"That's what they said to me when we started doing it out in L.A., but I looked at them and go, 'Why would you want an Elvis impersonation? Why wouldn't you want Eddie to be his own human being?' They go, 'Well, OK,' and that's what Elvis talked to me about. "He came to see Rocky Horror, and everyone else who had played Eddie over in England had tried to do an Elvis impersonation," Meat Loaf told Fuse. And we'd go, 'Oh! Keith Moon's here!'" One of his most memorable encounters was with the artist his Eddie character was based on: Elvis Presley. "If Keith Moon was in the house that particular night," Meat Loaf said, "there was nine people in the cast - there would be nine bottles of champagne lined up across the front of the stage. "At the end, she started to dress like Magenta," Meat Loaf later said. Even before its adaptation into a movie, the show was wildly successful, drawing stars like Carole King, who saw it multiple times. In 1973, Meat Loaf was cast in the Roxy Theatre's production of The Rocky Horror Show, playing the parts of motorcycle-riding Eddie and Dr. "Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul": Meat Loaf in The Rocky Horror Show Read More: Meat Loaf – Stage Name Origins Adding insult to injury, an early TV ad for Levi's jeans noted that "Poor fat Marvin can't wear Levi's." The kids quit calling him Marvin, and the nickname Meat Loaf had long since stuck, but he still went before a judge in 1984 to legally change his name to Michael. His father, a police officer, had allegedly taken one look at his son and said: “He looks like meat.” Then, as a child, he was persistently bullied for his weight, and he frequently wore pleated pants to school because, as he recalled in 2017, he couldn't fit into jeans. The below list of Our 13 Favorite Meat Loaf Stories includes some of the singer's best musical moments, noteworthy film appearances and how he wound up with that famous name.īorn Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, the nickname "Meat" was bestowed on him "on the fourth day of me being alive,” Meat Loaf told Rolling Stone. And nothing, nothing has ever put me down." Once I was hit in the head with a pool cue and just turned to the guy and said, ‘You just made a big mistake.’ Got hit in the head with a whiskey bottle. “From how I grew up, that’s where I learned to be tough and to never stop," Meat Loaf told Rolling Stonein 2018. "I mean, I’m tough as nails.
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