Scotsman obituary: Jim Steinman, US songwriter behind Bat Out of Hell
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msn.comJim Steinman, songwriter. Born: 1 November 1947 on Long Island, New York State. Died: 19 April 2021 in Connecticut, aged 73. At a time when the dull throb and vapid lyrics of disco ruled the popular music scene, record company executives had no interest in long, bombastic musical melodramas sung by some sort of sweaty giant and composed by a songwriter whose biggest influence was Wagner.
Songwriter Jim Steinman and singer Meat Loaf went round all the major record labels with their collection of wildly overblown songs, which by this time was entitled Bat Out of Hell, though it had started life as a musical reworking of Peter Pan called Neverland.
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