Meat Loaf

With the possible exception of Tiny Tim, Marvin Lee Aday, the man who became Meat Loaf, is probably the most unlikely rock star ever to grace the world’s stages. An overweight, stringy-haired eccentric with a flair for the theatrical, and with a leather-lunged bellow that could topple bricks, he spent the first few years of his musical career scraping the bottom of the charts as part of underrated soul-rock duo Stoney And Meatloaf. He then made a minor but memorable inroad into pop culture history with his turn as motorcycle maniac Eddie in both the 1974 Broadway production and the subsequent ’75 film of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Then two years later he suddenly and shockingly went supernova. Meat Loaf is 50 per cent responsible for 1977’s , one of the biggest-selling rock albums of all time – to date it has stacked