The sad news has come through in the past hour of the passing of Marvin Lee Aday, who you may know better as Meat Loaf. I’ve been a fan of his ever since he unleashed Bat Out Of Hell onto the world, and he has always been my ‘go to’ guy when things were getting on top of me and I needed to blast a few cobwebs away. As I do on these occasions, I’m sharing my own personal tribute to him and his music. Make sure your volume control is set to max to play these!

He was born inDallas, Texason September 27, 1947,the only child of Wilma Artie (néeHukel), a school teacher and member of the Vo-di-o-do Girlsgospelquartet, 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…