Meat Loaf
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Meat Loaf: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 1981
THEY'VE ASKED me to make this as short as the Loaf in question is large – but there’s a painful amount to be said. The ...
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Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, May 1978
The erstwhile Marvin Lee Aday (with some contributions from collaborator Jim Steinman) talks about making Bat Out of Hell: the nature of his voice; working with Steinman; how they got their deal, and working with producer Todd Rundgren. He also talks about his theatrical background — Shakespeare, The Rocky Horror Show et al — and how he got his name; then he looks back at his early years in Popcorn Blizzard, performing in Hair, Stoney & Meat Loaf... and about his weight!
File format: mp3; file size: 71.1mb, interview length: 1h 14' 06" sound quality: ****
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages audio, Winter 2006
Mr. Loaf talks about his tricky relationship with Jim Steinman, collapsing onstage, acting vs. singing, his weight and... collecting teddy bears!
File format: mp3; file size: 30.9mb, interview length: 33' 42" sound quality: ****
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Meat Loaf: The Roxy, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 14 January 1978
Ingredients:Meat Loaf (around 250lbs) from Dallas, Texas; lead singer with Ted Nugent on platinum album Free For All; monster-singer Eddie with half a brain in ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 21 January 1978
GARAGE BANDS. Despite all their virtues, and even though groups like Yes and Uriah Heep are pretty convincing arguments against technology and heavy metal respectively, ...
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 4 February 1978
EXCESS AND incongruity seem to be the key factors at work here. An abundance of diverse stylistic elements piledriven and packed high into what must ...
Meat Loaf: Rock 'N' Roll In Gothic Panavision
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 April 1978
Meat Loaf are… "the best visionary, over-the-top hard rock band since Blue Oyster Cult," gasps Sandy Robertson ...
Meat Loaf: New Hope for the Heavier Man
Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 20 May 1978
CLIFF WHITE, who thought he had a weight problem, suddenly feels emaciated. Thanks to Slender? No way. Thanks to MEAT LOAF. Say it loud, I’m ...
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 8 September 1979
WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT MEAT LOAF AND UNDERSTANDING? QUIPS SANDY ROBERTSON ...
Blondie/Meatloaf: Meat To The Beat
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1980
AUSTIN, TX – Talk about incongruity. Here we are speeding down a Texas highway, sun blazing overhead. We're in a van, naturally – the only ...
Meat Loaf: Loaf Story, Or How To Sell Eight Million Albums When Nobody’s Looking
Profile and Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 17 September 1981
MEAT LOAF'S Bat Out Of Hell album was unquestionably one of the rock phenomena of the last decade. And, of course, success is wonderful... but ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, December 1981
MEAT 'ANYWHERE he wants to' Loaf is waxing rhapsodic once more. Who among us has not missed the grandiloquent sound of the corpuscles in his ...
Deep Purple, The Scorpions, Meat Loaf et al: Knebworth Fayre, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Sounds, 29 June 1985
THIS IS the second Dark Age. It's gotta be. Either that or it's a farmyard. Either that or it's a British festival. Oh oh, it's ...
Review by Mark Cooper, MOJO, November 1993
ACCORDING TO MOST rock histories the late '70s were defined by punk rock and the Sex Pistols. Commercially speaking, however, the awful truth is that ...
Meat Loaf: He should have been a talk-show host
Interview by Andrew Stafford, Time Off, 25 October 1995
AUTHOR'S NOTE: In late 1995 I interviewed Meat Loaf for a Brisbane street weekly, Time Off, on the release of his album Welcome To The Neighbourhood. It was an ...
I Ask The Questions: Meat Loaf
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Mail On Sunday, 1996
A DUSTY abandoned cinema in London. There are cobwebs and chandeliers. There is a large man on a balcony in a tuxedo and American tan ...
An Interview with Bruce Kulick
Interview by Joe Matera, Powerplay, 2002
Former KISS six-stringer Bruce Kulick needs no introduction. He is a well-respected musician, songwriter and guitarist in his own right. After his stint in one ...
Hello Goodbye: Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, June 2003
They met to create musical drama. After years of huge success, it ended in managerial rancour and paralysed vocal chords. ...
Is Meat Loaf Just A Great Big Ham?
Profile and Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 30 October 2004
INSIDE THE garage of Meat Loaf's California home there is a photograph of him lying comatose on stage surrounded by paramedics, part of a framed ...
Comment by Chris Smith, Texas Music, Summer 2005
"BITCH TITS." That's the first thing that comes to mind whenever we think of Meat Loaf anymore. ...
Audio transcript of interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages transcripts, Winter 2006
This is a transcript of Gavin's 2006 interview with the man mountain named "Meat". Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 25 August 2014
OFTEN, MUSICIANS doing multiple phone interviews from a hotel room or publicist's office will try to open the door with journalists by throwing out some ...
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