{"id":27413,"date":"2021-04-20T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27413"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:50:36","slug":"rip-jim-steinman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=27413","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Jim Steinman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2021\/z042021rip_jimsteinman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jim Steinman, lyricist of million-selling hit records, died yesterday at the age of 73.\u00a0 No cause of death was released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steinman is best known for his collaborations with Meat Loaf on the albums <em>Bat Out of Hell<\/em> (1977) and <em>Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell<\/em> (1993).\u00a0 <em>Bat Out of Hell<\/em> produced two top ten hits: <em>\u201cTwo of Three Ain\u2019t Bad\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cParadise by the Dashboard Light\u201d<\/em> and became one of the best-selling albums ever.\u00a0 <em>Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell<\/em> released one single: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;d Do Anything for Love (But I Won\u2019t Do That)\u201d<\/em> that spent five weeks at No. 1.\u00a0 Steinman also penned the music and book for <em>Bat Out of Hell: The Musical<\/em> which ran from February through April in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steinman may have been known best for his two collaborations with Meat Loaf, but he composed and produced hits with many other artists including&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;Making Love Out of Nothing at All&#8221;<\/em> performed by Air Supply<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Total Eclipse of the Heart&#8221;<\/em> (which he also produced) performed by Bonnie Tyler<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Nowhere Fast&#8221;<\/em> performed by Fire, Inc. for the <em>Streets of Fire<\/em> Soundtrack<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Left in the Dark&#8221;<\/em> performed by Barbara Streisand<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Hulk Hogan&#8217;s Theme&#8221;<\/em> for the WWE<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;Holding Out for a Hero&#8221;<\/em> (which he also produced and co-wrote with Dean Pitchford) performed by Bonnie Tyler<\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s All Coming Back to Me Now&#8221;<\/em> performed by Celine Dion<\/li>\n<li>and many more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jim Steinman&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Steinman, lyricist of million-selling hit records, died yesterday at the age of 73.\u00a0 No cause of death was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,17,54,64,57,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-celebs","category-movies","category-music","category-rip","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27414,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27413\/revisions\/27414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}