Jim Steinman

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Jim Steinman (2005)
Jim Steinman (2005)
Chart placements
Explanation of the data
Albums
Bad for Good
  DE 45 08/03/1981 (6 weeks)
  UK 7th 
silver
silver
05/09/1981 (25 weeks)
  US 63 05/16/1981 (17 weeks)
Singles
Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through
  UK 52 07/04/1981 (7 weeks)
  US 32 05/30/1981 (16 weeks)
Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young (with Fire Inc. )
  UK 67 06/09/1984 (5 weeks)
  US 80 06/02/1984 (5 weeks)

James Richard "Jim" Steinman (* 1. November 1947 in New York City ; † 19th April 2021 in Danbury , Connecticut ) was an American rock - and musical - composer and music producer . He wrote a large part of the songs for Meat Loaf as well as Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart and several musicals.

Activity as a songwriter and producer

Steinman composed the music for Dance of the Vampires and wrote the text for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind . The songs he wrote for Bonnie Tyler broke with their previous country image. He also wrote the two songs recorded under the group name Fire Inc. for the soundtrack to the movie Streets in Flames . Performers of his songs were, among others, Billy Squier and Celine Dion .

His songs are known to have been interpreted by many artists over generations. So the song It's All Coming Back to Me Now originally comes from the album Original Sin by the women's group Pandora's Box from 1989. Seven years later the song was sung by Celine Dion, before it was again on the album Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose from 2006 was interpreted as a duet by Meat Loaf and Marion Raven . Other examples: Left in the Dark was sung by Jim Steinman himself, Meat Loaf and Barbra Streisand ; the Meat Loaf title Read 'Em and Weep (1981) became a number one hit on the American adult contemporary charts for Barry Manilow two years later .

He shaped Wagnerian Rock , as he called his style of music based on Richard Wagner himself. His best known songs are Meat Loafs Bat Out of Hell , I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) and Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart . Steinman died in April 2021 at the age of 73.

Discography

Albums

year title Interpreter
as a solo artist
1981 Bad for Good Jim Steinman
as a producer
1983 Faster Than the Speed ​​of Night Bonnie Tyler
1984 Signs of Life Billy Squier
1986 Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire Bonnie Tyler
1995 Twister Watershed
as a composer
1977 Bat out of hell Meat loaf
1981 Dead ringer Meat loaf
2016 Braver Than We Are Meat loaf
as a composer and producer
1989 Original Sin Pandora's Box
1993 Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell Meat loaf
as a songwriter
1996 Whistle down the wind

Songs

year Title Interpreter album
as a composer
1973 Happy ending Yvonne Elliman Food of Love
1983 Read 'Em and Weep Barry Manilow / Meat Loaf Greatest Hits, Vol. II & Dead Ringer
Making Love Out of Nothing at All Air supply Making Love… The Very Best of Air Supply
Faster Than the Speed ​​of Night Bonnie Tyler Faster Than the Speed ​​of Night
Total Eclipse of the Heart
1984 Nowhere Fast Fire Inc. Streets of Fire
Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young
Left in the Dark Barbra Streisand emotion
1985 Nowhere Fast Meat loaf Bad attitude
Hulk Hogan's Theme World Wrestling Federation The Wrestling Album
1986 Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It Bonnie Tyler Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire
Rebel Without a Clue
Holding Out for a Hero
Ravishing
1990 More The Sisters of Mercy Vision thing
1990 Making Love Out of Nothing at All Bonnie Tyler Free Spirit
Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
1996 It's All Coming Back to Me Now Celine Dion Falling into you
1998 Splackavellia Pressha The Players Club (Soundtrack)
2002 Is Nothing Sacred Russell Watson Encore
2005 A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste The Everly Brothers On the Wings of a Nightingale: The Mercury Studio Recordings
2006 It's All Coming Back to Me Now Meat loaf Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose
Bad for Good
In the Land of the Pig, the Butcher Is King
If It Ain't Broke, Break It
Seize the night
The Future Ain't What It Used to Be
Cry to Heaven
as a producer
1986 Love Can Make You Cry Iron Eagle
1987 This Corrosion The Sisters of Mercy Floodland
Dominion / Mother Russia
1992 Bring Me the Head of Jerry Garcia Iron prostate
1995 Never forget Take that Nobody Else
1996 No matter what Boyzone Where We Belong
1996 Call the Man Celine Dion Falling into you
River Deep, Mountain High
1997 Us Let's talk about love
In the Dark of the Night Anastasia
I Want to Spend My Lifetime Loving You The mask of Zorro
2002 Vittoria! Opera babes Beyond imagination

Web links

Commons : Jim Steinman  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  4. ↑ Jim Steinman is dead. In: Spiegel.de. April 21, 2021, accessed April 21, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Steinman, Jim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinman, James Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rock and musical composer, music producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Danbury , Connecticut