Jim Steinman's Best Songs: 10 Essentials
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman during Meat Loaf in Studio Recording "Bat Out of Hell II" in Los Angeles. Few behind-the-scenes figures in 20th century popular music have been unquestionably the greatest in their particular lane -- but if you were a powerhouse pop or rock vocalist of the '70s, '80s or '90s looking for a co-pilot for a grandiose and gloriously overwrought megaballad, you went Jim Steinman or you went home. Rising to fame in the late '70s alongside Texan theater-rocker Meat Loaf as co-creators of the eventually Diamond-certified Bat Out of Hell set, St...