It’s a complicated story how it happened, but Steinman ended up writing and producing two songs for the score to the film Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, USA 1984). They were credited to “Fire, Inc.,” which was basically Steinman’s normal backing crew with Laurie Sargent added to some of the vocals. The film wound up…

With her career revived and taken to new heights by Faster than the Speed of Night, screenwriter/songwriter Dean Pitchford came calling for a new Tyler song for his upcoming film Footloose (Herbert Ross, USA 1984). Since getting Bonnie Tyler meant working with Jim Steinman and he was co-writing the songs for the film with diverse…

For the first time in this series, we have a song making its second appearance, as someone sees fit to rescue one of the songs from Dead Ringer. And, as everyone would have expected, this would-be rock and roll hero is . . . Barry Manilow. Interviews and reviews at the time are often shocked…