Jim Steinman’s last real moment of commercial relevance during his lifetime happened when Celine Dion covered the ballad that had been intended as the lead single from Original Sin and brought it to a mainstream audience. I have rather dreaded the moment of getting to this recording, because I have always had a difficult time…

In 2000, Jim Steinman planned a project called Bat out of Nashville that would be getting a bunch of artists to record country versions of Bat out of Hell songs. I was horrified. It never came to fruition. But there was at least some logic to the concept. I probably would not have understood it…

After Steinman had seemingly resurrected the career of one of his past collaborators in Meat Loaf, he ended up putting out two covers with his other common collaborator of the past who had since disappeared from the charts in Bonnie Tyler. It’s actually remarkable how well Tyler and Meat Loaf parallel one another after working…