Bonnie Tyler also paid tribute, saying she was "absolutely devastated" by news of her friend's death.the Welsh singer wroteMulti-million seller
The high-camp, over-the-top production was often imitated but never bettered - including by Steinman himself, although he came close on Bat Out Of Hell's 1993 sequel, which spawned the worldwide number one single, I'd Do Anything For Love .He later won the album of the year Grammy for his work on Celine Dion's Falling Into You; and worked on Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Whistle Down The Wind, which opened in the West End in 1998.
"If you don't go over the top, how are you ever going to see what's on the other side?" he once asked."There is no other songwriter ever like him," Meat Loaf said as Steinman was inducted to the Songwriters' Hall Of Fame in 2012. He followed that up with an original musical, The Dream Engine, which he later described as "a three-hour rock epic with tons of nudity".
The same year, an actor called Marvin Lee Aday auditioned for Steinman's musical More Than You Deserve. The pair struck up a close friendship and, after Aday changed his name to Meat Loaf, they started work on the Bat Out Of Hell project.Steinman and Meat Loaf regularly fell out, but always ended up reconciling
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