The invites sent to Thomas Jefferson High School alumni Monday night say only that Michael Aday will receive one of the four Distinguished Alumni Awards being handed out at a March 6 ceremony on the Northwest Dallas campus. But in 1965, when he graduated, Michael was known by another name: Marvin Lee Aday. A few years later came the other, far more famous moniker: Meat Loaf. As in, the 43-million-and-counting-selling Bat Out of Hell, Rocky Horror Picture Show, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)," Fight Club, Roadie. That Meat Loaf.
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