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* [[Author Appeal]]: He has 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's famous for his eccentricity. When Meat Loaf told the story of his first meeting with Steinman on ''[[VH-1]] Storytellers'', he began with, "Have you ever seen Jim Steinman? He's one weird dude."
* [[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's quite possibly one of the Largest Hams who ever lived.
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* [[Self-Plagiarism]]: Steinman has a habit of reusing choice bits from earlier songs in later works. One of the most obvious is a bridge composed of repetitions of the line "Godspeed! Godspeed! Godspeed! Speed us away!" which has appeared in several different songs over the past 40 years.
** 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 [[Catch Phrase]] territory.
* [[Step Up to the Microphone]]:
* [[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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