I am well aware that Meat Loaf also recorded “Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back,” as well as other songs of hopelessness. But when the Loaf gives me lemons, I make lemonade. So here are my ...

Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday in 1947 to a family of gospel singers. The son of an abusive father, he left Texas for Los Angeles in the late ’60s, first working as a bouncer and eventually ...