Steven Dearman Clark

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Steven Dearman Clark (born November 23, 1957 in Sheffield ; † October 14, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a British musician , record producer , arranger and songwriter .

Childhood and youth

Steven Dearman Clark was born in 1957 in a suburb of Sheffield, England. His northern English homeland, the scenic and acoustic impressions of the Yorkshire Dales and the industrial city of Sheffield, shaped his musical development and became part of Clark's progressive lifestyle music.

Musical career

In May 1979, Steven Clark began his professional career as a musician. For a decade he toured the world, was a studio and backing musician for groups like The Del Shannon Band or Johnny & The Hurricanes and worked with Alvin Stardust and Shakin 'Stevens . He settled in Hamburg. Here he founded the party rock'n'roll band The Sneekers with four English musicians. In the mid-1980s, Clark began to write his own songs as well as to produce solo artists and bands. He completed numerous productions in his own studio - from jazz and punk rock projects with Colosseum saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith and The Bollock Brothers to rock productions with established German rock bands such as Dirty Money and Running Wild .

In the 1990s, Clark worked for various independent record companies (Public Propaganda, Repertoire Records, Edel SE ) as well as private television stations in Germany ( Sat.1 , RTL ) on instrumental and soundtrack productions before turning back to his own projects. Over the years he has worked extensively as a producer, including for Peter Beil , Goombay Dance Band , Betsy Miller, Eddy Monrow, Ultraglide and Detlef Timm.

Since 2000, Clark has been striving for the district of Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg , where he lived and worked until his death: he launched the “Kirchdorf Rocks” festival and one of his last projects was the rock revue “Traumziel Wilhelmsburg”. Here he spanned the musical arc from baroque blues to German rock, from world hits to his own compositions. Professional musicians played here together with amateur musicians (including the Wilhelmsburg band Feinripp - www.feinripp.info) and a theater group from the Süderelbraum.

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personal data
SURNAME Clark, Steven Dearman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, record producer, arranger and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Sheffield
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2012
Place of death Hamburg