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The brilliant songwriter for Meat Loaf, Céline Dion and Bonnie Tyler, who has died aged 73, reminded us that pop music should involve fantasy and a sense of the ridiculous
Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler songwriter Jim Steinman dies By (0) April 20 (UPI) -- Songwriter Jim Steinman died Monday, according to the Connecticut state medical examiner. Variety and TMZ confirmed with the medical examiner. According to TMZ, a medical emergency was called to Steinman's home at 3:30 a.m. EDT. The death was considered sudden. Steinman was 73. Advertisement Steinman was a musical theater songwriter who found rock n' roll success when he wrote all seven songs for the Meat Loaf album Bat Out of Hell. The 1977 album bears the credit "songs by Jim Steinman." Meat Loaf's follow-up wa...
Rolling Stone Jim Steinman, Hitmaker for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Dead at 73 Songwriter and composer also worked with Celine Dion, Air Supply, Barry Manilow, and more By Rock and pop hitmaker Jim Steinman, who wrote and composed music for Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, and more, died Monday in Danbury, Connecticut. He was 73. The office of the chief medical examiner in Connecticut confirmed Steinman’s death to Rolling Stone. Steinman’s brother Bill told the Associated Press that the cause of death was kidney failure. A statement posted on Steinman’s Facebook page read...
Updated / Wednesday, 21 Apr 2021 19:45 Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf during the recording of Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell in Los Angeles in 1991 The death has been announced of the composer and lyricist Jim Steinman, whose credits include Meat Loaf's landmark album Bat Out of Hell, his worldwide hit I'd Do Anything for Love, and Bonnie Tyler's number one power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart. He was 73. The Connecticut State Medical Examiner confirmed Steinman's passing to entertainment trade publication Variety. It was later reported that Steinman died from kidney failure and had b...
Just over a year ago, the 2020 edition of the Sundance Film Festival launched in the snow-capped mountains of Park City, Utah, as it has every year since its founding in 1978. One of the most significant American film festivals commenced only three days after the first documented case of COVID-19 and concluded only three days after the declaration of a public-health emergency in the United States. The year since has been filled with tremendous loss and crippling struggle. It has been an extended time of isolation, in which community events like film festivals have had to reinvent themselves i...