{"id":47281,"date":"2021-04-20T16:52:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jim-steinman-hitmaker-for-meat-loaf-and-celine-dion-dies\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T22:52:21","slug":"jim-steinman-hitmaker-for-meat-loaf-and-celine-dion-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jim-steinman-hitmaker-for-meat-loaf-and-celine-dion-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Steinman, hitmaker for Meat Loaf and Celine Dion, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Inductee Jim Steinman speaks at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala in New York on June 14, 2012. Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer and playwright who wrote Meat Loaf\u2019s best-selling \u201cBat Out Of Hell\u201d debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, at 73. Bill Steinman told The Associated Press that his brother died Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time.<\/span>Evan Agostini\/Invision, file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bill Steinman told The Associated Press that his brother died Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time. He said Jim Steinman died in Connecticut near his home in Ridgefield.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss him a great deal already,\u201d Bill Steinman said by phone Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jim Steinman was born on Nov. 1, 1947, in New York City. He got his start in musical theater and was known for writing and producing epic, operatic rock songs and power ballads throughout his prolific career.<\/p>\n

Steinman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 and won album of the year at the 1997 Grammy Awards for producing songs on Celine Dion\u2019s \u201cFalling Into You,\u201d which celebrated its 25th anniversary last month and featured the Steinman-written power ballad \u201cIt\u2019s All Coming Back to Me Now.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wrote the music for Meat Loaf\u2019s classic album \u201cBat Out of Hell,\u201d released in 1977 and one of the top-selling albums of all-time. It has reached 14-time platinum status by the RIAA, which is equivalent to selling 14 million albums in the U.S. alone.<\/p>\n

Steinman also wrote Meat Loaf\u2019s 1993 album, \u201cBat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell,\u201d another commercial and multiplatinum success that featured the international hit \u201cI\u2019d Do Anything for Love (But I Won\u2019t Do That).\u201d He also worked on 2006\u2019s \u201cBat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose,\u201d which closed the \u201cBat Out of Hell\u201d trilogy.<\/p>\n

He also composed the rock musical \u201cBat Out of Hell: The Musical,\u201d which premiered in 2017 at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n

Steinman was responsible for Tyler\u2019s \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d which topped the Billboard charts in 1983 and earned Tyler a Grammy nomination. When Tyler\u2019s song was No. 1, another Steinman production \u2013 Air Supply\u2019s \u201cMaking Love Out of Nothing at All\u201d \u2013 peaked at No. 2, giving Steinman the Top 2 spots on the chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no other songwriter ever like him,\u201d an emotional and teary-eyed Meat Loaf said at Steinman\u2019s induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. \u201cHere I go getting emotional \u2026 I can never repay him. He has been such an influence, in fact, the biggest influence on my life, and I learned so much from him that there would be no way I could ever repay Mr. Jim Steinman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meat Loaf and Steinman joined forces again for Meat Loaf\u2019s most recent album, 2016\u2019s \u201cBraver Than We Are.\u201d The songs were written over a 50-year period, and include several originally intended for \u201cBat Out of Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steinman\u2019s only album was 1981\u2019s \u201cBad for Good,\u201d which featured \u201cRock and Roll Dreams Come Through,\u201d a Top 40 hit that Meat Loaf later recorded with more success on the charts. \u201cBad for Good\u201d also included the track \u201cLeft In the Dark,\u201d which Barbra Streisand recorded for her 1984 \u201cEmotion\u201d album. Meat Loaf also recorded the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inductee Jim Steinman speaks at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction and awards gala in New York on June 14, 2012. Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer and playwright who wrote Meat Loaf\u2019s best-selling \u201cBat Out Of Hell\u201d debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, at 73. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2482,559],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-celebrity","tag-music"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47281"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}