a top of the u. s. charts. and he managed to break through a, despite all this and become one, the most successful poppers of all time selling upwards of a 100000000 albums worldwide. what do you think? set him apart as a singer and a performer? yeah, i think performance is the key a meatloaf said himself that he had trouble being taken seriously as, as a, as a pop star. and that people often saw more as a, as a circus clown. i'm. and i think that it came a bit from it's sort of theatrical background. he started in stage musicals, and he was incredibly theatrical performer. his music was a theatrical and unclean, as i said, broke all the rules. and my favorite song of his is paradise. by the dashboard light, probably the best ever song about making out in the back seat of a car. i'm and that as again, is, is, is, is, has a musical range that goes from maybe janis joplin to, to freddy mercury. and he, as i said, broke all the rules and, and that's why his, his fans worldwide really adored the man. and he really