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Jim Steinman (1947-2021) was a prolific and influential songwriter who created hits for Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, and others. He also wrote musicals such as Bat Out of Hell and Tanz der Vampire.
Apr 20, 2021 · Jim Steinman, who wrote all the songs on “Bat Out of Hell,” Meat Loaf’s operatic, teenage-angst-filled 1977 debut album, which remains one of the most successful records of all time, died...
Learn about Jim Steinman's five-decade career, from his senior project at Amherst to his global hits with Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion and more. Discover his musical collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Corben, Michael Bay and others.
- Meat Loaf, “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’T Do That)”
- Bonnie Tyler, “Total Eclipse of The Heart”
- Celine Dion, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
- Jim Steinman, “Bad For Good”
- Bonnie Tyler, “Holding Out For A Hero”
- Meat Loaf, “Paradise by The Dashboard Light”
- The Sisters of Mercy, “More”
- Meat Loaf, “Two Out of Three Ain’T Bad”
- Air Supply, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All”
- Barry Manilow, “Read ‘Em and Weep”
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Meat Loaf seemed like just about the last artist on earth likely to score a Number One hit at the height of the grunge era in 1993. But he reunited with Jim Steinman that year for the long-delayed sequel to Bat Out of Hell, and the leadoff single, “I’d Do Anything for Love (but I Won’t Do That),” was so undeniably brilliant that radio stations all ...
“Total Eclipse of the Heart” is Jim Steinman at his most awesomely bombastic, with the famous hook, “Turn around, bright eyes!” It was a 1983 Number One hit for the Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, whose previous U.S. hit had been the Seventies folk-rock ditty “It’s a Heartache.” Steinman gave her a chance to belt, with a mini opera that spiraled through...
What do you do when you set out to write the most romantic song ever? Put Celine Dion in a gothic castle and make sure all the windows are dramatically wide open at all times. Steinman always envisioned a woman singing this iconic power ballad, so he denied giving it to Meat Loaf (who later recorded it anyway) and offered it to his female group Pan...
Jim Steinman originally conceived his 1981 LP, Bad for Good, as Meat Loaf’s follow-up to Bat Out of Hell, but when the singer suffered significant vocal problems, he decided to simply record the tunes himself and release it under his own name. He may have lacked Meat Loaf’s pipes, but the title track is still a masterpiece. Had Meat been able to si...
For the massively successful soundtrack for the 1984 film Footloose, screenwriter Dean Pitchford worked with a diverse array of songwriters to set the tone for the classic blockbuster. Steinman’s contribution was the deliciously camp “Holding Out for a Hero,” a track so big that it makes a scene where two tractors play chicken feel unrepentantly ur...
Steinman set out to make the ultimate song about sex in a car and he easily delivered with the epic “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” Off Bat Out of Hell and sung by Meat Loaf with Ellen Foley, “Paradise” is a horny, over-the-top tale of a young couple preparing to “go all the way tonight.” Told in three parts (four, if you count the radio-style b...
Steinman’s late-Eighties and early-Nineties work with British goth rockers Sisters of Mercy was proof that his shamelessly over-the-top aesthetics could elevate just about any genre. The band first teamed up with him on 1987’s “This Corrosion” — where frontman Andrew Eldritch told the producerhe was after a “disco party run by the Borgias” — which ...
The most magical things result from listening to Elvis, and for Steinman, it was “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.” The Bat Out of Hell highlight was born after Steinman heard “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” on the radio, and applied its simplicity to Meat’s booming heartbreak — resulting in icicles instead of tears. “Meat has Elvis in him,” Steinm...
The story goes that Steinman wrote this 1983 power ballad for Meat Loaf, but Loaf’s record company didn’t want to foot the bill for him record it. So “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” landed with Air Supply, the Australian duo of singer Russell Hitchcock and songwriter-guitarist Graham Russell. “Russell loved the song straightaway, and so did I,”...
Hardly anyone noticed this song when it appeared on Meat Loaf’s Dead Ringer, but a few years later, Steinman revived it — with tweaked lyrics — for a Manilow compilation. As incongruous as the alliance sounded at the time, it worked. Manilow was always at his glorious best when he took it way over the top, so he couldn’t have been more at home with...
Jim Steinman was a songwriter-producer who wrote epic rock anthems for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion and more. Here are 10 of his best songs, from "Total Eclipse of the Heart" to "Bad for Good".
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Apr 20, 2021 · Jim Steinman, co-creator of power ballads and orchestral-style rock by such artists as Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler, has died. Steinman was a composer, lyricist and record producer...
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Jim Steinman - Nocturnal Pleasures. Biographical. Bat Out of Hell: The Musical. A Photo History. News and Notes. Rockman on Facebook. Instagram.
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Apr 21, 2021 · Jim Steinman, the colourful composer behind hits like Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart, has died at the age of 73. His brother Bill told the Associated Press that the songwriter and...
