I rarely think about age and getting older. Well, actually, I think all the time about age, thanks to Ava, but I don’t usually sit around in wistful remembrance of my youth. But today I saw something that made me feel old. Meat Loaf is 60. Meat Loaf! It hardly seems possible, but then he wasn’t the youngest star in the world when Paradise by the Dashboard Light was big on the charts. Sixty years old. Man. In honor of the Loaf, I present here a video of his masterwork, one of the seminal performances of the music video age:
This was back when the Loaf was the Loaf. Brother looks like he’s smuggling Oompa Loompas in that pirate shirt of his. And could his singing partner have been any hotter? It’s like she walked onto the stage straight from her victory in the World’s Tightest White Jeans contest.