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Meat Loaf will start a new album followed by knee surgery and a tour.

Meat Loaf has a busy year ahead of him. He is starting work on a new album next week that he is calling Brave and Crazy, and will then begin what he is calling his last tour, in the spring.

The Last at Bat Tour gets underway in England in April and he says it will be split into two parts. "The first act will include hits like 'I'd Lie For You,' 'No Matter What,' 'All Coming Back to Me,' 'Dead Ringer,' 'Out of the Fryin' Pan' and others... Act two will be Bat Out of Hell in sequence, including 'For Crying Out Loud.'"

And just after starting the album, Meat will undergo a double-knee replacement in two weeks, which he says is "gonna hurt dude. Really hurt." Meat has two shows this week -- tonight (Monday) in Ithaca, New York and Wednesday in Port Chester, New York.