Aww, good old Marvin Lee. My mom was married to his cousin, and I met him as Marvin Lee in 1980 at a funeral in Malakoff, Texas.

He was a very kind man. I was only 15 and had no idea I was actually speaking to Meat Loaf. No one in the family treated him like he was anything other than a regular guy.

I never saw him again, my Mom and that stepdad divorced.

I figured out that Marvin Lee was Meat Loaf in my 40's, I was reading about him and nearly fell out of my chair when I realized the mild-mannered man who sang at the funeral and was so sweet was a rock legend.