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Billy Steinberg
Birth name
William Endfield Steinberg
Born
(1950-02-26) February 26, 1950 (age 74)
Occupation(s)
Songwriter
musician
record producer
Musical artist
William Endfield Steinberg (born February 26, 1950) is an American songwriter. He achieved his greatest success in the 1980s with songwriting partner Tom Kelly; together they wrote or co-wrote the No. 1 hits "Like a Virgin" by Madonna (1984), "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (1986), "Eternal Flame" by the Bangles (1989), "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston (1987), and "Alone" (covered by Heart in 1987). They also wrote or co-wrote the hit songs "I Drove All Night" (recorded by various artists, initially recorded by Roy Orbison in 1987 but first released by Cyndi Lauper in 1989), "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls (1990), and "I'll Stand by You" by The Pretenders (1994).
After Kelly retired from music in the 1990s, Steinberg collaborated with other songwriters. With Rick Nowels and Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo he wrote the hit songs "Falling Into You" (covered by Celine Dion) and "One & One". He has written hit songs with Josh Alexander including "All About Us" by t.A.T.u. (2005), "Too Little Too Late" by JoJo (2006), "Over It" by Katharine McPhee (2007), and "Give Your Heart a Break" by Demi Lovato (2012).
in California, and Bard College in New York. Steinberg is Jewish. In his mid-20s, he formed the group Billy Thermal, which eventually was signed to Richard...
Your Room" and number one "Eternal Flame", both written by Hoffs with BillySteinberg and Tom Kelly. Following tensions and resentment of Hoffs's perceived...
from her second studio album, The High Road (2006). It was written by BillySteinberg, Josh Alexander and Ruth-Anne Cunningham, and produced by the former...
featured several songs Hynde co-wrote with the songwriting team of BillySteinberg and Kelly, who wrote several hits for other musicians. That collaboration...
the album. The song was written and produced by Josh Alexander and BillySteinberg. "Give Your Heart a Break" incorporates drums, violin and strings....
as well as their biggest-selling single "Eternal Flame". Co-writer BillySteinberg came up with the title after Hoffs told him about the band's recent...
(Goodrum, Lukather) – 5:35 "It Looks Like Rain" (Tom Kelly, Lukather, BillySteinberg) – 4:21 "Steppin' on Top of Your World" (Kortchmar, Lukather) – 5:41...
single on November 14, 2006. Written by JoJo, BillySteinberg, and Josh Alexander and produced by Steinberg and Alexander, it was the first single of JoJo's...
across the Atlantic with seasoned musicians and songwriters such as BillySteinberg and Ellen Shipley. In 1994, Sony Soho Square released two singles,...
3:35 "Good Girls Don't" (Doug Fieger) – 3:13 "How Do I Make You" (BillySteinberg) – 2:23 "Refugee" (Tom Petty, Mike Campbell) – 3:07 "Frustrated" (Berton...
(1987) on October 12, 1987 by Arista Records. The song was written by BillySteinberg and Tom Kelly and produced by Narada Michael Walden. Commercially,...
Madonna's original. The track was written by Yankovic, Tom Kelly and BillySteinberg, the latter two are credited as co-writers due to the "Like a Virgin"...
All Night" is a song written and composed by American songwriters BillySteinberg and Tom Kelly and originally intended for Roy Orbison. Orbison recorded...
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