On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the American singer. For the culinary dish, see Meatloaf. Meat Loaf, was an American meatloaf recipe singer and actor with a powerful, wide-ranging voice, famous for his theatrical live shows.

He is on the list of best-selling music artists. Meat Loaf appeared in over 50 films and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His father was an alcoholic who went on drinking binges for days at a time, which started when he was medically discharged from the U. Army during World War II after being wounded by fragments from a mortar shell.

When he was 16, on the day of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Meat Loaf had seen the President when he arrived at Dallas Love Field. In 1965, Meat Loaf graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having appeared in school stage productions such as Where’s Charley? In 1967, when Meat Loaf was 19 years old, his mother died from cancer and his father barely missed when trying to stab him with a knife, falsely accusing him of having girls in his bedroom.