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Steve Hillage

Background information
Birth name Stephen Simpson Hillage
Born 2 August 1951 Chingford, London
Genre(s) Rock, Electronica
Instrument(s) guitar
Years active 1967 – present
Associated acts Uriel, Khan, Gong, System 7
Website http://www.a-wave.com/system7/

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History

Early career

Hillage was born Stephen Simpson Hillage in Chingford, London, England on 2 August 1951. Chingford is a town in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is a suburban development situated northeast of Charing Cross. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 338 BC - A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January While still at school, he joined his first band, a blues rock band called Uriel, with Dave Stewart, Mont Campbell and Clive Brooks. Uriel were an English psychedelic/blues band formed in 1968 consisting of Steve Hillage (guitar/vocals Dave Stewart (organ Clive Brooks David Lloyd Stewart (born Waterloo, London, 30 December 1950) is a Musician currently recording with Singer Barbara Hugo Martin Montgomery Campbell, formerly known as Mont Campbell, now Dirk Campbell (born 30 December 1950 in Ismalia Egypt) is a Clive Colin Brooks (born 28 December 1949, in Bow East London is a drummer best known for his work in the English Progressive rock band The band split up in 1968 with the other members going on to form Egg, but they briefly re-united under assumed names to record the album Arzachel in 1969. See also The Egg (funk band for the electronic band Egg were an English Progressive rock band formed in January 1969 Uriel were an English psychedelic/blues band formed in 1968 consisting of Steve Hillage (guitar/vocals Dave Stewart (organ Clive Brooks Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hillage also guested on Egg's 1974 album The Civil Surface. See also The Egg (funk band for the electronic band Egg were an English Progressive rock band formed in January 1969 The Civil Surface is Egg ’s third and final album It was released in 1974

In 1969, Hillage began studies at Kent University in Canterbury, befriending local bands Caravan and Spirogyra and occasionally jamming with them. Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair This article refers to the British folk band For the American jazz fusion band see Spyro Gyra. Meanwhile he wrote songs and, by late 1970, had accumulated enough material for an album. Caravan put him in touch with their manager Terry King, who got Hillage signed with Deram on the basis of a demo of his material recorded with the help of Egg (band). Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair See also The Egg (funk band for the electronic band Egg were an English Progressive rock band formed in January 1969 In early 1971, Hillage formed Khan with bassist/vocalist Nick Greenwood, formerly of Crazy World Of Arthur Brown. Khan was an English Progressive rock band of the Canterbury Scene during 1971-1972 The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is a Psychedelic rock band of Arthur Brown. Although future Gong and Hatfield and the North drummer Pip Pyle was involved in the early stages, the line-up finally settled with the inclusion of organist Dick Henningham and drummer Eric Peachey (ex-Dr K's Blues Band), both of whom had recently collaborated on Greenwood's solo project Cold Cuts, recorded in California in 1970 but belatedly released in 1972. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. Hatfield and the North was an experimental Canterbury scene Rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975 with some reunions thereafter Phillip "Pip" Pyle ( 4 April 1950 - 28 August 2006) was an English -born drummer from

Following a series of concerts throughout 1971, several of them supporting labelmates Caravan, Khan began recording their debut album in November, by which time Henningham had left, forcing Hillage to bring in his former bandmate Dave Stewart to play the keyboard parts. Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair By the time Space Shanty came out in May 1972, Canadian Val Stevens (formerly of Toronto's popular soul-rock band Grant Smith & The Power) had filled the vacancy, making his debut on a short European tour (including a televised appearance at the Montreux Festival) and continuing with a UK tour supporting Caravan in June. Space Shanty is the debut and only album by the short-lived Canterbury scene band Khan. This article refers to the Canadian singer For other people of the same name see Grant Smith (disambiguation. Caravan are an English band from the Canterbury area founded by former Wilde Flowers members David Sinclair, Richard Sinclair

