Jim Steinman dies

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    Gone when the morning comes....RIP
     
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    Love and Death and an American Guitar...RIP
     
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    Midnight At The Lost And Found
     
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    Total eclipse of the heart, apparently. Song writing master.
     
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    RIP Jim, for people of a certain age bat out of hell is an absolute classic , it was an album that everyone seemed to have a copy of in the late 70s...
     
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    Meatloaf and Todd Rundgren are still with us though; two out of three ain't bad...
     
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    Very sad news a musical genius.
     
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    Sad news. Brilliant song writer.
    Sadly missed. R.I.P. Jim
     
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    RIP Jim Brilliant song Writer .
    I was gonna put a eulogy but I won’t do that .
     
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    Another from the days of my youth when I actually followed the music scene gone. Got a fair few records he was involved with Sad news RIP
     
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    ‘SON, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THAT’S NO WAY TO TREAT AN EXPENSIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT!!’ :cool:
    RIP, Jim. You definitely added something to pop music.
     
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    I was more into the Ramones, the Jam & the Damned when "Bat out of Hell" came out. It wasn't my genre. As I've got older I've got to appreciate most genres of music & some of Steinman's songs get people going at parties & they have an overblown, semi orchestral power, much like Queen, (who I also disliked at the time). Clearly the man was a genius at what he did. RIP.
     
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    Agreed. A great driving record on a summer evening. Brilliantly atmospheric. That was Jim’s strength. & Todd Rundgren, of course. The bit in the documentary where they wanted a revving motorcycle noise for Bat & we’re going to bring a Harley into the studio. Todd just grabbed his Les Paul & turned a Marshall way up!! The rest is history. Odd to think he had produced the first New York Dolls album too, just 4 years earlier. :)
     
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    I never realised he produced the Dolls LP. TBH that & the Stooges were the birth of punk rock IMO. The first Damned single sounds more like those two bands than anything else. I suppose you can throw the Velvets / Lou Reed in there somewhere, especially "Vicious" from Transformer that Bowie produced. Mick Ronson was ideal for that kind of guitar part. (Edit: also MC5).

    Anyway, this is a Steinman thread. I remember playing a party at a conference for IT people from all over the world at the People's History Museum in Manchester about 10 years ago & the track "Total Eclipse of the Heart" had come up earlier in the organiser's address. It was a no brainer to start with that & it raised the roof on the massive turbine hall in the venue. Respect where it is due.
     
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    News to me on the Dolls, new found respect
     
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