Friday 21 January 2022

Gone When The Morning Comes

Meat Loaf was not the novelty act that people are trying to say that he was. He had a good voice, and he knew what to do with it.

The point of popular music is to sell records by the shipload while packing venues to the roof; the clue is in the name. He did it. And he was a damn good singer with it. Is that what people dislike? Yes, and that says everything about them.

He was good actor, too. Credited even in the decidedly song-free Fight Club as Meat Loaf rather than as Michael Lee Aday, he truly inhabited the persona.

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  1. "No one would have dreamt of listening to him, apart from the public."

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    1. "Disguised as himself." Meat Loaf as Romain Gary. What a wide-ranging lot we are on here.

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