Steve Stevens

American guitarist

Born: 5 May 1959
Brooklyn
Country: United States
Active: 1979–
Record labels: Warner Bros. Records
Discography: 2 albums

Biography

Steve Stevens is a jazz musician who plays guitar. Steve Stevens was born on 5 May 1959 in Brooklyn. The music is usually filed under hard rock and new wave. Record labels: Warner Bros. Records. The discography here lists 2 albums, from “Flamenco.A.Go.Go” (1999) to “Memory Crash” (2008). Honours include Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance (1987).

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, and for his lead guitar work on the theme to Top Gun – "Top Gun Anthem" – for which he won the Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance in 1987. Stevens has played for Michael Jackson, Ric Ocasek, Robert Palmer, Michael Monroe and many others. 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 played Spanish flamenco guitar on 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.

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