Born : 14-MAY-56 in Kendal
1976
He Joined his first band "The Last Call". This was a school band.
1978
He made his first record appearance with the band "Harlow" is was only a promo 7" called "Harry de Mazzio".
Spring 1981:
Steve joined the Europeans
Melody Maker
'82:
One thing that's no accident is the band's name. Founder members Ferg, Geoff and
guitarist Colin Woore started playing together in Glasgow 11 years ago,
eventually arriving in London as 'Motion Pictures' in May 1980. After a few
haphazard months, Steve Hogarth joined them from the Newtrinos, and the
Europeans were born.
Their first appearance on record was with John Otway on his album "All Balls And No Willy" which was recorded in 1982 with "The Europeans" as backing band.
The Europeans made 2 studio albums, 1 live album and a couple of 7" and 12" singles.
1986
After leaving the Europeans Steve and Colin Woore formed the band How We Live. This band only made 1 album "Dry Land" and a few singles.
1983 - 1988:
After Steve left the Europeans till he joined Marillion in 1989 he did session work for a couple of Artists:
1983
'Annabel Lamb' - "ONCE BITTEN" piano on 'Divided The Spoils of Love'
1985
'Do-Re-Mi' - "DOMESTIC HARMONY", piano
1986 'The The' - "INFECTED", piano on 'Heartland'
1987 'Sharon O'Neill' - "DANCED IN THE FIRE", backing vocals
1987 'Julian Cope' - "ST. JULIAN", backing vocals
1987 'Blue Yonder' - "BLUE YONDER", backing vocals
1988 'Toni Childs' - "UNION", keyboards
February 2nd 1989
He does Vocals en additional Keyboards for this British Band, and lately he even does some live guitar work.
February 1990
Charity project supergroup formed by Steve Hackett to try and raise awareness/raise money to help stop the repatriation of the 'Boat People' in Hong Kong. With Fish and Steve Hogarth on Vocals, Steve Rothery on Guitar (And many more artists from other bands).
27 February 1997
His first solo album is released under the name "H". Till now he only released one studio album called "Ice Cream Genius" and a double CD "Live Body Live Spirit".
Autumn 1998
Chucho Merchan was commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to write this collection of songs to commemorate the 1998 International Year of the Ocean and to help raise global awareness of 'planet ocean'. Steve participated on 3 tracks of this album "Ocean Songs (A musical celebration of the 1998 international year of the Ocean)"
1998
Steve Hogarth does the vocals (in French) for one song during a 1995 concert of this French band "Ange". This song can be found on a CD you got when you subscribed to "un pied dans la marge" the magazine of the Ange fan club.