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Celine Dion and Andrew Lloyd Webber join salutes to late Jim Steinman By Rick Da Conceicao
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The hitmaker and producer died from kidney failure at the age of 73 on Monday.
Following the sad news, Steinman s famous fans and collaborators have taken to social media to pay their respects, with Dion, who recorded Steinman s It s All Coming Back to Me Now, calling him an amazing producer and songwriter .
She tweeted: He was a musical genius. and having the opportunity to work with him was one of the greatest privileges of my career.
While Lloyd Webber, who worked with Steinman on the musical Whistle Down The Wind, compared the songwriter to German composer Richard Wagner.
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