Outandabout March 2022 Issue195
Welcome to March 2022 the Spring air has arrived and St Patrick's day will be celebrated again in Benidorm without restrictions. Tourism is already back to pre-covid numbers and the British holidaymakers who love Spain and the Costa Blanca are already on the beach and sunny terraces eating, drinking, and having lots of fun in the sun. The new Out and About magazine is right here to read and find out what's going on in the Costa Blanca region of Spain. Lifestyle and leisure articles and reviews are written by the people who know, business professionals, and members of the public living in Spain. There are also popular pages that include puzzles and horoscopes with a host of supporting businesses that supports the charity work that editor Carol Leavy has undertaken for many years in Spain.
Welcome to March 2022 the Spring air has arrived and St Patrick's day will be celebrated again in Benidorm without restrictions. Tourism is already back to pre-covid numbers and the British holidaymakers who love Spain and the Costa Blanca are already on the beach and sunny terraces eating, drinking, and having lots of fun in the sun. The new Out and About magazine is right here to read and find out what's going on in the Costa Blanca region of Spain. Lifestyle and leisure articles and reviews are written by the people who know, business professionals, and members of the public living in Spain. There are also popular pages that include puzzles and horoscopes with a host of supporting businesses that supports the charity work that editor Carol Leavy has undertaken for many years in Spain.
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58 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA CELEBRITY PROFILE<br />
Meat Loaf, the singer behind<br />
the 1977 Bat Out of Hell<br />
rock opera album, died January<br />
20, at the age of 74. It was stated<br />
complications from COVID-19.<br />
Born Marvin Lee Oday, Meat<br />
Loaf released numerous hit<br />
songs, including “Paradise by<br />
the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out<br />
of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do<br />
Anything for Love (But I Won’t<br />
Do That).” He famously played<br />
the role of Eddie opposite Tim<br />
Curry and Susan Sarandon in<br />
the 1975 rock musical comedy<br />
The Rocky Horror Picture<br />
Show.<br />
Meat Loaf married his<br />
current wife Deborah<br />
Gillespie in 2007 and the<br />
couple spent their time<br />
between L.A and Austin,<br />
Texas.<br />
Meatloaf had two daughters<br />
with his wife. Pearl Aday and<br />
Amanda Aday.<br />
Meat Loaf flew onto the<br />
music scene like a bat out of<br />
hell during the 1970s. Equal<br />
parts beast and beauty, he<br />
performed with a feral elegance<br />
and passionate theatricality<br />
that came to define his decadeslong<br />
career. Whether entering<br />
paradise by the dashboard light<br />
or declaring he’d do anything<br />
for love (but he won’t do<br />
“that”), Meat Loaf showed that<br />
music isn’t just something that<br />
you hear; it’s something you<br />
feel. And he certainly struck an<br />
emotional chord with listeners.<br />
1977’s Bat Out of Hell, the first<br />
instalment in the “Bat Out of<br />
Hell” trilogy, became the fifth<br />
best-selling album of all time.<br />
MEAT LOAF<br />
Also passionate about acting,<br />
Meat appeared in dozens<br />
of films since the 1970s. But<br />
behind the scenes his life was a<br />
screenwriter’s fever dream. At<br />
times the details are grimmer<br />
than fairy tale, and some details<br />
contain more tale than truth.<br />
Meat Loaf’s Father allegedly<br />
tried to murder him.<br />
The<br />
world<br />
has<br />
plenty<br />
of method actors, but Meat<br />
Loaf was a method singer. He<br />
insisted, “I can’t sing at all! It<br />
sounds terrible until I put the<br />
scene together.” Meat said,<br />
“On any record I’ve ever done,<br />
you’ve never heard Meat Loaf<br />
sing a song. They’ve all been<br />
characters.” From the sound of<br />
things, the singer spent most<br />
of his life pretending to be<br />
someone else.<br />
Meat did a lot of pretending<br />
in interviews, too. The singer<br />
claimed to be born in 1947 and<br />
1951. When pressed about the<br />
discrepancy, Meat explained,<br />
“I just wanted to maintain a<br />
constant lie.” Meat Loaf is<br />
either the world’s greatest<br />
fantasy football player or a lying<br />
liar.<br />
The singer explained, “I’ve<br />
fallen three stories” and<br />
had so many “near misses”<br />
and collisions that “I should<br />
have died.” He suffered 18<br />
concussions, survived eight car<br />
crashes, and had close calls on<br />
planes.<br />
These accounts might read<br />
more like tall tales and Meat has<br />
admitted to lying habitually<br />
during interviews. But he<br />
does have a documented<br />
history of onstage accidents<br />
and health troubles. Per<br />
Rolling Stone, in 2003, he<br />
underwent heart surgery<br />
after collapsing mid-concert.<br />
He was reportedly diagnosed<br />
with Wolff-Parkinson-White<br />
Syndrome, which creates “an<br />
extra electrical pathway in the<br />
heart.” In 2016, he collapsed on<br />
stage in Canada, and in 2019,<br />
he broke his collarbone after<br />
tripping and falling.<br />
Meat Loaf the showman<br />
claimed that after the JFK<br />
assassination he and his friends<br />
got pulled over by Secret Service<br />
agents who commandeered<br />
Meat’s car “to drive to the<br />
hospital.” He said he and his<br />
friends remained in the vehicle<br />
until President Kennedy’s body<br />
arrived two hours later.<br />
In the book Like a Bat Out of<br />
Hell, it was recalled Meat saying<br />
something different about the<br />
assassination. He and his friends<br />
drove to the hospital on their<br />
own, and someone with a badge