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Name:
Steve
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Style:
Acoustic
Age:
58
Joined:
Nov 2, 2008
Latest Activity:
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Buy 'Beyond the Blues' Now at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/st...

Just released Beautiful Sky - a luxuriant ambient CD by "2Steves+Maya" (Steve Stapley - Steve Stewart & Lynda Hayes) available at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/...
About Me:
 
Steve Stapley made his first professional recording at Abbey Road in 1968. A few years later, Steve and his then music partner, Richard Markstein, formed what must have been one of the first experimental world music bands in the UK. The band consisted of two Nigerian drummers and a South African guitarist, with Richard on bass and Steve playing acoustic guitar and singing. Soon afterwards, Steve and Richard got signed as a duo by DJM records - around the time when Elton John was becoming huge - where they remained, recording an album, a series of singles and touring the UK. Pete Brown, poet and author of many of the Cream's classic hits, joined them on percussion and scrabble.

Departing the relatively safe but, for him, increasingly unproductive confines of DJM, Steve played clubs and bars in and around London for the following six or seven sleepless years.

Moving to LA, where he married and became a house-writer for LEM America, and fronted a couple of rock bands, Steve had some success writing songs for movies and writing English lyrics for French legend, Johnny Hallyday's, Gold Album, En VQ, and for the French No.1 single, Casualty of Love.

After five years in California, he and his wife, returned to England, where he started writing jingles and singing for TV commercials. After the sudden loss of his first wife, Steve was introduced by Mike Finesilver co-writer of Arthur Browns iconic, I am the God of Hellfire - to American singer, Lynda Hayes. Steve and Lynda sang a duet on one of Mikes songs, in his well known, Pathway Studio, and fell in love. They now have two sons and live in Northamptonshire. Steve, as well as writing and performing, co-directs multimedia video production company, Paydirt Productions Ltd.

Beyond the Blues was recorded at The Farm in Cambridgeshire and The Old Vicarage in Huntingdonshire. The album was co-produced by Steve Stapley and Steve Stewart.

Lead Vocals: Steve Stapley
Backing Vocals: Steve Stapley & Lynda Hayes
Percussion: Jodi Linscott
Guitars: Steve Stapley
Keyboards: Steve Stapley
Record Label:
CDBaby
Label Type:
Independent
Band Members:
Steve Stapley
Influences:
James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Paul Simon, Ry Cooder, The Band, Bob Marley, Brian Wilson, Bonnie Raitt, Rickie Lee Jones, Little Feat, Albert Collins, JJ Cale, Dr John, The Neville Brothers, The Chieftains, Paul Brady, Ricky Skaggs.
Sounds Like:
James Taylor, Nick Drake, Paul Simon, Ry Cooder, JJ Cale, Paul McCartney.
Country:
United Kingdom
Albums:
Channel Comments
kathmandau (1 week ago)
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls - Joseph Campbell
namaste, my friend,
delamuzica (1 week ago)
HOW ARE YOU?????

HOPE ALL IS WELL....JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU THIS.

LET ME KNOW IF YOU LIKE? COMMENT PLEASE

MUCH LOVE
-DELAMUZICA
crazyworldbigsound (1 month ago)
Happy Holidays from CWBS!
MrDISCOVERY123 (2 months ago)
Hi, Steve,
nice channel :D Cheers!
andreeaweed (2 months ago)
Very nice post
carly90XX (2 months ago)
a big hello from me
kathmandau (2 months ago)
All that we need to know, all the wisdom of the cosmos, we will find in our own heart.--Mother Theresa
blessings and a happy heart to you, my friend,
CG
MsAnto63 (2 months ago)
Ciao e grazie, mi sono iscritta...bellissimo canale!!! Baci da Anto.
mehiko11 (2 months ago)
Greetings from Croatia!
sarmaroof (2 months ago)
Thank you Steve! I appreciate your support!
Recent Activity  
SteveStapleyOfficial Lynda Hayes reads this story, written by Stephen Stapley, from a new ebook, Fables of Fabulous Animals. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-of-Fab...
(4 days ago)
This eBook is available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-of-Fab...
Or http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/fable... Or http://www.barnesandno...   more
 
 
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SteveStapleyOfficial Thank you to all of you who have downloaded my ebook, Fables of Fabulous Animals to your kindle http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-of-Fab...
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Imagens: Marcio Grillo e Carlos Colla Jr
Direção: Carlos Colla Jr
Direção Geral: Daniel Figueiredo

Produção: MusicSolution - http://www.musicsolution....   more
 
 
SteveStapleyOfficial Listen to The Racing Pigeon and The Two Tortoises, from Fables of Fabulous Animals, read by Lynda Hayes and written by Stephen Stapley. Available as an ebook.
(2 weeks ago)
Available from: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-of-Fab...
Lynda Hayes reads The Racing Pigeon and the Two Tortoises from the ebook Fables of Fabulous...   more
 
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