Jim Steinman, the colourful composer behind hits like Bat Out Of Hell and Total Eclipse Of The Heart, has died at the age of 73.
Every good song Meat Loaf ever sang? Steinman wrote it. We owe this man for generations of rock anthems about teenagers trying to get laid.
And while I'm sad to hear that he won't be writing any more songs, I'm really happy that he got Neverland (renamed Bat Out of Hell) onto Broadway before all live theater went dark for two years. He'd apparently been writing and rewriting that musical with every song he'd written since the 70s.
(For that matter, he also composed the gloriously terrible Dance of the Vampires, which was once of two chances I got to see René Auberjonois on stage before he passed. The man couldn't write a plot for love or money, but he was amazing at rock music.)
Every good song Meat Loaf ever sang? Steinman wrote it. We owe this man for generations of rock anthems about teenagers trying to get laid.
And while I'm sad to hear that he won't be writing any more songs, I'm really happy that he got Neverland (renamed Bat Out of Hell) onto Broadway before all live theater went dark for two years. He'd apparently been writing and rewriting that musical with every song he'd written since the 70s.
(For that matter, he also composed the gloriously terrible Dance of the Vampires, which was once of two chances I got to see René Auberjonois on stage before he passed. The man couldn't write a plot for love or money, but he was amazing at rock music.)