They were a famous, world-renowned manufacturer of jeans, and ran a series of commercials. Reportedly, this is also why he changed his name from Marvin to Michael, and why he started actively going by Meat Loaf. He has said that his biggest struggle early on was not being taken seriously. He actually took some time out of straight musical performances to dabble in acting. His first role was in a stage production of a musical, called Hair. His career up until this point had been teetering between music and acting.
When came around, Meat Loaf had a breakthrough. He was cast in the stage show, The Rocky Horror Show. This would come to be a massively successful show, spawning a movie, which Meat Loaf also appeared in. It was around this time that he started working on one of his most successful albums of all time: Bat Out of Hell. As of , Bat Out of Hell had sold over forty million copies worldwide. It had earned a firm ranking as one of the best selling albums in history.
It also was named the highest-selling Australian album ever. You can see the music video for the titular track below, taken from YouTube. Meat Loaf would go on to become a hugely successful artist. Nearly every profile of him out there notes the dozens of tales that he's told in order to explain the unusual moniker; ranging from the logical it originated from his high school football coach in relation to his girth , to the bit insane he allegedly allowed a Volkswagen Beetle to be pushed over his head on a dare, resulting in his friends calling him "meatloaf for brains".
It's tough to tell which is the absolute truth, or whether all the explanations have a grain of truth to them. As he noted in a interview , "Names and ages piss me off. So I just continually lie. One thing does stand out as the most probable factor for the nickname--Meat Loaf's considerably large size and issues with weight, which started at an early age. In fact, he has a particularly heartbreaking story about his struggles in that department.
My mother would take me to Sears, and they didn't make blue jeans that would fit me," he told CNN's Piers Morgan last year. And a commercial came on the air when I was about 5 or 6 years old, from Levis. And the commercial was 'Poor fat Marvin can't wear Levis. Meat Loaf explained that although he did have the nickname "Meat" at the time, some people still called him Marvin. The future entertainer was so traumatized by the experience that he decided to legally change his name to Michael as an adult.
And he said if it was today, I'd own the company. The multitalented artist, who started out musically in a band called "Meat Loaf Soul," went on to sell more than 43 million copies of his classic album Bat Out Of Hell alone.
As an actor, he's particularly revered for his role of Eddie in the iconic American stage and movie versions of The Rocky Horror Show and Rocky Horror Picture Show , as well as his notable appearance in 's Fight Club. He competed in 's Celebrity Apprentice to nearly the end of the series, ultimately bowing to finalists Marlee Matlin and John Rich, and has appeared on many other television shows including a memorable cameo on Glee.
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