Jim Steinman
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- Jim Steinman at Discogs
- Jim Steinman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dream Pollution - The Jim Steinman Website
- Fan page with extensive work information, lyrics, etc. (English)
- Literature by and about Jim Steinman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Joachim Hentschel: Obituary for Jim Steinman - The man for the car accident song. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 21, 2021, accessed on April 21, 2021 .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
- ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ Jim Steinman is dead. In: Spiegel.de. April 21, 2021, accessed April 21, 2021 .
personal data | |
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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 |