Meat Loaf

:This article is about the singer. See meatloaf for the article about the meat dish.

Early life

Meat Loaf was the first child of Orvis Wesley Aday, a policeman, and Wilma Artie Hukel, a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet. Orvis was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time. Meat Loaf and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. Because of this, Meat Loaf often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod.

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Policeman - Alcoholic - Drinking binges

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Although there have been various explanations for his stage name, according to his official website, his name started when his father called him "Meat" as a two-year-old. His schoolmates would later turn it into Meat Loaf as it has the same initials as his real name, M.L. In high school, he was on the football team until his senior year when his coach made him decide between being in the school play, "Plain and Fancy" and being on the team. Meat Loaf chose the school play.

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Meat Loaf relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend and his friend's father, drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they decided to head to Market Hall which was on Kennedy's parade route. On the way they heard that he had been shot so they headed to Parkland Hospital where they saw Jackie Kennedy get out of the car and Governor John Connally get pulled out, but they never saw Kennedy taken out.

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Love Field - John F. Kennedy - Parkland Hospital - Jackie Kennedy - Governor - John Connally

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After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, Meat Loaf transferred to North Texas State University. While there he was called in for an Army physical which he tried to fail by gaining sixty-eight pounds in four and a half weeks. They determined that he was fit despite being color blind, having a trick shoulder and being very concussion prone (he's had seventeen of them). When his draft notice arrived two years later, he ignored it. In 1967, after seeing his mother wasting away in a hospital bed, Meat Loaf left Texas and moved to Los Angeles, where he became a bouncer at a teenage nightclub.

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Lubbock Christian College - North Texas State University - Army - Color blind - Concussion - Draft - 1967 - Los Angeles - Bouncer

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Shortly after Meat Loaf's mother died, his father, in a drunken rage, tried to kill him with a knife. He barely managed to escape after they had a huge knock down, drag out fight. After Meat Loaf got his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas, bought some food and stayed there for three and a half months, never leaving. Finally a friend found him and got him out of there. Eventually he bought a car with his inheritance and drove to California.

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