By then, musical disagreements between Hillage and Greenwood culminated with the latter's departure. Hillage decided to form a new line-up with a slightly different direction, retaining the services of Peachey and asking Stewart back (Egg having recently broken up), and adding Nigel Griggs (later of Split Enz) on bass. See also The Egg (funk band for the electronic band Egg were an English Progressive rock band formed in January 1969 Nigel Griggs (born August 18, 1949, in Hatfield, England) is a musician who played bass guitar in Split Enz. Split Enz was a successful New Zealand band during the 1970s and early 1980s featuring Phil Judd and brothers Tim Finn and Neil Finn. New compositions by Hillage and Stewart were added to the repertoire, including "I Love Its Holy Mystery", which would form the basis of Hillage's later epic "Solar Musick Suite". Unfortunately, neither manager Terry King nor label Decca showed much faith in the new music, leaving Hillage with no choice but to break up the band in October 1972.

Steve Hillage playing Hyde Park, 1974
Steve Hillage playing Hyde Park, 1974

Hillage promptly joined Kevin Ayers' new live band Decadence, participating in Ayers' 1973 album Bananamour (Harvest, May 1973) (his solo on "Shouting In A Bucket Blues" was particularly memorable) and touring the UK and France for two months. Kevin Ayers (born 16 August 1944 in Herne Bay, Kent) is an English Songwriter and major influential force in the English Bananamour is the fourth studio album by Kevin Ayers and it featured some of his most accessible recordings including "Shouting in a Bucket Blues" Having in the meantime become a fan of Gong, Hillage stayed in France after the tour to join the band. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. In January 1973 he took part in the sessions for Flying Teapot, the first instalment of the "Radio Gnome" trilogy, and soon after graduated to full-time membership. The 'classic' line-up of Gong was now in place, with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Didier Malherbe, Tim Blake, Mike Howlett and Pierre Moerlen, and recorded two further albums, Angels Egg and You, before disintegrating in 1975. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. YOU' ' is a South African magazine which is the English version of the Afrikaans family magazine Huisgenoot.

When Allen, the band's founder and mastermind, left in April 1975, Hillage took over leadership but found this position increasingly uncomfortable, and by the year's end had jumped ship to launch his solo career, his motivation to do so fuelled by the success of his solo album Fish Rising, recorded while still in Gong and featuring most of his bandmates. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. His next effort L album was recorded in the USA using musicians from Todd Rundgren's Utopia, and on its release Hillage formed a touring band which toured to critical and public acclaim in late 1976. L is the twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet. Its name in English is el or occasionally ell (ɛl Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American Musician During the latter half of the 1970s, Hillage made a name for himself as a guitarist and prog-rock / fusion composer and performer in the post Hendrix / pre-punk scene. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter 1977's Motivation Radio, with its shorter tracks, marked a departure from the long instrumental workouts of previous efforts, but 1978's Green, co-produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, was something of a return to his earlier, spacier work. Green is a Color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a Wavelength of roughly 520–570- nm. Pink Floyd are Nicholas Berkeley "Nick" Mason (born 27 January 1944 in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England) is the Drummer for Pink Floyd.

These 1970s works (tacitly in collaboration with his longtime girlfriend Miquette Giraudy) blended complex studio production techniques with dreamscape anthems and hooky, progressive passages of new world lydian electric fusion. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. Miquette Giraudy is a keyboard player best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. With lyrics about "electric Gypsies", Hillage was seen as something of a hippie figure, and his sales took a fall with the arrival of Punk rock. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world Hillage himself was somewhat enthusiastic about the energy and freedom of Punk rock and the CD version of his 1979 album Open includes the unambiguously punky 1988 Aktivator (which originally appeared on the fourth studio side of the live album [Live Herald), whilst other songs on Open (such as "Getting In Tune", and "Don't Dither Do It") have an identifiable, if diluted, punk flavor. Hillage spent time in the Ladbroke Grove area of London, home of the UK Underground and worked with Nik Turner founder member of Hawkwind (one of the original Underground Community Bands). Notting Hill is an area in West London, England close to the north-western corner of Hyde Park, and lying within the Royal Borough of Kensington and London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. This is about the 1960s cultural movement For the tube train system see London Underground. Nik Turner (born Nicholas Turner 28 August 1940, in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is a British musician best known as a founding member of Hawkwind are a British rock band, one of the earliest Space rock groups

