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An American songwriter, composer, arranger and [[Record Producer]] famed for his love of both ''[[Peter Pan]]'' and [[Rock and Roll]] [[Cliché Storm|clichés]], '''Jim Steinman''' (1947-2021)
Steinman got his start in musical theatre, scoring, arranging and playing piano in a number of productions. He met [[Meat Loaf]], then an aspiring singer and actor, when he auditioned for an off-Broadway musical composed by Steinman called ''More Than You Deserve'' and they began a partnership that
Aside from his occasional reunions with Meat Loaf, he
He
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* [[Author Appeal]]: He had a fascination (or perhaps obsession would be the better term) with ''[[Peter Pan]]'', and in addition to his work on ''Neverland'' random references to it show up all over his other work -- such as a digression about Captain Hook and how he coped with the Lost Boys in the middle of the Joker's song "Wonderful Toys" from his ''Batman'' musical.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: He
* [[Dramatic Timpani]]: One of his trademarks is a thunder-like rumble of drums at dramatic points in his songs.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: His compositions tend to last a bit longer than the average pop song, and in some cases they're more like mini-operas with distinct movements than songs with verses and choruses. Steinman reportedly burst into tears when he heard that radio stations wouldn't play the twelve-minute album version of "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" (keep in mind that the single edit was pushing it at seven minutes, and it's still one of the longest songs to get to number one in America).
* [[Large Ham]]: Based on his bizarre spoken word interludes on ''Bat Out of Hell'' (the introduction to "You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth"), and ''Bat Out of Hell II'' ("Wasted Youth", also on his album ''Bad For Good'') he
* [[Long Title]]: "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," "Objects In the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are", and "Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back." The only things longer than the titles are the songs themselves.
* [[Love Nostalgia Song]]: Wrote more than a few of these. "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" is probably the most successful.
* [[Pop Star Composer]]: His greatest success in this capacity was composing the music for the enormously popular European [[Vampire Musical]] ''[[Tanz
* [[Record Producer]]: Comes under several of the categories listed on that page --
** '''Acrimony Producer''': Steinman was infamously [[Executive Meddling|hired at the behest of the record company]] to produce the album ''Hysteria'' with [[Def Leppard]] after [[Mutt Lange]] initially decided to pull out. What should have been a [[Dream Team]] partnership promptly went south. Steinman wanted to produce a raw-sounding rock and roll record while the band wanted to make a more polished, [[Queen]]-style album. These differences proved
** '''One Trick Pony''': Most of his productions have grandiose, bombastic sounds, drawing influence from Bruce Springsteen, Phil Spector and classical composers such as Wagner.
* [[Rock Opera]]: Meat Loaf once explained that every song Steinman
* [[Self
** Individual lines often show up in multiple places, such as "Forever is such a long, long time, and most of it hasn't even happened yet". Some of these appear often enough in his work that they approach [[Author Catchphrase]] territory.
* [[Step Up to The Microphone]]: Aside from the spoken word passages he has contributed to some Meat Loaf albums, Steinman performed lead vocals on the 1981 album ''Bad For Good'' after Meat lost his voice. Most critics noted that his singing turned out to be the weak link on an otherwise strong album.▼
** Another such line: "Infinite victims, infinitesimal time".
▲* [[Step Up to
* [[Teenage Death Songs]]: The title track on ''Bat Out of Hell'' is his most enduring homage to this style.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: In 1986, Andrew Lloyd Webber asked Steinman to write the lyrics for his musical adaptation of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', but was turned down because Steinman was contractually obligated to produce for [[Def Leppard]] at the time.
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