Biography

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1645 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

In 1997, Steinberg co-wrote the track "One & One" with Nowels and Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo for Edyta Górniak, and the song became a hit in Europe and Asia. Górniak became the first Polish singer on the Music & Media's European Radio Top 50 airplay chart.

In his mid-20s, he formed the group Billy Thermal, which eventually signed to Richard Perry's Planet Records. Their breakthrough occurred in 1980 when Linda Ronstadt heard their album and decided to record their song "How Do I Make You?" for her 1980 Mad Love album. The album went to the top three on the charts and went platinum, and Ronstadt's version of their song reached the top 10.

Steinberg and his writing partner Tom Kelly were inducted as a team into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2011.[.

When the song "Like a Virgin" was played for Warner Bros., executives thought it would be perfect for Madonna. Steinberg later recalled writing the lyric in 1983 after a failed relationship, saying that he had genuinely felt that he'd "made it through the wilderness" and that he was "beat, incomplete". Madonna's version of the song was No. 1 for six weeks in the United States in 1984. It became a worldwide hit and was the title track for her number one album.