Later career

During the 1980s, Hillage worked as a record producer, working for artists such as It Bites, Simple Minds, Cock Robin and Robyn Hitchcock. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing It Bites are a Progressive rock and pop fusion band formed in Egremont, Cumbria, England in 1982 Simple Minds are a rock band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s Cock Robin is a US Pop-rock band, mostly popular in the 1980s particularly in Europe where they were to become famous Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is an English Singer-songwriter and guitarist He returned to producing in the 90s, working on The Charlatans self-titled disc in 1995. The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are a British Alternative rock band

After hearing the likes of The Orb playing his 1979 ambient record Rainbow Dome Musick, Hillage teamed up with Giraudy again in the early 1990s to form their own ambient dance act: System 7. The Orb are an English Electronic music group known for popularising Chill out music in the 1990s and spawning the genre of Ambient house. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Rainbow Dome Musick - released 1979 Contributing artists Steve Hillage Miquette Girandy Rupert Atwill The 1990s collectively refers to the years between and including 1990 and 1999 System 7 are a British ambient dance band Due to Apple Inc 's trademark on System 7 for Mac OS, they are known as They soon became part of the underground dance scene in London. Hillage also produced in the 1990s a raï musical show called '1, 2, 3 Soleils', featuring Algerian singers Faudel, Rachid Taha and Khaled he also arranged many songs of Latifa. Raï (راي is a form of folk music, originated in Oran Algeria from Bedouin Shepherds mixed with Spanish, French, Algeria ( ar [[Arabic]] الجزائر, Al Jaza'ir ælʤæˈzæːʔir Amazigh: ⴷⵥⴰⵢⴻⵔ Dzayer) officially the People's Faudel (فضيل, born Faudel Belloua (فضيل بيلوى on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French singer of Algerian descent Rachid Taha ( Arabic: رشيد طه (born 1958 in Oran, Algeria) is an French - Algerian Musician His music is influenced Khaled Hadj Brahim (born 29 February 1960) better known as Khaled (خالد حاج ابراهيم is a Raï singer-songwriter and Latifa Bint Alayah Al Arfaoui ( لطيفه بنت عليه العرفاوي) (born February 14, 1961 in Manouba, Tunisia)

Since the mid-1990s, Hillage has been an important contributor to Rachid Taha's music, as guitarist and producer.

In November 2006, he made a surprise return to the Gong fold when he and Giraudy performed at the Gong Unconvention in Amsterdam, as the "Steve Hillage Band" (playing material from the 70's albums - mainly from Fish Rising, which was itself essentially Hillage using most of the rest of the Gong band as his own), as System 7, Hillage and Giraudy's current set up, and also as members of Gong. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. Gong is a progressive / Psychedelic rock band formed by Australian Musician Daevid Allen. This participation in the Gong band seems likely to be more of a one-off than a continuing reformation, however. At the Unconvention, Hillage also contributed to the "Glissando Orchestra", a one hour plus performance where a number of guitarists (ten or more at some stages, including Hillage and Gong lead man Daevid Allen) all played one long sustained undulating note.

In January 2007, four of his albums - Fish Rising, L, Motivation Radio and Rainbow Dome Musick - were released in the UK remastered on CD, each, except the latter, with previously unreleased bonus tracks.

In February 2007, Green, Live Herald, Open and For To Next/And Not Or followed, similarly remastered with bonus content.

"Light in the Sky", from his 1977 album Motivation Radio, is used as the theme for The Sunday Night Project on Channel 4. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began

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