NEW YORK -- Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf's bestselling "Bat Out Of Hell" debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler, has died.Bill Steinman told The Associated Press that his brother died Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time.
It has reached 14-time platinum status by the RIAA, which is equivalent to selling 14 million albums in the U-S alone. He also worked on 2006's "Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose," which closed the "Bat Out of Hell" trilogy. Steinman was responsible for Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which topped the Billboard charts in 1983 and earned Tyler a Grammy nomination.
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