Hello lovelies on 21st January 2022 Heaven gained another angel in the irreplaceable form of a talented artist performer actor and a good human. Known as Meatloaf, born as Marvin Lee Aday, he later changed to his preference of Michael.
Everyone is influenced in a positive and or negative way. But it is how you deal with it and its consequences on yourself and others that’s important.
For me I have many heroes and influences in my life which has lead me to make some positive changes and learn from the poor decisions I made.
For me I never stop learning I’m certainly a student of life and learning, music and film has always been a source of comfort creativity knowledge and inspiration.
My parents and my siblings & family were my first influences along with David Bowie Marc Bolan Alice Cooper and the UK groups like Slade and others. I was a toddler or preschooler of the 1970s and music was what grabbed my attention as a hyperactive inquisitive curly haired child. My mother was a singer not professionally trained. But she had talent and sang at the request of her family and friends.
Mum always sang around the home music was and still is my background to life. We sadly don’t have any audio evidence of this but if I were to choose a singer she resembled it would be Connie Francis or Doris Day..
Coming from a English and Welsh Romani Gypsy family music creativity is in our culture. I was surrounded by creative people it is in our DNA. My family could play various instruments including the fiddle, piano accordion Castanets harmonica (we called a mouth organ) paper with a comb and even spoons.
But I digress, the influence Meat Loaf had on me is profound on multiple different levels. What I liked about Meatloaf was he always told a story even when he was standing on the stage.
Then came the MTV video era and videos like Dead Ringer, I Can Do Anything For Love.
But it was his resilience through adversity. His determination to succeed and the capacity to forgive his father. Who had one point tried to kill him with a knife after Meatloaf’s mother passing.
He continued on his path using the name Meatloaf. There seems to be several origins of how supposedly given due to his size as a baby.. Others mention it was due to a cruel comment by his sports coach. Regardless Michael Lee Aday took the name and made it his own. He owned the name Meatloaf ❤️