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Meat Loaf the singer
Ditch-Runner
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Meat loaf passed away at 74
RIP
I remember listing to his music of course cranked up loud on the stereo 😁
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RIP Meat Loaf. I enjoyed some of your music.
Damn, why do all these folks die around Christmas every year?
RIP Meat Loaf
RIP
I wonder if he can see paradise with or without the dashboard lights?
A good singer, but it looks like a lot of miles in 74 years.
Rip, aside from his music, he was quite interesting: Starred in a number of movies as well as TV programs.
RIP
He lived really hard when he was young, lots of drinking.
Yep.
Just read that Covid had a lot to do with his death.
He was Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Gonna miss your sandwiches. RIP
‘If I Die, I Die’: Meat Loaf Spurned COVID Rules Before Death
Jamie Ross
Fri, January 21, 2022, 3:24 AM
Theatrical rock superstar Meat Loaf, whose Bat Out of Hell is one of the bestselling albums of all time, has died at the age of 74. Reports say the singer and actor had recently fallen sick with COVID-19.
In an emotional statement posted to Facebook early Friday, the performer’s family said he was with his wife when he died and had said his final goodbyes to his two daughters in the past 24 hours. The star sold 100 million albums in his five-decade career and starred in movies including Fight Club, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Wayne’s World, and did a stint on Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice reality-TV show.
“We know how much he meant to so many of you and we truly appreciate all of the love and support as we move through this time of grief in losing such an inspiring artist and beautiful man,” the family wrote in its announcement. “From his heart to your souls… don’t ever stop rocking!”
No cause of death was confirmed, but TMZ reported that Meat Loaf—whose real name was Marvin Lee Aday—died after falling “seriously ill” with COVID-19 in recent weeks. According to the site, he canceled a business meeting this week for a planned reality show named after his hit “I’d Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That).”
Meat Loaf’s daughter Pearl Aday posted on Instagram on Jan. 7 ago that several of her friends and family had recently tested positive. “We are not sick, but we have too many friends and family testing positive right now, positive but doing ok,” she wrote. “Thank their respect for science that they’re all vaxxed, otherwise they’d be way worse.”
The singer’s vaccine status isn’t known, but TMZ reported that he had recently spoken out against planned vaccine mandates in Australia.
The Daily Beast reached out to his manager Michael Greene for comment on his cause of death.
Was it ever determined what the "that" was in his song "I'd do anything for love"?
My guess it was left up to the individual ( imagination 🤐 ) to decide where they would say no way .
"Now I'm prayin for the end of time to hurry up & arrive," after working so hard for it.
One of those lessons that must be learned on your own.
how many can relate to this one 😁
I know it sure brings back a lo of memories of back country roads and drive ins for me 😉
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Dam that’s bad news
As for the "relate" post, under the advice of my lawyer Ditch-Runner I refuse to answer. I really like many of his songs but I wish he just would have gotten into the music a little more!
R.I.P my man.
It was long ago and it was far away it was so much better than it is today.
Well two out of three ain't bad.
Played his music through the day as I putted around the house. Time to go to bed now since it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night.
For some reason, I cannot get "I'd do anything for love" out of my head. This has been going on for two days now!! I think ole Meat Loaf is haunting me!😲
RIP
Damn, They're Dropping All Around ...
by the dashboard light !
Excellent voice.