Singer Meat Loaf, real name Marvin Lee Aday, has died aged 74. Indispensable for his album “Bat Out of Hell”, he had chosen to evolve on stage under the name of Meat loaf, which literally means “meat loaf”.
An astonishing choice on which he had returned on several occasions, offering some variants to his speech. A nickname which would however draw its source from his childhood.
The singer had notably explained during an interview on the microphone of OWNTV that his father was at the origin of the term “meat”, the latter finding that his son, born “bright red”, looked like “nine and a half pounds of meat “.
He had also pointed out that his full stage name would always come, according to the principal concerned, from a sports coach in college. While at the time the young Marvin Lee Aday, rather chubby, had stepped on his foot, the teacher would have said to him “Get off my foot, piece of meatloaf”.
It was enough for this nickname to persist and for the artist to choose it as his stage name a few years later.
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