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When news broke thatMeat Loaf had died at the age of 74, the stories started flooding social media.
The singer and performersoffstage life was just as bombastic and massive as the songs that made him so beloved.
People arent that stupid.
I lost a hundred dollars.
We had never heard the song, and the public wouldnt hear it for nearly two more years.
Another version is that his classmates called him that because of his size and his M.L.
Believe what you will.
Anyway, he tried to push me in the water.
He tried to push me in the moat.
So I turned around and I grabbed him and he goes, You cant touch me.
The singer didnt know who his passenger was until he saw Mansons face on television following the Tate-LaBianca murders.
I rolled off the bed just as he put that knife right in the mattress, Meat toldRolling Stone.
I fought for my life.
But I cant say anymore.
Ive been threatened, so Ive got to keep very quiet.
I didnt see the assassination, but I was at the hospital when he [JFK] got there.
And it was as if a bear had proposed to his mate.
Instead of a ring, a salmon.
Meat and Leslie were married until 2001.
My most treasured possession is my collection of rubber ducks, he toldMojomagazine in 2016.
I have around 100 of them.
Fans bring them to shows for me …
They sit on the top of my road case in the dressing room every show.
The tunes beat out Rachmaninovs Piano Concerto No.
Ive seen them, Ive been around them.
Some are just energy left behind, and some are intelligent.
Ive had conversations with them using a K2 meter, which lets them answer yes or no.
I chased one across the room once.
And when we were makingBat Out of HellI saw a blonde girl in a white dress.
Everybody went up and no one was there.
