albums of all time, and breaking several records for chart duration. Bat out of Hell, the debut album which had been four years in the making, has sold over 37 million copies. After almost 30 years, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over 9 years. Each of the seven tracks on the album eventually charted as a single hit.
Although he enjoyed success with Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell, Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within his native United States; however, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe especially the UK, where he ranks 23rd for number of weeks overall spent on the charts, and is one of only two artists with an album never to have left the music chsrts. With the help of his New York collection of musicians John Golden, Richard Raskin and Paul Jacobs his European tours enjoyed immense popularity in the 80's. In Germany Meat Loaf became notably popular following the release of Bat out of Hell II but has enjoyed most of his success among pop/rock fans. He ranked 96th on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'.
Meat Loaf has also appeared in over 50 movies or television shows sometimes even as himself, or as characters resembling his onstage personality, such as his memorable role as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He appeared in the acclaimed feature film Fight Club, as Robert "Bob" Paulson; he is credited for this role as "Meat Loaf Aday".
In 2007 Meat Loaf granted filmmaker Bruce David Klein exclusive access for the making of Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise, an independent theatrical documentary film that captures the legendary rocker and his life in rehearsals and on the road during his 2007 World Tour. The film was an official selection of the Montreal World Film Festival in 2007.




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