US hitmaker Jim Steinman dies aged 73
JIM Steinman, who wrote the music for Meat Loaf’s best-selling Bat Out Of Hell album, has died aged 73, his brother said.
Bill Steinman said the Grammywinning composer died on Monday from kidney failure. He had been ill for some time.
Released in 1977, Bat Out Of Hell is one of the top-selling albums of all time.
New Yorker Steinman also wrote Meat Loaf’s 1993 album, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, another huge commercial success.
It featured the hit I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That). Steinman also penned hits such as Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart and Air Supply’s Making Love Out Of Nothing At All.
He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.