Photos: Remembering Meat Loaf, 1947-2022
A look back at the life and musical career of rock star Meat Loaf, who died Thursday at age 74.
Rock star Meat Loaf is seen with his daughter Pearl Aday, left, and Lisa Ronson, daughter of British rock star Mick Ronson, in a New York coffee shop, June 7, 1979. Meat Loaf had just pitched 13 scoreless innings of softball against a Broadway show league. (AP Photo)
Rock star Meat Loaf is shown with his arm around Blondie lead singer Deborah Harry at the party for the premiere of the movie "Roadie, June 12, 1980 in New York. (AP Photo/G. Paul Burnett)
Rock star Meat Loaf is shown with Spanish singer Charo at the American Music Awards, Jan. 18, 1980 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo)
Meat Loaf, who plays Travis W. Redfish, on "Roadie" is shown with his daughter Pearl and wife Leslie in this July 1980 photo. (AP Photo)
Rock star Meat Loaf, left, and tennis star John McEnroe are seen during a tennis star, rock and roll celebrity pro-am and jam session at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York, Aug. 27, 1982. (AP Photo/Carlos Rene Perez)
Rock stars Chubby Checker, left, and Meat Loaf are seen together at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, Jan. 26, 1987. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
Rock star Meat Loaf holds the Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Solo Performance at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, March 1, 1994, at New York's Radio City Music Hall. (AP Photo/Mike Albans)
FILE - Britain's Prince Charles, left, meets performers including singer Beyonce, center, and Meat Loaf following the 'Party in the Park' event in Hyde Park, London Sunday July 6, 2003. (Russell Boyce, Pool Photo via AP, File)
Rockstar Michael Aday, popularly known as Meat Loaf gestures during a press conference in Hong Kong,Monday, Sept.4, 2006. Meat Loaf is here to promote his latest album "Bat Out of Hell III-The Monster Is Loose". (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Finalist Katharine McPhee performs with Meat Loaf during the season finale of American Idol on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
*Meat Loaf performs "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" with Aspen Miller on the NBC "Today" television program in New York's Rockefeller Center, Friday Oct. 27, 2006. His new album "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose," is scheduled for release Oct. 31, 2006. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Rock star Meat Loaf appears on stage during the first concert of his tour through Germany in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Tuesday, June 12, 2007. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)
Meat Loaf performs at a concert in New York's Madison Square Garden, Wednesday, July 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Andy Kropa)
FILE - Singer Michael Lee Aday, who goes by the stage name Meat Loaf, arrives at the MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honoring Neil Diamond on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, in Los Angeles. Meat Loaf, whose "Bat Out Of Hell" album is one of the all time bestsellers, has died, family said on Facebook, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
U.S. Singer Meat Loaf performs during the German game show "Wetten Dass" (Bet it...?) in the southern German town of Friedrichshafen, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, pool)
Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sings "God Bless America" with Meat Loaf as he campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Meat Loaf, left, and Constantine Maroulis perform together at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Thursday June 14, 2012 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision)
Singer Meat Loaf poses for photographers with his Hero award at the Q Awards in London, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)