Let's not forget that, though he doesn't use those exact words, Meat talks in his own autobiography about the difference between the "Meat Loaf character" and himself, and always wrestling with it. In the very last chapter, he talks about that (
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Allen (Kovac, Meat's then-manager) had originally wanted to call Welcome to the Neighborhood, Escape From Hell, to link me to my own heritage. I wanted to do a Meat Loaf record, not more of Steinman's characters. I was screaming at Allen and saying, "I'm sick and tired of being a cartoon. I don't want to be that Meat Loaf comic book character any more."
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There is a difference between the two, and over the course of the book, Meat discusses it at length. Jim (or the editor from the Daily Fail) might be terse in the description, but it's nothing Meat himself hasn't said before. Not as black and white as the article seems to portray it, granted, but then what in life is?