The world has lost an amazing talent. Michael Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, passed away on Thursday night 20 January 2022 at the age of 74.
A statement on his official Facebook page reads:
Herewith a list of his achievements (Wikipedia).
Discography
Main article: Meat Loaf discography
- Bat Out of Hell (1977)
- Dead Ringer (1981)
- Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983)
- Bad Attitude (1984)
- Blind Before I Stop (1986)
- Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell (1993)
- Welcome to the Neighbourhood (1995)
- Couldn’t Have Said It Better (2003)
- Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006)
- Hang Cool Teddy Bear (2010)
- Hell in a Handbasket (2011)
- Braver Than We Are (2016)
Tours
- Bat Out of Hell Tour (1977–1978)
- Dead Ringer Tour (1981)
- In Europe ’82 (1982)
- World Tour ’83 (1983)
- Bad Attitude World Tour (1984–1985)
- 20/20 World Tour (1987)
- Lost Boys and Golden Girls / Bat Out of Hell 10th Anniversary World Tour (1988)
- World Tour ’89 (1989)
- World Tour ’90 (1990)
- Off Tour (1991–1992)
- Bat Out of Hell II Tour (1993)
- Everything Louder Tour (1994)
- Born to Rock World Tour (1996)
- German Festival Tour (1997)
- The Very Best of World Tour (1999)
- The Storytellers Tour (1999–2000)
- Night of the Proms (2001)
- Just Having Fun Summer Tour (2002)
- Just Having Fun Winter Tour (2002–2003)
- The Last World Tour (2003–2004)
- Hair of the Dog Tour (2005–2006)
- Bases Are Loaded Tour (2006)
- Seize the Night Tour / Three Bats Live Tour (2007)
- The Casa de Carne Tour (2008)
- Hang Cool Tour (2010–2011)
- Guilty Pleasure Tour (2011)
- Mad Mad World Tour (2012)
- Last at Bat Farewell Tour (2013)
- Rocktellz & Cocktails (2013–2014)
- In Concert Tour (2015–2016)
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1962 | State Fair | Boy In Stands | Uncredited |
1975 | The Rocky Horror Picture Show | Eddie | |
1979 | Americathon | Roy Budnitz | |
1979 | Scavenger Hunt | Scum | |
1980 | Roadie | Travis W. Redfish | |
1981 | Dead Ringer | Meat Loaf / Marvin | |
1986 | Out of Bounds | Gil | |
1986 | The Squeeze | Titus | |
1991 | Motorama | Vern | |
1992 | Wayne’s World | “Tiny” | |
1992 | The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag | Lawrence | |
1992 | Leap of Faith | Hoover | |
1995 | To Catch a Yeti | Jake “Big Jake” Grizzly | TV Movie |
1997 | Spiceworld: The Movie | Dennis | |
1998 | Gunshy | Lew Collins | |
1998 | Black Dog | “Red” | |
1998 | The Mighty | Iggy Lee | |
1998 | Outside Ozona | Floyd Bibbs | |
1999 | Crazy in Alabama | Sheriff John Doggett | |
1999 | Fight Club | Robert “Bob” Paulsen | |
1999 | The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man (hu) | ||
2000 | Blacktop | Jack | TV Movie |
2001 | The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Amos “Rattlesnake Jake” Frogge | TV Movie |
2001 | Face to Face | Driver | |
2001 | Rustin (drama directed by Rick Johnson) | Coach Trellingsby | |
2001 | Trapped | Jim Hankins | TV Movie |
2001 | Focus | Fred | |
2001 | The 51st State | “The Lizard” | |
2001 | Polish Spaghetti | Food Critic | |
2002 | The Salton Sea | Bo | |
2002 | Wishcraft | Detective “Sparky” Shaw | |
2003 | Learning Curves | Timmons | |
2004 | A Hole in One | Billy | |
2005 | Extreme Dating | Marshall Jackson | |
2005 | Chasing Ghosts | Richard Valbruno | |
2005 | Crazylove | John | |
2005 | BloodRayne | Leonid | |
2006 | The Pleasure Drivers | Dale | |
2006 | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | Bud Black | Uncredited |
2007 | Urban Decay | Rick “Zero” | |
2007 | History Rocks | Himself | |
2008 | Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise | Himself | |
2009 | Tiger Force Forever: Unleashed | ||
2009 | Citizen Jane | Detective Jack Morris | TV Movie |
2010 | Burning Bright | Howie | Uncredited |
2010 | Beautiful Boy | Motel Manager | |
2010 | Polish Bar | Joe | |
2011 | Absolute Killers | Dan | |
2013 | The Moment | Sergeant Goodman | |
2013 | All American Christmas Carol | Ross | [136] |
2014 | Stage Fright | Roger McCall | |
2014 | Wishin’ and ‘Hopin’ | Monsignor Muldoon |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1978 | Saturday Night Live | Musical Guest | Guest host Christopher Lee 03/25/78 |
1981 | Saturday Night Live | Musical Guest | Guest host Tim Curry 12/05/81 |
1981 | Strike Force | Adams Family In 1971 | Episode: “MIA” |
1985 | The Equalizer | Sugar Fly Simon | Episode: “Bump and Run” |
1987 | The Grand Knockout Tournament | Himself | Television special |
1988 | Monsters | Episode: “Where’s the Rest of Me?” | |
1992 | Tales from the Crypt | Mr. Chumley | Episode: “What’s Cookin’?” |
1997 | The Dead Man’s Gun | Episode: “The Mail Order Bride” | |
1997 | Nash Bridges | Episode: “Wild Card” | |
1998 | South Park | Himself | Episode: “Chef Aid“ |
2000 | The Outer Limits | CSA Colonel Angus Devine | Episode: “Gettysburg“ |
2006 | Masters of Horror | Jake Feldman | Episode: “Pelts“ |
2007 | Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve | ||
2007 | Private Sessions | ||
2007 | Go-Phone Commercial | Singing Father | |
2008 | The F Word | Himself | |
2009 | Hannity | Himself | Panel member |
2009 | Tiger Force Forever: Unleashed | ||
2009 | Masters of Horror | Jake | Episode: “Pelts” |
2009 | House | Eddie | Episode: “Simple Explanation“ |
2009 | Bookaboo | ||
2009 | Don’t Forget the Lyrics | Himself | He won $500,000 for The Painted Turtle |
2009 | Ghost Hunters | Himself | Episode: “Bat Out of Hell” |
2009 | Monk | Reverend Hadley Jorgensen | Episode: “Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse” |
2010 | Popstar to Operastar | Himself | Judge |
2010 | Spicks and Specks | Himself | |
2010 | WWE Raw | Himself | |
2010 | Glee | Barry Jeffries | Episode: “The Rocky Horror Glee Show“ |
2010 | Ghost Hunters | Himself | Episode: “Sloss Furnaces” |
2010 | This Week | Himself | |
2011 | The Celebrity Apprentice | Himself | |
2012 | Fairly Legal | Charlie DeKay[137] | Episode: “Kiss Me, Kate” |
2017 | Elementary | Herman Wolf | Episode: “The Ballad of Lady Frances” |
2017 | Ghost Wars | Doug Rennie | Main cast |
Books
- Meat Loaf (1999). To Hell and Back: An Autobiography. ReganBooks. ISBN 0-06-039293-2.