" The show also contained Steinman's " Bolero " ( a. k. a. " Great Bolero's of Fire ") which was later used at many live shows featuring Steinman work.

Steinman also wrote two of the songs on the album: " Total Eclipse of the Heart " and " Faster Than the Speed of Night ".

Steinman also produced the track " Us ", written by Billy Pace, for Dion's 1997 album Let's Talk About Love.

The compilation also included three new recordings of songs co-written by Steinman, all three of which he produced.

It included a recording, produced by Steinman and Andrew Lloyd Webber, and also co-produced by Steven Rinkoff and Nigel Wright, of the Steinman / Webber song " A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste ", from Whistle Down The Wind.

Levay also worked with Giorgio Moroder, and Kunze began work with Jim Steinman.

Composer Steinman was no stranger to the theater scene in New York, having spent five years under the professional wing of New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph Papp in the early Seventies and authored several musicals, including The Dream Engine, Neverland and The Confidence Man, and also provided the lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Whistle Down the Wind.

A creative team was also finally being assembled, including set designer David Gallo, who Steinman liked because Gallo told him upon meeting for the first time that he was probably the only set designer in America who still subscribed to Heavy Metal Magazine, and that he bought Bat Out of Hell because he saw the album cover artwork ( conceived by Steinman and executed by Richard Corben ) and decided he had to have it before he even heard the music.

While Steinman's fans acclaim it as his biggest musical success, about 70 % of the musical score written by Steinman was recycled from his earlier projects, mainly from his less-known shows like The Dream Engine and The Confidence Man ( co-written with Ray Errol Fox ), although it also features music from his widely known records like " Total Eclipse of the Heart " ( remade as " Totale Finsternis "), the melody, but not the lyric, from a Bat Out Of Hell II song called " Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are " ( remade as " Die unstillbare Gier ") and " Original Sin ", originally written for Pandora's Box album of the same name and later sung by " Meat Loaf " in Welcome to the Neighborhood ( parts of which were remade as " Gott Ist Tot " and " Einladung Zum Ball ").

According to Steinman, she also recorded a demo of " It's All Coming Back to Me Now ," later a hit for Celine Dion in 1996, in connection with this album, but her take was passed over in favor of fellow vocalist Elaine Caswell's.

A different version of the song " Nowhere Fast " ( originally intended to have been used by Fire Inc., but dropped in favor of a better version also by Steinman ) was also released on Meat Loaf's album Bad Attitude ( 1984 ).

The album was produced by Eldritch and Larry Alexander, with contributions from Jim Steinman on two songs, one of them being " This Corrosion ".

The new line-up kicked off with the Vision Thing album, released in October 1990, produced by Eldritch ( one song, the single " More ", was a co-production and co-written with Steinman ).

For a period in 1983, two songs written and produced by Steinman held the top two positions on the Billboard singles chart, with " Total Eclipse of the Heart " at number one, and " Making Love out of Nothing at All ", performed by Air Supply, at number two.

II included the song " Read ' Em and Weep ", written and produced by Steinman.

The soundtrack included two songs written and produced by Steinman.

Steinman is credited for producing all of the tracks on Billy Squier's 1984 album Signs of Life, and Barbra Streisand's album of the same year, Emotion, featured " Left in the Dark ", which Steinman wrote and produced.

Steinman produced the track and is credited with writing the music, and Dean Pitchford for writing the lyric.

In 1985 Steinman wrote and produced a theme song for WWF performer Hulk Hogan.

Steinman produced the track " Love Can Make You Cry ", written by Michael Kehr, Don Kehr and Ian Hunter, for the soundtrack album for the 1986 film Iron Eagle.

Steinman produced every track on the album.

The track " This Corrosion " was produced by Steinman, and the track " Dominion / Mother Russia " was co-produced by Steinman, along with Larry Alexander and Andrew Eldritch.

The soundtrack album for the 1989 film Rude Awakening included two tracks produced by Steinman.

In 1995, Bonnie Tyler released the album Free Spirit, featuring two tracks produced and written by Steinman.

Celine Dion's 1996 album Falling Into You included the song " It's All Coming Back to Me Now ", written and produced by Steinman.

Steinman produced two tracks for films in the late 1990s.

This album was produced by Steinman, as usual with Steven Rinkoff.

Many of the various productions of Tanz der Vampire have had cast recordings released, some of them produced by Steinman, along with other co-producers.

These were the only covers of Meat's from " Bad For Good " that were produced by Steinman ;

In January 2012, it was announced that Jones is working with songwriter / producer Jim Steinman on a heavy metal version of " The Nutcracker.

In 2009 a new version of Vampires Rock was created, called Vampires Rock Christmas, and Willcox was back in her role as the Killer Queen, alongside the writer and one of the stars of the show, Steve Steinman.

The new version, described by Steinman to the press as " a big, Wagnerian musical with lots of humor [...] a lot of it is pure Mel Brooks and a lot of it Anne Rice " and to the by-invitation-only audience as a musical for " people who think musicals suck ," was met with a mixed reception.

" Another unfortunate side-effect of the changing material was that with Steinman out of the picture, there was no one around to write new lyrical material as necessary in some cases, and so the English version ( of necessity ) borrowed a lot of new material from Steinman's lyrics for the previous English versions of what songs were recycled in the show ( see song list below ).

Music and lyrics for the English version were officially credited to Jim Steinman, and the English book was officially credited to Jim Steinman, Michael Kunze and David Ives.

Three official remixes have been made for their version as well as a remix done by Jim Steinman, which was ultimately rejected by the record label but has surfaced on the Internet.

Even after they made the cuts, Steinman sent his own version to the stations.

A live cover was performed by Céline Dion on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1994, which resulted in a studio version, produced by Jim Steinman, for her extremely successful 1996 album Falling into You.

She collaborated with talented craftsman such as Jim Steinman and David Foster who helped her devise more adult contemporary songs.

He wanted to bring it to New York ( either Broadway or Central Park ), but balked when his Amherst faculty advisor explained to Papp that, contrary to Papp's published claim, Steinman was never threatened with " near-expulsion " from the college.

In 1974, Steinman worked with college friend Barry Keating on a musical called Rhinegold, based on Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, writing the music and co-writing the script.

One of the actors cast in this show was Marvin Lee Aday, who went by the name Meat Loaf, with whom Steinman later collaborated.

While preparing the show, Steinman and Meat Loaf, who were touring with the National Lampoon show, felt that three songs were " exceptional " and Steinman began to develop them as part of a seven-song set they wanted to record as an album.

Steinman proceeded with the album, released as Bad for Good in 1981.

Steinman was this time credited as co-producer with Todd Rundgren for all but one track.

Steinman was credited as co-producer with Jimmy Iovine for the song " Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through ".

On the title track, " All of the Good Ones Are Taken ", Steinman is credited with " assistance ".

In 1984, Steinman was hired by and worked briefly with the rock band Def Leppard on some tracks that were intended for a Def Leppard album.

However, Steinman was fired, and the recording work he made with the band was not released.

According to Steinman in an interview, Andrew Lloyd Webber approached him to write lyrics for The Phantom of the Opera because Lloyd Webber felt that his " dark obsessive side " fit in with the project.

This album was the first time Steinman worked with Steven Rinkoff, who was a recording engineer on this album.

Around 1992, Steinman worked with the punk band Iron Prostate, which featured guitarist and writer George Tabb.

The group reportedly dissolved while working with Steinman on what was to be their second album.

Tabb's website has shared a recording of the song " Bring Me The Head of Jerry Garcia ", with Steinman credited as executive producer.