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Steve Stevens

Steve Stevens

American guitarist

Steve Stevens (born Steven Bruce Schneider; May 5, 1959) is an American guitarist. He is best known as Billy Idol's guitarist and songwriting collaborator,[1] and for his lead guitar work on the theme to Top Gun – "Top Gun Anthem" – for which he won a Grammy in 1987: Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

For persons of a similar name, see Stephen Stevens (disambiguation).
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Stevens has played for Michael Jackson, Ric Ocasek, Robert Palmer, and many others.[2] He was in Vince Neil's band from 1992 to 1994, touring and recording on his album Exposed and was a founding member of the supergroup Bozzio Levin Stevens, which released Black Light Syndrome in 1997 and Situation Dangerous in 2000. He brought Spanish flamenco guitar stylings to the song "Pistolero" (1999) for the trance group Juno Reactor. During 2012–2016, Stevens appeared with Kings of Chaos. His "Steve Stevens" group headlined the closing performance at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany, in April 2016. He is also a television personality on the E! show Married to Rock, alongside his wife, Josie Stevens.

Career

His solo album releases include Atomic Playboys (1989),[1] Flamenco a Go-Go (1999), and Memory Crash (2008).

Discography

Stevens (left) and Billy Idol in 2003

Studio albums

with Billy Idol

with Ric Ocasek

with Jerusalem Slim

  • Jerusalem Slim (1992)

with Vince Neil

with Bozzio Levin Stevens

with Kyosuke Himuro

  • I·De·A (1997)
  • The One Night Stands Live (1998)
  • Mellow (2000)
  • Beat Haze Odyssey (2000)
  • Follow the Wind (2003)

with Deadland Ritual

Guest appearances

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Soundtrack appearances

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References

  1. [1]
    Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 343. ISBN 0-85112-656-1.
  2. [2]
    Prato, Greg. "Biography: Steve Stevens". AllMusic. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
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