Grammy-winning composer Jim Steinman dies aged 73 Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf’s bestselling Bat Out Of Hell debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died, his brother said. He was 73. Bill Steinman told the Associated Press that his brother died on Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time. He said Jim Steinman died in Connecticut near his home in Ridgefield, according to The Guardian. “I miss him a great deal already,” Bill Steinman said by phone on Tuesday. Jim Steinman was born on 1 November 1947 in New York City.