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Birth Name: James Richard Steinman
Born: 1 November 1947 Died: 19 April 2021
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Height: 5' 11"
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People I find Inspiring (93 person items)"Jim Steinman was creative to the bone, man. During his youth he fell in love with musicals and developed his own style of writing music, that is Wagnerian rock and especially power ballads. Jim was a very eccentric and baroque personality who always wanted everything to be big and epic: his songs are usually closer to 10 minutes, there are choirs, massive melodramatic fantasy lyrics and the melodies go so over the top even Jim couldn't sing them. The man himself was a great speaker and performer"
Favourite Music Artists (52 person items)"Jim was something of an oddball genius of popular music: on the other hand he was a megalomaniac with brilliant ear for catchy melodies, but at the same time everything he did had this sense of over the top cartoony self-irony that made you either love him or hate him. I did love his music and still do. Sadly, though, the man couldn't really sing, so he was mainly a songwriter, producer and a pianist for other artists. "
