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TIL songwriter Jim Steinman won a court case preventing Meat Loaf from covering one of his songs after the singer claimed it was promised to him and was "furious" when it became a hit for Celine Dion. Meat Loaf would later say the power ballad "was about me and Jim Steinman"

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