Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas. Coming from a background of gospel singers, he moved to Los Angeles in the late sixties and formed Meat Loaf Soul and Popcorn Blizzard. Supporting the likes of the Who, and Ted Nugent they enjoyed modest success. Not long after, Meat Loaf was cast in the West Coast production of Hair. During the shows tun,  he hooked up with Stoney, one of the shows cast members and recorded Stoney and Meat Loaf in 1971.

He appeared in the off-Broadway production of Rainbow, when he got a role in More Than You Deserve, a musical written by classically trained pianist and musical genius Jim Steinman. This followed with the role of Eddie in the 1976 Richard O'Brien musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show  as well as singing on Ted Nugent's album Free-for-All.  As fate would have it, Meat Loaf re-teamed with Steinman for the National Lampoon Road Show tour after which Steinman began composing his futuristic take on Peter Pan called Neverland. In fact, Steinman has said that every song he writes is for this musical - which sadly doesn't look like it will ever be finished.

While Neverland failed to materialise at this time, many of its songs became the basis for the 1977Meat Loaf smash Bat Out of Hell. The album was produced by Todd Rundgren and was unlike anything ever hear before mixing Wagnerian opera and Teenage angst and motorcycles. The album scored three Top 40 singles — Two Out of Three Ain't Bad, Paradise By the Dashboard Light, and You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth and was one of the 70's best-selling albums and it continues to pop up into the charts over 25 years later.

A sequel to the album called Renegade Angel was planned, but many of these songs ended up on Steinman's solo debut, Bad for Good which scored the top ten hit, Rock and Roll Dreams come Through. Meat Loaf released his own follow-up, Dead Ringer, also in 1981 and again written by Jim Steinman. Rumors surfaced that all was not well between Steinman and Meat Loaf when his 1983 album, Midnight at the Lost and Found failed to have any Steinman penned songs In reality there was no disagreement between the two, but legal issues and Meat Loaf's vocal problems kept them apart. 

Meat Loaf released Bad Attitude in 1984 and in 1986 Blind Before I Stop, but while achieving modest success, they no way reached the peaks that Bat out of Hell  achieved in the late seventies. Soon after, Meat Loaf declared bankruptcy and began physical and psychological rehabilitation to restore his tour damaged vocal chords.

After several years working at his acting, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman re-teamed in 1993 for the mega smash Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, which sold over five million copies and had a massive hit single with I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That). It also had two other Top 20 singles in Rock and Roll Dreams come Through and the Michael Bay directed Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are 

1995's Welcome to the Neighbourhood, only featured 2 Steinman tracks, and had a hit with the Diane Warren written, but extremely Steinmanesque I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth).

In between acting gigs in Spice World and The Fight Club, Meat Loaf released his double CD Greatest Hits package, which featured 3 new Steinman tracks, No Matter What and A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste, from the Steinman/Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Whistle Down the Wind and the UK hit Is Nothing Sacred.

In 2003, Meat Loaf returned to the charts with the album Couldn't have Said It Better. It featured the hit title track and Man of Steel. A world tour followed, but health issues due to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome caused some cancelled dates.

In February 2004, Meat Loaf hit Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for a series of sell-out concerts  being recorded for CD, DVD and Pay per View.

This has been billed as Meat Loaf's last world concert tour, but we can only hope that it is not his last.

Bat out of Hell III - The Monster is Loose was release on Halloween, 2006. It features songs by Steinman, but sadly he had no direct input into the project.