{"id":214639,"date":"2025-12-28T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214639\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:12:09","slug":"how-meat-loafs-chaotic-tour-of-rural-ireland-in-1990-brought-his-music-career-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214639\/","title":{"rendered":"How Meat Loaf\u2019s chaotic tour of rural Ireland in 1990 brought his music career back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">RT\u00c9 documentary traces US superstar\u2019s heartfelt and often hilarious journey\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Meat Loaf on his tour of Ireland with Tommy and Geraldine Swarbrigg at Shannon Airport, 1990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/17_TOMMY SWARBRIGG_MEAT LO.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Meat Loaf on his tour of Ireland with Tommy and Geraldine Swarbrigg at Shannon Airport, 1990<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When US superstar Meat Loaf undertook his chaotic tour of rural Ireland in 1990 he had a series of narrow escapes. A new RT\u00c9 documentary details how he was hospitalised after falling off a stage, narrowly avoided getting punched by a security guard at his own gig, and played Belfast at the height of the Troubles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">His 1977 album Bat Out of Hell was one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, but at a career crossroads the larger-than-life rock star found himself in some of Ireland\u2019s most unlikely venues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 documentary traces US superstar\u2019s heartfelt and often hilarious journey Meat Loaf on his tour of Ireland with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,111547,6085],"class_list":["post-214639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meat-loaf","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}