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…

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…