Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Chapters: Geoff Emerick, Glyn Johns, Steven Wilson, Alan Parsons, James Guthrie, Graham Blyth, Nigel Godrich, Alan Blumlein, Clive Painter, George Shilling, Nick Launay, David Rohl, Richard James Burgess, Maurice Jay, Colin Richardson, David Richardson, Norman Smith, Jon Hiseman, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Jonny Maudling, Andy Sneap, Hugh Padgham, Big Mick, Peter Handford, Andy Johns, Phil Harding, Del Palmer, Simon Efemey, Martin Rushent, Mike "Clay" Stone, Mike Hedges, John Burns, Mike Dred, Warren Huart, William Sansome Tucker, James F. Reynolds, Bob Pridden, Alex Newport, John Loder, Paul Kendall, Robin Sylvester, Jay Reynolds, Iain Burgess, Ed Wynne, Phil Thurston, Chris Kimsey, Nick Hemingway, Dave Eringa, Harry Sutcliffe, Richard Norris, Ken Scott, Andrew Fryer, John Pantry, Ted Kendall, Mark Stent, David Hentschel, Peter Mew, Bill Price, John Cornfield, John Mackswith, Chris Huston, Roger Cotton, Stephen Lipson, Gary Langan, Julian Mendelsohn, Marie Killick, Andrew Jackson, Mark Saunders, Barry Upton, Greg Hunter, Tim Palmer, Derek Lawrence, Eliot James, Neill King, Cam Blackwood, Calum Malcolm, George Peckham, Eric Holland, Rex Brough, Malcolm Hill, John Linsley Hood, Dom Morley, Simon Thornton, Liam Watson, Russ Russell, David Batchelor, Phil McDonald, David Bascombe, Viv Fisher, Dave Hedger, Paul Read, Richard Yeoman-Clark, Peter Baxandall, Cenzo Townshend, Charlie Watkins. Excerpt: Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is a British musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. He is involved in many other bands and musical projects both as musician and producer (including No-Man and Blackfield) and also maintains a solo career. Wilson is a self-taught producer, audio engineer, guitar and keyboard player, playing other instruments as and where required (including bass guitar, concert harp, hammer dulcimer and flute). He used to split his living time between Tel Aviv and London, UK, but he no longer holds a permanent residence in Tel Aviv Born in Kingston Upon Thames, London, England (but brought up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England from the age of 6), Wilson discovered his love for music around the age of 8. It began one Christmas when his parents bought presents for each other in the form of LPs. His father and mother received Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon and Donna Summer's Love to Love You Baby, respectively. The young Steven spent much of his childhood listening to these albums in "heavy rotation", as he once commented. Both LPs would influence his future song writing. He claims "...in retrospect I can see how they are almost entirely responsible for the direction that my music has taken ever since." His interest in Pink Floyd led him towards experimental/psychedelic conceptual progressive rock (as exemplified by Porcupine Tree and Blackfield), and Donna Summer's trance-inflected grooves inspired the initial musical approach of No-Man (Wilson's long-running collaboration with fellow musician and vocalist Tim Bowness), although the band would later develop a more meditative and experimental Talk Talk-esque approach. As a child, Steven was forced to learn the guitar, but he did not enjoy it; his parents eventually stopped paying for lessons. However, at the age of 11 Wilson rescued a nylon string classical guitar from his attic and started to experimen
