According to longtime manager David Sonenberg, Steinman had serious cardiac health problems around 2004, but has been in good health since.

Steinman and Meat Loaf had immense difficulty finding a record company willing to sign them.

It had an orchestral score composed by Steinman, and orchestrated by his frequent collaborator Steve Margoshes.

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.

Like much of Steinman's work, the show includes adaptation ( or, recycling ) of material Steinman had released before.

In October 2000, a tentative fall 2001 opening was announced, along with the rather surprising declaration that Steinman himself would serve as the show's director, a somewhat off-putting notion due to the fact that Steinman had never directed any shows, much less one of this size and scale, in his career.

Attempting to reassure doubters, Steinman asserted in interviews that " Half the show Vienna I had to talk Polanski into doing, and did it behind his back a lot.

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.

When the reviews came out, Jim Steinman made a show of his disapproval of the project by not attending opening night and publicly distancing himself from the show that had resulted from this " too many cooks " approach: " The show that I wrote is not at the Minskoff.

According to Meat Loaf, Steinman had given the song, along with " Making Love ( Out of Nothing At All )", to Meat Loaf for his album Midnight at the Lost and Found ; however, Meat Loaf's record company refused to pay for Steinman and he wrote separate songs himself.

Among other credits, Dodd, Sherwood, and Troyer formed the nucleus of the impromptu band Fire Inc., created by Steinman to perform two songs he had written for the Walter Hill " rock and roll fable " Streets of Fire.

" Tanz der Vampire " had great success in Europe and consisted of several songs from Jim Steinman.

Some of its members had previously worked with Steinman, in the ensemble Fire Inc., on the album Bat Out of Hell, on live shows and on other studio recordings.

Foley had worked with Steinman on Bat out of Hell, whereas Wilde had been in his Fire Inc. group.

In one of his regular lectures, Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman spoke about studying Kabbalah, and related that the Chazon Ish had vast knowledge in Kabbalah.

The song is a full 12 minutes, and Steinman broke down when executives advised him that he had to cut it down to get radio play.

Crosby and her partner Stuart Emerson had moved to Los Angeles to work with Jim Steinman, who became their manager.

In the early 1990s, Crosby sent songwriter and producer Jim Steinman some demos of songs she had written with Emerson.

In the early 1990s, Crosby sent songwriter and producer Jim Steinman some demos of songs she had written with Emerson.

This was the first commercially released recording of a song written by Steinman.

The book and lyrics were written by Ray Errol Fox, the music by Steinman.

It included a spoken word segment called " Shadows on the Freeway ", written and recited by Steinman.

All of the songs on the album were written by 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 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.

Four of the songs on the album were written by Steinman.

As of 2009, this 1993 single, and the album containing it, are the most recent new song or project written entirely by Steinman to achieve major, chart topping success.

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

As of 2009, Boyzone's 1998 recording of " No Matter What " is the most recent new song or project written at least in part by Steinman, or to contain any new work of his at all, to achieve major, chart topping success.

In 1983, they released their " Greatest Hits " album with a new single, " Making Love out of Nothing at All ", written by Jim Steinman.

* " Man of Steel " ( song ), a song written by Jim Steinman and performed by Meat Loaf and The Neverland Express

" Paradise by the Dashboard Light " is a song written by Jim Steinman.

In his demo of the song " Wonderful Toys " written for the aborted Batman musical, Jim Steinman does a parody of Eminem, which includes the lines " My name is — my name is — my names is — José Jiménez !".

Two Wagnerian rock songs written by Jim Steinman were part of the soundtrack: " Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young " and " Nowhere Fast ", both performed by Fire Inc. with Holly Sherwood as lead vocal.

Music was composed by Jim Steinman and orchestrated by Steve Margoshes, and original German book and lyrics were written by Michael Kunze.

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 ").

" Total Eclipse of the Heart " is a Platinum-certified power ballad, written and produced by Jim Steinman, and recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her Platinum-plus studio album Faster Than the Speed of Night.

The song was entirely written by Jim Steinman.