

However, she was picked to sing this Jim Steinman penned song with The Loaf for his album Bat Out Of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose. Raven's career appeared to be heading downward after a split from her label shortly after the release of her first solo album. It's inspiring to know that a giant 350 pound man can walk into a bar and pick up the alpha female just by having some pipes and a red hanky.Ī child star in her native Norway, and a teen-pop hopeful as one half of M2M. Unfortunately there is no live footage of two performing this number together, only the video. So let's take a few minutes to learn about some of the women who have helped shape the big man's career:ĭo you need me to tell you who Cher is? Cher and The Loaf hit number 5 in the UK charts in 1982 with 'Dead Ringer For Love' after a slow four month climb.This duet helped to kick-start the Stadium Rock era of her career, where she released some genuinely belting hits before her Auto-tuned revamp in the late 90s. But the impact of the ladies in Loaf's music is undeniable. Maybe I'm in some way correct, maybe not. It's probably not the only reason, to think so would be very patronising, but I like to think that if you actually give women prominent musical roles on stage then ladies may feel a bit more welcome in the audience. Yet remembering this incident did give me an inkling as to why The Loaf has retained such a robust female following even though some may not regard him as a conventionally handsome man with an obvious allure to the ladies of the world. Would this have happened on a solo number? If people weren't able to take turn on the vocals? No idea. A bond was struck right there and we've been cool ever since. They were sung loudly and I was soon jumping off furniture, the party had started.

We were just in similar circles, but one night at a party The Loaf's extravagant romp 'Paradise By The Dashboard Light' came on (no idea why) and it turns out we both knew all the words. I met Emma about 3 years ago and for the first few months we didn't really click or speak much. Then I remembered one of the people I had gone to the show with. The split was roughly 50-50 and I wondered why that could be? Obviously they all like his music, but why is he successful in this department when many other older artists that share his style aren't? Something I noticed about the crowd was that in terms of gender, it was far more equal than many similar Rock bands that I've seen in the past. It's meant to be his final tour, and what looked to be a sold-out audience came to wave him off. “To continue on with a concert after passing out completely on stage for a number of minutes was just a true show of his showmanship and his attitude as a performer and how he takes his art so seriously,” Hindes said.A few night's ago I went along to see Meat Loaf performing at The O2. He was able to continue the concert, but had to sit through a song or two. “I have asthma, I can’t breathe,” Meat Loaf said. In a YouTube video, Meat Loaf told the crowd he had an asthma attack. “After he got back up, he stood up and he said, ‘I always said if I’m going out, I’m going to be going out on stage,'” Hindes said. READ MORE: 6 Shot In Swissvale On Christmas Eve Witnesses say band members and some volunteers rushed to help him.


“There was a lot of chaos going around for about five minutes or so and it took a number of people to sort of bring him to,” Tim Hindes, who went to the concert, said. READ MORE: FAN N'ATION Recipe: Nick's Mistletoe Martini Makes Christmas Merry and BrightĬoncert-goers say the singer was only a few songs into a set when he collapsed. Video of the incident was posted to YouTube. PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - There were some scary moments for concert-goers on Thursday night when singer Meat Loaf collapsed while on stage at the Trib Amphitheater.
