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Jim Steinman

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ComposerLyricistBook Writer 1947–2021

James Richard Steinman (November 1, 1947 – April 19, 2021) was an American composer, lyricist and record producer. He also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer. His work included songs in the adult contemporary, rock, dance, pop, musical theater, and film score genres. He wrote albums for Bonnie Tyler and Meat Loaf, including Bat Out of Hell (one of the best-selling albums in history), and also wrote and produced Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell and Tyler's Faster Than the Speed of Night. His most successful chart singles include Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart", Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing at All", Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", the Si…

Also credited on3 works

Dance of the Vampires
Footloose
Whistle Down the Wind

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In the literature5 passages

  • Dance of the Vampires , with music by American pop songwriter Jim Steinman (1947- ), who wrote Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell album, was based on a Roman Polanski film that was released in 1967 under the more farcical title The Fearless Vampire Killers (or, “Pardon Me But Your Teeth are in my Neck”) . Although he wrote it in English, it was…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Whistle Down the Wind (1998, lyrics by Jim Steinman, book by Patricia Knop, Gale Edwards, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, after the original novel by Mary Hayley Bell and the film by Richard Attenborough)ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
  • MORE THAN YOU DESERVE Book, Michael Weller; Lyrics, Michael Weller, Jim Steinman; Music, Jim Steinman; Director, Kim Friedman; Choreography, DetScott Salmon; Setting, Miguel Romero; Costumes, Lowell and Diweiler; Lighting, Martin Aronstein; Musical Arrangements Producer, Associate rection, Steve Margoshes; Sound, Abe Jacob; Bernard Gerste…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • SONGS "THE CONFIDENCE based on the novel by Herman Melville; Libretto, Ray Errol Fox; Music, Jim Steinman; Lyrics, Ray Errol Fox; Director, Gui Andrisano; Musical Director, Bobby Blume; Stage Manager, John Michael Stringer. CAST: David Eric, Walter Niehenke, Joyce Nolen, Norman Snowtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
  • DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES usical with book by David Ives, Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze; Music and Lyrics by Jim Steinman; Original German book and lyrics by Mr. Kunze; Based on a film by Roman Polanski; Producers, Bob Boyett, USA Ostar Theatricals, Andrew Braunsberg, Lawrence Horowitz, Michael Gardner, Roy Furman, Lexington Road Productions…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2002-03 Season, v. 59 (Willis).txt

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