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Jim Steinman posing for the camera at the Sony Music Studios in London on Feb. 6, 1981.
Jim Steinman, the composer, lyricist and record producer behind hits for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Céline Dion, has died, Connecticut s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirms to
Billboard. He was 73.
Steinman was best known for his work on Meat Loaf s 1977 debut studio album
Bat Out of Hell, which is one of the best-selling albums of all time and is certified 14 times platinum by the RIAA, where he wrote the songs Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad (No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, 1978), Paradise by the Dashboard Light (No. 39, 1978), and You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (No. 39, 1979).
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His own website described him as “The Lord of Excess”, and the Los Angeles Times dubbed him “the Richard Wagner of Rock and Roll”. Jim Steinman, who has died of kidney failure aged 73, made a spectacular career of being bigger and more bombastic than the rest, and his achievement in masterminding Meat Loaf’s album Bat Out of Hell will guarantee his immortality.
Bat . has sold more than 50m copies since its 1977 release. It is the original and best showcase for Steinman’s mixture of extended multipart song structures, beyond-operatic production, and lyrics in which teen angst is inflated to berserk dimensions. Bat’s producer, Todd Rundgren, thought the album was supposed to be a parody of Bruce Springsteen – members of Springsteen’s E Street Band played on it – and Steinman did not entirely reject parallels with the Boss. His own songs, Steinman said, “are dream operatic, his are street operatic. He’s more West Side
The world has lost a legend among songwriters as Jim Steinman, known for his work with Meat Loaf and several other iconic stars, has passed away. TMZ reports that Steinman passed away on Monday. The deteails and cause of death are unclear, but the site reports that there was a medical call to transport a male patient from his home at 3:30 AM on Sunday. Steinman was 73.
For most people, Steinman is best known for his collaborations with Meat Loaf. Steinman penned the whole of the rock singer’s
Bat Out of Hell and
Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell albums, but he also wrote several other megahits for the likes of Bonnie Tyler, Sisters of Mercy, Celine Dion, Air Supply, and more. He got his start in music, to no surprise, in the theater where in 1968 he began contributing music for stage adaptations at Amherst College, where he was studying. He wrote his first full musical,