News about Meat Loaf

Tina Arena's performance with Katy Perry the AFL Grand Final left many Australians fuming, but it wasn't just her vocal talents that they took issue with. Her 'blink and you'll miss it' performance in front of 100,000 AFL fans was savagely compared to Meat Loaf 's disastrous 2011 AFL Grand Final headlining set. But Aussies' anger was also down to the fact that Tina - a vocal disapprover of Victoria's past stringent Covid-19 lockdown rules - had been signed up for the gig.

When 67-year-old Peter Young was interviewed by his local BBC news station, he was excited to see himself on the TV. However, little did he know that the conversation would change his life. Peter, from Blackpool, is a professional tribute artist for the late American rockstar Meat Loaf. For the past two decades, he has made a living dressing up and performing the singer's hits such as I'd Do Anything for Love. So, when Meat Loaf - real name Michael Lee Aday - died in January 2021, BBC Look North reached out to Peter to get his reaction. 'I was honoured to be asked,' says Peter. 'I did the interview by Zoom and then nothing else about it. But, later that day, when I watched myself on TV, I saw a pronounced gap on the bottom row of my teeth that I hadn't noticed before.'

A Welsh train conductor who used to be a heavy metal band frontman has become a cult hero for singing songs and making the tannoy announcements more musical. Chris Edwards' (pictured left, and right as the lead singer of a heavy metal Christian band) performances have become legendary among regular passengers on routes in Wales, the West Country and other parts of England.  The 61-year-old, from Newport, used to front a Christian heavy metal band but now loves putting smiles on passengers' faces and helps total strangers become friends. The list of tunes he sings his announcements to has now reached 220, with his favourites including Queen's We Are The Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody, Tom Jones ' Delilah, Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and Candle in the Wind by Elton John. But as he heads towards retirement, the Welshman said he often receives requests for songs by more modern artists he's unfamiliar with.

Six security guards, each with a dog, guarded the Victorian-built, former infirmary where we shot the video for Total Eclipse Of The Heart. You couldn't imagine a scarier place. It is said that dogs have a sixth sense and those six animals wouldn't go anywhere near the morgue or the room where doctors used to administer electric shocks to patients. This rambling building near Virginia Water in Surrey was called Holloway Sanatorium. It was a former hospital for the mentally-ill and its vast echoing emptiness struck terror into all of us. But it did suit the mood of the song - and the extravagant imagination of the great Jim Steinman, dubbed the Lord of Excess, who directed the video and wrote Total Eclipse Of The Heart.

He was likened to rock sensation Meat Loaf and had to be told who the men's tennis world number one was after shaking his hand. Lance Davis, a beekeeper, has made an internet sensation out of saving Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev at the Indian Wells tournament in the United States, and it's no wonder. When more than 2,500 bees descended on court just ten minutes into their quarter final in California, Alcaraz and Zverev fled for cover. Fans of the game were alerted that the 'bee invasion' had stopped the match, which was described as a first for the sport.

Frank Farian, the legendary German music producer, died at the age of 82, according to his representatives. Farian is best known for his boney M in the 1970s, where he was primarily responsible for hits including Daddy Cool, Rasputin, and Brown Girl in the Ring. In his home in Miami, Farian, a native of Kirin in rural southwestern Germany, died.

Bonnie Tyler recalled how Meat Loaf was furious that she'd be able to perform her new trademark, Total Eclipse of the Heart. The 1983 album debuted in the United Kingdom and the United States, becoming the fifth best-selling song of the year. Meat Loaf wanted the song for himself, but Jim Steinman, who was remorsible for his 1977 hit Bat Out Of Hell, wanted the song for himself.

Gillon McLachlan, the AFL's outgoing chief executive, has scathingly sluggishly mocked Meat Loaf's AFL grand final appearance more than a decade after the US rocker famously butchered his AFL grand final results. While speaking at The Carbine Club Grand Final Luncheon at Crown, McLachlan said that Meat Loaf is one of his greatest blessings. In 2011, the AFL paid $500,000 to Meat Loaf for the Geelong-Collingwood Grand Final, which is widely regarded as the worst entertainment at the year's biggest game.

Hipgnosis Songs Fund, a music catalogs investor, will sell some catalogues to a joint venture between its investment advisor and funds advised by Blackstone for $465 million, or around £372 million, as it seeks to buyback shares and raise its share price. The London-listed fund announced today that it includes 29 music catalogs and a collection of non-core songs. Hipgnosis Songs Fund's shares soared more than 5 percent in early trading but it has since increased 1.4 percent or 1.30p to 94.30p.

RHM, a record player with more than 150,000 songs, has announced a collaboration with Nashville-based Concord. Josh Gruss, a former Bear Stearns investment banker who also worked in music, created RHM. Gruss' interest in the business is expected to be about £24 million. RHM's chief executive, Bob Valentine, said the company had a'strong portfolio of music rights that brought in sales from a variety of income streams.'

According to The Daily Star, Dale Harvey (pictured left) and a group of friends went to Benidorm for a stag do and hoped to turn into the famous boozer, The Red Lion. Dale and his fiancée Holly Booth are on a trip to visit every single pub in the United Kingdom. However, the man who covers every pub on Facebook was lost for words when it came to writing a post about Sticky Vicky's boozer. In a Facebook post, he posted a collection of photos of the evening and wrote, "I would do a review for The Red Lion in Benidorm." "I did not see things that no man should have to see last night." Pictured left, Maria with her mother, the original act, now performs under the name Sticky Vicky

ITV has canceled talent show Starstruck after just two series in a major shake up.

Round Hill Music selects the winners from a combination of expertise, gut feeling, and financial grit, which can be enjoyed for years to come. The company's profits come from royalties, payments made every time a song is performed, recorded, or used in any way, from the background hum in a shopping center to the centerpiece of a West End musical.

During her long career in the entertainment industry, Wendy Harmer has dealt with 'lots and lots of celebrities.' And the former 2Day FM and ABC radio host, 67, has now admitted the worst guest she's ever interviewed. Wendy said that American rock singer Meat Loaf was the "most ***hole" she'd ever heard during an interview on The Matty Johns Podcast.

Amanda and Pearl Aday, Meat Loaf's daughters, took to Instagram this weekend to honor their father on the one-year anniversary of his death. The sisters revealed in an Instagram post that they had released Meat Loaf: A Celebration of Life in honor of the late singer and comedian, who died on January 20, 2022 at the age of 74.

As he rocked up to the MCG at 8.30 on Saturday morning, a tenacious footy fan made sure he didn't have to wait for long to get a meat pie. Thousands of spectators followed him. After the year's biggest game to Melbourne went interstate for two years due to Covid restrictions, a Twitter user tmmisson shared the snapshot and explained why he arrived early to celebrate the year's biggest game.

The grand final week staple returned to Melbourne after a two-year absence due to Covid, and angry fans who were unable to get up close and personal with their heroes. Large crowds descended on the banks of the Yarra, but the experiment was dubbed 'the biggest fizzer ever' by diehard supporters who were dissatisfied.

Many Australians regard John Farnham as the best male vocalist the country has ever produced. Many British and American music enthusiasts are now discovering Whispering Jack for the first time thanks to YouTube and social media. Thousands of videos of vocal coaches and YouTubers reacting to Farnsey's voice have gone viral over the past 12 months.