Meat Loaf
Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947) is an American musician and actor better known by his stage name Meat Loaf. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums, consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose. Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide. Almost 40 years after its release, it still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually, and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. He is also known for his powerful wide-ranging operatic voice and theatrical live performances.
After he enjoyed success with Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell and earned a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love", Meat Loaf experienced some initial difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. However, he has retained iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom where he received the 1994 Brit Award for Best selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts as of 2006. He ranked 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".
VH1: Storytellers (Meat Loaf)
VH1: Storytellers was a live concert tour by Meat Loaf which one concert was played on the channel VH1. Meat Loaf told humorous stories of his career as a singer and how he unfolded into rock stardom. The DVD version has two additional songs. Some songs on the CD are taken from Meat Loaf's Hard Rock Live performance (also for VH1). Others were taken from the pre-show soundcheck.
The show was to have been Meat and Jim Steinman together. However, due to Jim falling ill, Meat had to do the show alone. This worried the producers, as Storytellers is about the concept of each song that an artist wrote that they were about to perform, and Meat did not write his own songs. To counter this, according to the liner notes of the CD, Meat improvised several things, such as the actions on the Radio Broadcast portion of Paradise by the Dashboard Light. For the stories, he instead goes into detail about how the hit album Bat Out of Hell was conceived, with each song preceded by him discussing how the song fit into the making of the album and the difficulties that came into making, producing, and publishing the album. Meat also pitched a solution to how to get around the length of the songs: break up songs into two television segments, with stopping the song for a commercial, then finishing the song once they returned.
VH1 Storytellers
Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.
In each episode artists perform in front of a (mostly small and intimate) live audience, and tell stories about their music, writing experiences and memories, somewhat similar to MTV Unplugged. The show started in 1996 with a broadcast of Ray Davies, during his "Storyteller" tour, and took its name from this first show.
Over 80 episodes have aired, and many of the performances have subsequently been released on CD or DVD. "Best of" collections have also been released.
List of artists who have performed on VH1 Storytellers
Meat Loaf enjoyed the show so much that he bought the stage decorations from VH-1 and went on to do a "Storytellers" tour in 1998/1999.
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VH1 Storytellers (David Bowie album)
VH1 Storytellers is a live album by David Bowie. It was released on 6 July 2009 and features a 23 August 1999 performance on Storytellers, a VH1 program. The package contains an audio CD and a DVD of footage. The set list contains songs that spanned Bowie's career up until that point, from the 1960s until his then-soon to be released album 'Hours...' (1999).
Track listing
All tracks written by David Bowie except where noted.
CD & DVD
iTunes and DVD bonus performances
Personnel
VH1 Storytellers (Ringo Starr album)
VH1 Storytellers is a live album by Ringo Starr recorded and released for the popular music program in 1998. Unlike his previous live recordings, this release places Starr in an intimate environment where, as per the show's requirement, he tells the genesis of the songs being performed.
Recording
Recorded a month before the release of Starr's new studio album Vertical Man – and performed in promotion for it – VH1 Storytellers features Starr's contemporary musical collaborator Mark Hudson (who produced this set) and Starr's current band, dubbed "the Roundheads". Aside from songs that appeared on Vertical Man, much of the set is devoted to Starr's Beatles and early solo successes with Starr relating their stories in a relaxed, and sometimes humorous, fashion.
Release and reception
This marked the last time a Ringo Starr album was released on a pre-recorded cassette in the United States, according to journalist Peter Palmiere. However, some countries in the Far East still issue cassettes of recent Ringo Starr material including Ringo Rama, Choose Love and Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr.
