Although Meat Loaf enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and earned a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo for a track on the latter album, 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 Meat Loaf ranks 23rd for number of weeks overall spent on the charts. He ranked 96th on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'.
In 1967, Meat Loaf left Texas and moved to Los Angeles where he started working as a bouncer at a nightclub. It was in LA that Meat Loaf formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul. It was during the recording of their first song that Meat Loaf hit a note so high that he managed to blow a fuse on the recording monitor which immediately led to an offer of three separate recording contracts- which he turned down all of.
The band underwent several line-up changes on lead guitar, each time culminating in a new band name, including Floating Circus and Popcorn Blizard. After Floating Circus split, Meat Loaf took on several low-key jobs, one of which would inadvertently lead to his breakthrough in the media. While working as a parking lot attendant he had a chance meeting with a man who asked what Meat Loaf did when he wasn't on the lot. After mentioning that he was a singer in his spare time, the man suggested he should audition for the stage musical, Hair. The audition was a success and led to Meat Loaf starring in a six month run in Detroit.
Meat Loaf's role in Hair was the kickstart he needed, as the publicity generated led to an invite from Motown to record a duet album with Stoney Murphy. The album entitled Stoney and Meatloaf (deliberately shown as one word at this point) was completed mid-1971 and released in September the same year. To support the album release, the duo toured with Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers but Meat Loaf soon left after the pair's vocals were cut from the single ‘Who is the Leader Of People?' and replaced with Edwin Starr's voice.
After spending time seeking a record deal, Bat Out Of Hell was finally released in 1977. The album was a huge success and following an appearance on Saturday Night Live in 1978, Meat Loaf's status was on the up.
After waving goodbye to his prior drug addiction, Meat Loaf started working on his second album, Dead Ringer in 1980. The album was released the following year but its success was limited due the fact that the tour planned to support the album was cancelled because the group ran out of money advanced to them by the recording label.
The following albums releases, Bad Attitude (1984) and Blind Before I Stop (1986) failed to alight both consumer and critic's enthusiasms so Meat Loaf began to tour smaller venues to try and revive his career. Slowly he had established a faithful following and Meat Loaf's gigs grew to sell-out status by the late 1980s.
The success of touring reunited Meat Loaf and Steinman who began work on Bat Out Of Hell II which was released in 1993, 16 years after its prequel. The album was a huge hit and considered the ultimate comeback in the music world. Bat Out Of Hell II sold over 15 million copies and the single I'd Do Anything For You reached the number one spot in 28 countries.
In 1995, Meat Loaf released his seventh studio album, Welcome to the Neighborhood. The album went platinum in the United States and the UK. In 1998, Meat Loaf released The Very Best of Meat Loaf. Although not reaching the top ten in the UK, it recently went platinum, and was already platinum around the rest of the world just after its release. The album featured all of Meat Loaf's best-known songs, a few from his less popular albums from the 1980s, and three new songs. Meat Loaf continued to record albums throughout the 90s and most recently released Bat Out Of Hell III in 2006.
Meat Loaf recently released an album named "Hang Cool Teddy Bear". The first single from the album, "Los Angeloser", was released for download on 5 April with the album charting at number 4 in the official UK album chart on April 25, 2010. In an interview published May 11, 2010, Meat Loaf said there was a "pretty good chance" Hang Cool Teddy Bear would be his last studio album.
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