Jim Steinman

Jim Steinman, songwriter, composer and producer, “father of the power ballad”, has died, aged 73. Responsible for some of the most grandiose songs in the canon of pop and rock, including many of Meat Loaf’s hits, as well as Total Eclipse Of The Heart, originally written for a Nosferatu musical - “Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time” - and the music for Streets Of Fire, including writing the big final hit Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young in two days after the production failed to gets rights to a Springsteen song, and as producer for The Sisters Of Mercy he worked on their breakthrough hit This Corrosion and follow-up Dominion, as well as More later.