- 'Weird Al' Yankovic's "Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me" is a style parody of Jim Steinman, rather than a parody of a particular song.
- Best known for the rock songs he has written for Meat Loaf.
- Working on a musical version of "Batman".
- Wrote the music for "Dance of the Vampires", which opened in October 2002 and closed three months later on January 25, 2003. Though the music got good reviews, the critics trashed the rest of the creative team and cast, making this show the biggest failure in Broadway history at a cost of $12 million.
- He made one platinum album as a singer, Bad For Good.
- Welcomed into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
- Was inducted in to the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2012.
- For the musical stage version of Whistle Down The Wind, he teamed with Andrew Lloyd Webber providing lyrics to his score.
- Founded, with Steven Rinkoff, Ravenous Records in 1998.
- While a student at Amherst College he wrote and starred in what he called "an epic rock spectacle," The Dream Engine. It caused a sensation and Joe Papp, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival, purchased the rights at intermission.
- His first professional musical was More Than You Deserve at Josesph Papp's Public Theater in New York.
- Received an honorary Doctorate Degree of Humane Letters from his alma mater, Amherst College, in 2013.
- Grammy-winning songwriter and producer whose records have sold more than 190 million copies worldwide.
- Wrote the score for Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires), a musical staged by Roman Polanski, which opened in Vienna in 1997 to rave reviews and record box office. It has been officially declared "the most successful musical ever to emerge from Continental Europe.".
- Graduated from Amherst College.
- Received a Grammy award as producer for Best Album of the Year, Celine Dion's Falling Into You.
- He was the son of Eleanor (Blefeld), a Latin teacher, and Louis Steinman, who owned a steel distribution warehouse. He was of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
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