Steve Howe discography

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Steve Howe is an English guitarist, active since 1964. He is best known for his tenures with the rock groups Yes and Asia, including his solo albums.

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Discography

Solo

Studio albums
Live albums

Homebrew series

The Homebrew series consists on compilations of demos and other mostly solo recordings. Some of these recordings were eventually reworked into songs appearing in other solo or group albums, while others are new versions of previous songs.

The Steve Howe Trio

Compilations

Videography

With other bands

With The Syndicats

  • Maybellene / True To Me (1964) Produced by Joe Meek (EMI)
  • Howlin For My Baby/(Tell Me) What To Do (1965), Produced by Joe Meek (EMI)
  • The Horizon, (reached number 17 on the charts) / Crawdaddy Simone (1965) (Steve played on The horizon), Produced by Joe Meek (EMI)
  • The hit song Maybellene, on a 1964 compilation LP On the scene (With The Animals, Georgie Fame, Yardbirds, Mickie Most, Downliners sect. - Columbia/EMI)

With The In Crowd (became Tomorrow)

  • "Why Must They Criticise" / "You're On Your Own" Produced by Roy Pitt. (single, Parlophone R5364, November 1965)
  • "Stop, Wait A Minute" / "I Don't Mind" (single, Parlophone R5328, September 1965)

With Tomorrow

  • My White Bicycle /Claramount Lake (single)
  • Revolution/Three Jolly Little Dwarfs (single)
  • Tomorrow (Parlophone, February 1968) (rééd. Tomorrow featuring Keith West, 1999)
  • 50 Minute Technicolor Dream (RPM 184, 1998)

With Bodast

  • The Early Years - Steve Howe with Bodast (CD 1988 & 1990 - first LP edit in 1969 (CS))

With Yes

Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
  • The New Age of Atlantic (1972)
  • Yesterdays (1975) - Steve plays on America
  • Classic Yes (1981)
  • Yesyears (1991) - 4 CD Boxset
  • Yesstory (1992)
  • Affirmative: The Yes Solo Family Album (1993)
  • Highlights: The Very Best of Yes (1993)
  • Yes, Friends and Relatives (1998)
  • The Best of Yes (1999)
  • Yes, Friends and Relatives Vol. 2 (2000)
  • In a Word: Yes (1969–)(2002)
  • Yes, Friends and Relatives: The Ultimate Collection (2002)
  • The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (2003) - 3 CD Boxset
  • Essentially Yes (2006) - 5 CD Boxset

With Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

With Asia

With GTR

  • GTR (1986)
  • King Biscuit Flower Hour (1997)

With Paul Sutin

With Explorers Club

With Oliver Wakeman

  • The 3 Ages of Magick (2001)

With Dylan Howe

  • Subterranean - New Designs on Bowie's Berlin (2014) - Steve plays koto on Moss Garden

With Virgil Howe

  • Nexus (Inside Out; November 2017) [1] Steve plays guitars throughout the album
  • Lunar Mist (Inside Out; September 2022)

Guest appearances

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References

  1. ↑ "INSIDE OUT MUSIC - : Virgil & Steve Howe - Steve Howe releases statement on forthcoming album 'Nexus'". www.insideoutmusic.com. Archived from the original on 2017-10-13.
  2. ↑ "All My Yesterdays", by Steve Howe, Omnibus Press, 2020, p. 190
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