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In 1997, fresh off the success of Celine Dion’s version of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” Steinman ended up getting called to an unusual project. As we transition to discussing the musical, I want to acknowledge a debt to Gibson DelGiudice’s blog for a wealth of background information that was easily digestible for…

Back in the early days of this project of writing about all of Jim Steinman’s music, I was stymied by this song and never got around to writing about it. Well, the day has come. As a general rule, people like to split things into extreme binaries and ignore everything in between. The internet and…

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…