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Meat Loaf plans Tyneside charity concert
BAT out of Hell singer Meatloaf plans to hold a charity concert in Newcastle to apologise for walking off stage on his last visit to Tyneside.
Fans feared for the superstar rocker when his show in October last year was cut short after 70 minutes.
He told fans: “I take my coat off and thank you for 30 years.”
Yesterday Meatloaf told BBC Radio 2 that a cyst had silenced his vocal chords on the night, and then revealed that he was working on plans for a charity gig on Tyneside.
He told presenters Mark Radcliffe and Sally Lindsay: “I felt really bad for the people of Newcastle because the English laws are if you’re on stage longer than an hour you can’t get a refund.
“Nothing would come out. I said to them something about ‘I love all of you and thanks for the career, I’ll never set foot on the stage again or whatever – melodramatic crap’.
“I meant it at the time. I didn’t know what to do with myself. It was a cyst. Basically the cyst just stops the vocal chords from moving.
“I sat in the dressing room – I wouldn’t let anyone in. Security was trying to get me out of the building.
“Go away I’m not leaving ever. I’m not going. As we’re riding in a car over here again – they were taking emails or something – this guy wrote in and said ‘Why don’t you do a free concert in Newcastle?’
“We’re trying to come up with something, but I really want to do something for charity. I could go and do a free concert but all these people who didn’t have tickets would show up. You want to do something for the people who had tickets, or for the city of Newcastle.”