Jim Steinman, the songwriter, lyricist, producer and multi-instrumentalist who wrote all the songs on Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell i Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, is dead, TMZ i Rolling rock report. No cause of death has been revealed. Steinman was 73 years old.
Jim Steinman was born in New York City in 1947. He grew up on Long Island, graduated from George W. Hewlett High School in 1965 before attending Amherst College and graduated in 69. When he was a senior at Amherst, Steinman created and starred in musical theater production The engine of dreams, which he is said to have called “a three-hour rock epic with a lot of nudity.”
Among the spectators of The engine of dreams it was Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater, who worked with Steinman to adapt the musical to a show called Neverland, which finally premiered in 1977. Through his connection to public theater, Steinman worked with Meat Loaf, which appeared in Steinman’s 1973 production. More than you deserve.
In 1975, Steinman left the world of theater to focus on making music with Meat Loaf. Two years later, their collaboration was spectacularly made with the debut of Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell, which would become one of the best-selling albums of all time. Steinman and Meat Loaf spent separate years before reuniting for the successful 1993 sequel. Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, with Meat Loaf’s most iconic song: “I would do anything for love (but I won’t do that).” Lou Reed is said to have called the album “the future where rock should go.”
Beyond his work with Meat Loaf, Jim Steinman posted hits for Bonnie Tyler (“Total Heart Eclipse”), Céline Dion (“Everything’s Coming Back to Me Now”), the Sisters of Mercy (“More”) And others . He also released the solo album Evil for good in 1981.
Steinman was nominated for four Grammy Awards, participating in the 1997 Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his work on Céline Dion Falling into you. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
One of the final successes of Jim Steinman’s life was the twist Bat Out of Hell in a stage show. Bat Out of Hell: the musical it premiered in Manchester, England, in February 2017 and has operated in various locations over the next two years. “That was supposed to be a musical,” Meat Loaf said The New York Times. “I turned it into a rock show. Jimmy turned him around and made a musical. That’s what I wanted it to be. “