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| Translation of Jim's bio from the program | |
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EvilNickname 09:41 pm UTC 09/19/10 |
| For your entertainment, or as they might have said in Dutch ages ago, ter leering ende vermaeck: Jim Steinman Music & additional material Jim Steinman was born as James Richard Steinman in New York on November 1st 1948. Although he started out in musical theater, he is mostly know as a composer and producer. The L.A. Times described him as the Richard Wagner of rock. His musical style is also known as Wagnerian Rock-Opera. That is a style influenced by Wagner's opera's and the musical productions of Phil Spector (River Deep, Mountain High and You've Lost That Loving Feeling). In his style we also find elements of Elvis Presley's music, and in the late 1960's and early 70's Steinman's main influences were The Doors and Bruce Springsteen. Steinman was a student at Amherst College in America in the 1960's. His musical roots lie there. As a young guy he composed scores for plays by Brecht and Shakespeare. In 1969 he also made a musical, The Dream Engine, directed by Barry Keating. Steinman himself played the lead, later a still unknown Richard Gere took over. The Dream Engine was a very progressive musical, with as theme the struggle between the young and those in control, the theme of the era. His first professional musical was More Than You Deserve in The Public Theatre in 1973, under Joe Papp's supervision, who discovered Steinman through The Dream Engine. Is was during the auditions for More Than You Deserve that Steinman got to know a young singer from Texas, called Meat Loaf (real name: Marvin Lee Aday). Steinman was immediately impressed and this meeting is regarded as one of the most important meetings in the history of rock music. Later his first album, the legendary Bat Out Of Hell, was released, which sold in excess of 30 million copies. It's predecessor, Bat Out Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, conquered the charts sixteen years later, in 1993, and was the quickest selling album since Thriller. Steinman's hits are unforgettable: Total Eclipse of the Heart, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Making Love Out of Nothing at All, Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad, Holding Out for a Hero, I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) and It's All Coming Back To Me Now. In 1997 he received a Grammy Award as producer of the Best Album of the Year for Céline Dion's Falling Into You. He also wrote music for the movies Footloose, Streets of Fire, The Shadow and Mask of Zorro, and musicals like Neverland and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind. | |
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