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Jim Steinman
Died Today at 73…. Way too young. I just spent some hours tonight watching some work by one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Jim Steinman. He wrote on Broadway and in movies and just about everywhere, and maybe wrote some of the best songs in our lives. You can look up the thousands he wrote and I bet you will go “He wrote that! I didn’t know that!” for half of them. But my favorite writing of his was always the work he did with Meat Loaf, including the two Bat out of Hell albums. My all-time favorite Jim Steinman song is “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”. This…