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Meat Loaf
ALBUMS
- Milestones released: 2013
- Guilty Pleasure Tour: Live from Sydney, Australia released: 2012
- Hell in a Handbasket released: 2012
- Hang Cool Teddy Bear released: 2010
- Collections released: 2008
- Dead Ringer for Love: The Meat Loaf Collection released: 2008
- 3 Bats Live released: 2007
- Hit Collection released: 2007
- Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose released: 2006
- Rock 'n' Roll Hero released: 2004
- Bat Out of Hell: Live With the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra released: 2004
- Fallen Angel released: 2003
- The Collection released: 2003
- Couldn't Have Said It Better released: 2003
- Rock 'n' Roll Hero released: 2003
- Bad Attitude released: 2002
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad released: 2002
- Heaven Can Wait: The Best Of released: 2002
- Meat Loaf and Friends released: 2002
- Bat Out of Hell released: 2002
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth released: 2001
- Rock 'n' Roll Hero released: 2001
- Simply the Best released: 2000
- VH1 Storytellers released: 1999
- The Masters released: 1999
- Hits Out of Hell released: 1998
- The Very Best of Meat Loaf released: 1998
- Heaven Can Wait: The Best Ballads of Meat Loaf, Volume 1 released: 1996
- Best Ballads released: 1996
- Live Around the World released: 1996
- Definitive Collection released: 1995
- Welcome to the Neighbourhood released: 1995
- Live in Hell released: 1994
- Look Back Into Hell released: 1994
- Alive in Hell released: 1994
- The Collection released: 1994
- Back From Hell Again! released: 1994
- Meat Loaf and Friends released: 1993
- The Collection released: 1993
- Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf released: 1993
- Bad Attitude released: 1993
- Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell released: 1993
- Hot as Hell released: 1992
- Rock 'n' Roll Hero released: 1992
- The Very Best Of released: 1991
- Prime Cuts released: 1989
- Heaven & Hell released: 1989
- Live at Wembley released: 1987
- Blind Before I Stop released: 1986
- Midnight at the Lost and Found released: 1983
- Dead Ringer released: 1981
- Meat Loaf Featuring Stoney and Meatloaf released: 1978
- Live USA released:
- I’d Do Anything For Love Tour 1993 released:
- Best of Meat Loaf released:
- A Piece of the Action released:
- 2007-03-20: Seize the Night Tour: Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada released:
- To Hell and Back released:
- From Hell to Paradise (live in New York 1993) released:
Milestones
Released 2013- Bat Out of Hell
- You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- Dead Ringer for Love
- I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us
- Read 'Em and Weep
- Midnight at the Lost and Found
- Razor's Edge
- Rock 'N' Roll Mercenaries
- Special Girl
- Heaven Can Wait
- All Revved up with No Place to Go
- Is Nothing Sacred
Rock 'n' Roll Hero
Released 2004- Bad Attitude
- Sailor To A Siren
- One More Kiss (Night Of The Soft Parade)
- Jumpin' The Gun
- Special Girl
- Modern Girl
- Masculine
- Don't Leave Your Mark On Me
- Rock'n Roll Mercenaries
- Cheatin' In Your Dreams
- Blind Before I Stop
- Piece Of The Action
- Rock'n Roll Hero
- Paradise By The Dashboard Light (Live)
- Bat Out Of Hell (Live)
Heaven Can Wait: The Best Of
Released 2002- Bat Out of Hell (live)
- I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)
- Midnight at the Lost and Found (live)
- Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
- Heaven Can Wait (live)
- Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back
- All Revved Up (live)
- Everything Louder Than Everything Else
- A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
- Original Sin
- Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)
Meat Loaf and Friends
Released 2002- Dead Ringer for Love
- Holding Out for a Hero
- Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
- We Belong to the Night
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- Faster Than the Speed of Night
- Night Out
- Lost Boys and Golden Girls
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- What's the Matter Baby
- Bad for Good
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
Bat Out of Hell
Released 2002- Bat Out of Hell
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- Heaven Can Wait
- All Revved Up With No Place to Go
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- For Crying Out Loud
- Great Boleros of Fire (live intro) (live, 1978-09-01: Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY)
- Bat Out of Hell (live, 1978-09-01: Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY)
- Bat Out of Hell (5.1 mix)
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) (5.1 mix)
- Heaven Can Wait (5.1 mix)
- All Revved Up With No Place to Go (5.1 mix)
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (5.1 mix)
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light (5.1 mix)
- For Crying Out Loud (5.1 mix)
- Great Boleros of Fire (live intro) (live, 1978-09-01: Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY) (5.1 mix)
- Bat Out of Hell (live, 1978-09-01: Nassau Coliseum, Hempstead, Long Island, NY) (5.1 mix)
Rock 'n' Roll Hero
Released 2001- Bad Attitude
- Sailor to a Siren
- One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)
- Jumpin' the Gun
- Special Girl
- Modern Girl
- Masculine
- Don't Leave Your Mark on Me
- Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries
- Cheatin' in Your Dreams
- Blind Before I Stop
- Piece of the Action
- Rock 'n Roll Hero
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light (live)
- Bat Out of Hell (live)
VH1 Storytellers
Released 1999- All Revved Up With No Place to Go
- Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back
- Story: Written Just for You
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- Story: What I Won't Do
- I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That)
- Lawyers, Guns and Money
- Story: Working for Jim Steinman in New York
- More Than You Deserve
- Story: Peter Pan
- Heaven Can Wait
- Story: Paradise in the Office
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- Story: Performing on Television
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Story: Bat Out of Psycho
- Bat Out of Hell
- Is Nothing Sacred (new single version)
Best Ballads
Released 1996- I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
- I'd Lie for You
- Heaven Can Wait
- Not a Dry Eye in the House
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Read 'Em and Weep
- Surf's Up
- Everything Is Permitted
- More Than You Deserve
- Lost Boys and Golden Girls
- Man and a Woman
- Fallen Angel
- For Crying Out Loud
- Standing on the Outside
Live Around the World
Released 1996- Wasted Youth (Speech)
- Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)
- Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
- Midnight at the Lost and Found
- Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
- What You See Is What You Get
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Hot Patootie (Whatever Happened to Saturday Night)
- For Crying Out Loud
- Bat Out of Hell
Definitive Collection
Released 1995- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- Bat Out of Hell
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Heaven Can Wait
- Dead Ringer for Love
- Read 'em and Weep
- I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us
- More Than You Deserve
- Peel Out
- Everything Is Permitted
- Razor's Edge
- If You Really Want To
- Don't You Look at Me Like That
- Fallen Angel
- I Love You So I Told You a Lie
Welcome to the Neighbourhood
Released 1995- Where the Rubber Meets the Road
- I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)
- Original Sin
- 45 Seconds of Ecstasy
- Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)
- Fiesta de las Almas Perdidas
- Left in the Dark
- Not a Dry Eye in the House
- Amnesty Is Granted
- If This Is the Last Kiss (Let's Make It Last All Night)
- Martha
- Where Angels Sing
Meat Loaf and Friends
Released 1993- Paradise by the Dashboard Light
- Holding Out for a Hero
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- We Belong to the Night
- Bad for Good
- What's the Matter Baby
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Faster Than the Speed of Night
- Dead Ringer for Love
- Night Out
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Left in the Dark
Back From Hell! The Very Best of Meat Loaf
Released 1993- Bat Out of Hell
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
- Read ’Em and Weep
- Modern Girl
- Dead Ringer for Love
- Surf’s Up
- Heaven Can Wait
- I’m Gonna Love Her for Both of Us
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light (Paradise / Let Me Sleep on It / Praying for the End of Time)
- Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
- More Than You Deserve
- Rock ’n’ Roll Mercenaries
- Blind Before I Stop
- I Love You So I Told You a Lie
- Hot Patootie - Bless My Soul
Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell
Released 1993- I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
- Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back
- Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
- It Just Won't Quit
- Out of the Frying Pan (And Into the Fire)
- Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
- Wasted Youth
- Everything Louder Than Everything Else
- Good Girls Go to Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
- Back Into Hell
- Lost Boys and Golden Girls
Heaven & Hell
Released 1989- Dead Ringer for Love (Rock 'n Roll and Brew)
- Holding Out for a Hero
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth
- Faster Than the Speed of Night
- Have You Ever Seen the Rain
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Total Eclipse of the Heart
- Bat Out of Hell
- Straight From the Heart
- Read 'em and Weep
- Loving You's a Dirty Job
- Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries
- If You Were a Woman (and I Was a Man)
- Modern Girl
A Piece of the Action
- Piece of the Action
- Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries
- I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back
- Special Girl
- Heaven Can Wait
- All Revved Up With No Place to Go
- More Than You Deserve
- Everything Is Permitted
- For Crying Out Loud
- The Promised Land
- Bad Attitude
- Wolf at Your Door
- You Never Can Be Too Sure About the Girl
- Don't Leave Your Mark on Me
- One More Kiss (Night of the Soft Parade)
- I Love You So I Told You a Lie
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by Meat Loaf
VH1 Storytellers: Meat Loaf
by: Meat LoafWell, I went home with the waitress
You know the way I always do
Well how was I to know
She was with the Russians, too
I was gambling in Havana
You know I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns and money
Daddy, won't you get me out of this
I'm an innocent bystander
Somehow I got stuck
Between a rock and a hard place
And I'm down on my luck
Oh yea, I'm down on my luck
Oh yea, I'm down on my luck
Oh baby, I'm down on my luck
I'm so far down, I don't think I'll ever get up
If it weren't for bad luck
Oh if it weren't for bad luck
I wouldn't have no luck at all
Now I'm stranded in Honduras
I'm a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan
Send lawyers, guns and money
Send lawyers, guns and money
Get me out of this
Send lawyers, guns and money
You know the shit has hit the fan
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