My Meat Loaf roots stem back to when I was 4 years old. At the time, my 11 year old brother and sister brought home the LP BOOH in 1979. Funny story, they actually used to scare the death out of me when they played the beginning spoken part of YTTW. However, I couldn't get enough of "Paradise". I had NO idea what the song was actually about, being that young. HOWEVER, I loved baseball...I thought the song was about baseball THEN. Not sure when it was that I wised up about it. Regardless, I wanted to play it over and over again. It wasn't my album....so I had to sneak it!
Fandom, started and I didn't even know it!
My mom loved Engelbert Humperdinck (and still does), my sister loved Steve Perry, my other sister loved Prince, my brother loved Pat Benetar, and I, MEAT LOAF!!!! My dad was the only sane person in the house! lol.
But, yeah, that's how it began.
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