Great artist of the yesteryears. Took rock to a new level ... There are some interesting things that I learnt about him many years ago.

1. He called himself meat loaf because other kids teased him while he was a child by using this name. I guess this was his way of sayin "Meat loaf just rocked you" :P

2. Rumor has it (and I saw it many years ago during an interview of his, so I could be wrong) that he went to jail for some crime and when he came out he started writing the way he did. This is in sync with the popularly held biography that can be found about him, i.e. drunk father who used to beat him up and so on. Whatever the cause of it .... it gave birth to the "Bat out of Hell" trilogy of albums ...

Here is Meat loaf - Bat out of hell