Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell Singer Has Died At The Age of 74

R.I.P.

The musician died at home with his family by his side, his agent confirmed, but no cause of death was shared.

 

 

Meat Loaf’s 1977 debut album Bat Out of Hell is one of the biggest-selling albums in history.

 

 

Meat Loaf’s 1993 album Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell produced the global hit single I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That). 

 

 

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He completed with Bat Out of Hell trilogy with The Monster Is Loose in 2006. The three albums have sold more than 65m copies worldwide.

 

 

Meat Loaf also had a breakout role in the 1975 film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show playing Eddie, a feral and ill-fated delivery boy who sings the song Hot Patootie. He also starred in more than 50 films and TV shows, among them Fight Club, Wayne’s World and Spiceworld the Movie. In 2021, he signed a deal to develop a relationship competition series titled I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That).