Quote:The invites sent to Thomas Jefferson High School alumni Monday night say only that Michael Aday will receive one of the four Distinguished Alumni Awards being handed out at a March 6 ceremony on the Northwest Dallas campus. But in 1965, when he graduated, Michael was known by another name: Marvin Lee Aday. A few years later came the other, far more famous moniker: Meat Loaf. As in, the 43-million-and-counting-selling Bat Out of Hell, Rocky Horror Picture Show, “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” Fight Club, Roadie. That Meat Loaf, the guy who was the subject of a brand-new BBC documentary just weeks ago.
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Marvin Lee Aday -- Meat Loaf -- in the 1965 Thomas Jefferson High School year book:



For the first time in 50 years, Marvin or Michael or Meat — guess it all depends on how old you are, and whether you were a classmate — will return to TJ to collect his award and say a few words; it’s probably the closest we’ll ever get to a Meat Loaf commencement speech.

...“The years I was there we had the worst [expletive] football team in the world, and I thought I was a good football player,” he told an audience at the House of Blues in 2010. “I sucked. Good thing that I figured out what I was supposed to do, don’t ya think? But I’ll tell you what: Doing theater in New York and rock and roll and playing football, I’m not so sure it’s a safe thing to do. I’ve had 18 concussions, three knee surgeries, two shoulder [operations]. But you know what? I wouldn’t give it up for anything, because of fans like you.

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/50-years-later-meat-loafs-returning-to-thomas-jefferson-high-as-a-distinguished-alumnus.html/

(01-27-2015, 11:01 PM)Miguel Wrote: Do you think Haley and Casey could pull off a cover of this? There don't seem to be any credible covers on YouTube.