The award-winning US songwriter Billy Steinberg, who wrote several top hit songs, including Madonna’s Like a Virgin, has died aged 75.
Steinberg wrote some of the biggest pop hits of the 1980s and 1990s and was behind songs performed by singers from Whitney Houston and Celine Dion to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper.
He died following a battle with cancer, his attorney told the Los Angeles Times and BBC News.
“Billy Steinberg’s life was a testament to the enduring power of a well-written song – and to the idea that honesty, when set to music, can outlive us all,” his family said in a statement to the outlets.
Steinberg was born in 1950 and grew up in Palm Springs,…