Jim Steinman: Tributes paid to 'the Wagner of rock'

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Tributes have been paid to US songwriter and producer Jim Steinman, who has died at the age of 73.

Steinman helped to create hits like Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell and Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Tyler told the BBC: “He was such a lovely, funny, kind, supportive, deeply caring person, as well as an incredible songwriter of the most iconic songs.”

Steinman also worked on 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind with Andrew Lloyd