A tireless musician whose idiosyncratic taste and immense production talent made
him one of the most respected if under-the-radar record makers of his time,
Steven Wilson was born on 3 November 1967 in Kingston-upon-Thames, London. He
taught himself numerous musical instruments as a child, and even made his first
experimental forays into recording techniques as a teenager. Claiming Donna
Summer and Pink Floyd as equal lifelong influences, he began Altamont, his first
of many bands, at age 15. Before he was 20 he launched a pair of bands that
began to establish him, the prog-orien...