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Steve Stevens
US guitarist and songwriter
United States • b. 1959-05-05
Steve Stevens is credited on 1,188 releases across 308 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1982–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,188
Pressings credited
308
Albums
5
Decades active
533
In collections
Biography
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. He is also a television personality on the E! show Married to Rock, alongside his wife, Josie Stevens. In 2025, Stevens was nominated for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside Idol, and later inducted with him in 2026.
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Credited work
1,188 releases · 308 albums · active 1982–2025
- Performance · 2,753
- Other credits · 201
- Production · 99
- Engineering · 15
Studios: Loop Dance Constructions Studios · Studio Marcadet · Studio Guillaume Tell · Skyline Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Bad
1987

Rebel Yell
1983

Top Gun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1986

Billy Idol
1982

Vital Idol
1985

Whiplash Smile
1986

Here's To Future Days
1985

Idol Songs - 11 Of The Best
1988

Try This
2003

Greatest Hits
2001

Scream
2017

The Essential Michael Jackson
2005

This Side Of Paradise
1986

Dirty Diana
1988

Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm
1988

Eyes Without A Face
1984

Aisles
2021

Atomic Playboys
1989

Digital Noise Alliance
2022

Idolize Yourself (The Very Best Of Billy Idol)
2008

Top Gun (Music From The Motion Picture)
2024

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
2024

Melodies On Hiatus
2023
Exposed
1993
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Billy Idol
- Scooter
- Juno Reactor
- Michael Jackson
- Thompson Twins
- Guildo Horn & Die Orthopädischen Strümpfe
- Bozzio Levin Stevens
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