TO HELL AND BACK an Autobiography (Signed copy)

NY: Regan Books, 1999. (USA) 1st printing. SIGNED BY meat Loaf to the end paper, no other markings, Fine in unclipped Fine dust jacket. Hardcover, 287pp, then [5]pp photo credits, B&W and colour photos. From the jacket: In To Hell and Back, Meat Loaf reveals his amazing story--a rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches life that would rival most fiction. As a boy, he had to face down lowlifes straight out of Deliverance in order to fetch his drunken father out of gutbucket saloons--the same father who would later try to kill him with a butcher knife. He was at Parkland Hospital when JFK was declared dead, picked up a hitchhiker who happened to be Charles Manson, got recruited for the musical Hair while trying to get a job as a parking attendant, and starred in a movie that became the biggest cult film of all time, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. From there, he collaborated with Jim Steinman to make a record called Bat Out of Hell, which went from being laughed at and rejected by every music executive in the industry to selling more than 28 million copies and launching Meat Loaf into international superstardom. Meat's story would be incredible if it stopped right there. But that's just the beginning. (2.0 JM 0419. Signed by Author. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".