The American artist also had participated in the musicals “The Rocky Horror Show” and “Hair”.
Le Monde with AFP
The American singer Meat Loaf, famous for his album Bat Out of Hell, died at the age of 74, according to a statement published, Friday, January 21, on its Facebook account . “It’s the broken heart that we announce that the incomparable Meat Loaf has gone tonight, his wife deborah and his daughters at his side”, explains the message.
Dedicated in the 1970s for its vocal and scenic qualities, Meat Loaf – whose stage name means “meat bread”, with reference to its imposing body -, has been a global success in 1977 with its album beat out of Hell (more than 43 million copies sold).
known to the cinema
Born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas (Texas) on September 27, 1947, he also made known to the cinema for his roles in the musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) or the Fight Club movie (1999) , from David Fincher.
It forms its first group of music, the Meat Loaf Soul, in Los Angeles. The group subsequently changes several times of solo guitarist, changing the name each time.
At the end of the 1970s, Meat Loaf travels the world by presenting a very nervous, original show in its somewhat theatalized form, which borrows from the nasty and square rock of the early days, at the Mime and the Shakespearian Theater. Not devoid of a fairly thin humor, this show, made up of long songs about desire, dreams and fantasies, is written by the composer and lyrics Jim Steinman.