{"id":11328,"date":"2021-04-20T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11328"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T21:55:37","slug":"jim-steinman-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/20\/jim-steinman-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Steinman Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/04\/jim-steinman-dead-obituary-meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell-composer-was-73-1234740340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Singer Bonnie Tyler Remembers \u2018Total Eclipse of the Heart\u2019 Composer Jim Steinman: He Wrote \u201cSome Of The Most Iconic Rock Songs Of All Time\u201d \u2013 Update<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/greg-evans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greg Evans<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lcOxhH8N3Bo?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jim-steinman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jim Steinman<\/a>, the composer and lyricist whose roster of hit records included the huge Bonnie Tyler hit \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d was remembered by the singer as the \u201ctrue genius\u201d behind \u201csome of the most iconic rock songs of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am absolutely devastated to learn of the passing of my long term friend and musical mentor Jim Steinman,\u201d tweeted Tyler, whose other hits composed by Steinman included \u201cHolding Out For A Hero.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJim wrote and produced some of the most iconic rock songs of all time and I was massively privileged to have been given some of them by him. I made two albums with Jim, despite my record company initially thinking he wouldn\u2019t want to work with me. Thankfully they were wrong\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deadline confirmed Steinman\u2019s death with the Connecticut state medical examiner earlier today. The composer, lyricist and producer whose roster of hit records began with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/meat-loaf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meat Loaf<\/a>\u2019s smash 1977 debut album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/bat-out-of-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bat Out of Hell<\/a><\/em>, was 73. A cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/04\/jim-steinman-dead-obituary-meat-loaf-bat-out-of-hell-composer-was-73-1234740340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Singer Bonnie Tyler Remembers \u2018Total Eclipse of the Heart\u2019 Composer Jim Steinman: He Wrote \u201cSome Of The Most Iconic Rock Songs Of All Time\u201d \u2013 Update By\u00a0Greg Evans Jim Steinman, the composer and lyricist whose roster of hit records included the huge Bonnie Tyler hit \u201cTotal Eclipse of the Heart,\u201d was remembered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}