Death at 73 of Jim Steinman, composer for Celine Dion and Bonnie Tyler

Jim Steinman, a composer who wrote songs for Celine Dion and Bonnie Tyler, has died at the age of 73.

His brother told The Associated Press that Jim Steinman died of kidney failure on Monday and had been ill for some time.

Born in 1947 in New York, he began his career by participating in the writing of musicals.

He then made himself known by writing songs, most often with rock influences.

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Jim Steinman joined the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012, and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year after writing songs for

Celine Dion's

Falling Into You

album

.

The album, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last month, featured Jim Steinman

's

song

It's All Coming Back to Me Now

.

The composer also wrote the music for Meat Loaf's cult album,

Bat Out of Hell

, released in 1977. This album would become one of the best-selling of all time, selling 14 million copies only. - what in the United States.

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Jim Steinman also wrote Meat Loaf's 1993 album

Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell

, another commercial hit that featured the international hit

I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)

. The composer then participated in the creation of the final part of the

Bat Out of Hell

trilogy

,

Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

. He also composed the rock musical

Bat Out of Hell: The Musical

, first performed in 2017 at the Manchester Opera.

Another fact of glory of the composer: to have signed Bonnie Tyler's

hit Total Eclipse of the Heart

, which had pranced at the top of the Billboard charts in 1983 and earned the singer a Grammy nomination.

Simultaneously, another creation by Jim Steinman,

Making Love Out of Nothing at All

, had climbed to the second place of the famous American charts.

The composer had thus simultaneously occupied the two best places.

"Great influence"

“There are no two composers like him.

He was such an influence, in fact, the greatest influence of my life, and I have learned so much from him that I will never be able to give him back all he has given me

,

”

said Meat Loaf. , very moved, when the composer entered the Hall of Fame of Composers.

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Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman joined forces again in 2016 for

Braver Than We Are

, the artist's latest album. In 1981 Jim Steinman released his only personal album,

Bad for Good.

It featured the title

Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through

, a Top-40 song that Meat Loaf then re-recorded with more success.

Bad for Good

also included the track

Left In the Dark

, which Barbra Streisand had recorded for her album

Emotion

in 1984. Meat Loaf had again recorded the song.