Then Meat Loaf joined the Los Angeles production of the musical Hair. Their regional success led them to release a single, 'Once Upon a Time', backed with 'Hello'. As Floating Circus, they opened for the Who, the Fugs, the Stooges, MC5, Grateful Dead, and the Grease Band. The new names included Popcorn Blizzard and Floating Circus. The band then underwent several changes of lead guitarists, changing the name of the band each time. Later, the band was the opening act at Cal State Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal, and Janis Joplin. While performing their cover of the Howlin' Wolf song ' Smokestack Lightning', the smoke machine they used made too much smoke and the club had to be cleared out.

Meat Loaf Soul's first gig was in Huntington Beach in 1968 at the Cave, opening for Van Morrison's band Them and Question Mark and the Mysterians. He was immediately offered three recording contracts, all of which he turned down. In Los Angeles, Aday formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul, after a nickname coined by his football coach because of his weight. A short time later, he went to the airport and caught the next flight to Los Angeles. After he received his inheritance from his mother's death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months until a friend found him. After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, he transferred to North Texas State University (now the University of North Texas). In 1965, Aday graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having already started his acting career via school productions such as Where's Charley? and The Music Man.

Aday accompanied his mother in driving around all the bars in Dallas to look for his father, and often stayed with his grandmother. Army during World War II after being hit with shrapnel from a mortar. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time, which started when he was medically discharged from the U.S. Michael Lee Aday was born Marvin Lee Aday in Dallas, Texas on September 27, 1947, the only child of Wilma Artie ( nГ©e Hukel), a school teacher and member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a former police officer who went into business selling a homemade cough remedy with his wife and a friend under the name of the Griffin Grocery Company. 2.20 Future projects and Jim Steinman's death.2.15 Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose (2006).2.14 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (2004).2.13 Couldn't Have Said It Better (2003).2.12 Is Nothing Sacred? and The Very Best of Meat Loaf (1998).2.11 Welcome to the Neighborhood (1995).2.10 Virgin Records and Bat Out of Hell II (1993).2.8 Arista Records and Bad Attitude (1984).2.7 Midnight at the Lost and Found (1983).2.6 Bad for Good and Dead Ringer (1981).2.4 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974/75).His early stage work included dual roles in the original cast of The Rocky Horror Show, and he was also in the musical Hair, both on- and off-Broadway. His most notable film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Robert 'Bob' Paulson in Fight Club (1999). Sometimes credited as Meat Loaf Aday, he has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. He ranks 96th on VH1's '100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock'. The key to this success was his retention of iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where he received the 1994 Brit Award for best-selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts, as of 2006. This did not stop him from becoming one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. ДЄfter the commercial success of Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song ' I'd Do Anything for Love', Meat Loaf nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. More than four decades after its release, the first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy- Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose-has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide.

He is noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday, September 27, 1947), better known as Meat Loaf, is an American singer and actor.

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