Jim Steinman, hitmaker for Meat Loaf and Celine Dion, dies aged 73

Jim Steinman speaks at the 2012 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jim Steinman, the Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf’s best-selling Bat Out Of Hell debut album, has died aged 73, his brother said.

Bill Steinman told The Associated Press that his brother died on Monday from kidney failure and was ill for some time.