So yesterday I met Meat Loaf at Londons big HMV and got him to sign my copy of his new album, Hell In A Handbasket. It was a great day out, met up with the fan club, waited around telling stories and such, and then got to meet the man himself. I surprised myself with how cool I was and how I wasn't nervous or anything.

At the end of the day I realised he's just another guy whose work I greatly admire, so i've no reason to be any more nervous meeting him than he would be meeting me. And i'm good at meeting people anyway. So although it was brief we had a nice exchange of words and I got my album signed, a worthwhile experience.

Early indications are that the album will go top 5 this week which is a good result for Meat.

You've only just bought this album, strange I bought it months ago when it first came out.

In the UK? Because it only got a UK release in the UK this week. So I guess by your tone you are implying that the OP should have turned up to the signing in HMV with an import copy?

To answer the question I did buy an imported copy back in October, but I wanted to get the UK version anyway as it's slightly different. And I wanted to go to the signing to meet him.

So pleased that my favourite artist made No. 5 in the UK album chart. Shows he's still got a lot of fans out there, still popular.