James Stevenson

James Stevenson: Biography in Details

Who is James Stevenson?

James Stevenson is an English musician. He is an alternative rock guitarist, at one time a member of the Alarm, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gen X, the Cult, Holy Holy, The International Swingers, and Chelsea.

James Stevenson: Birth, Parents, Ethnicity, Education

Born on October 12, 1958, in New York, James is now 61 yrs old. He grew up in London.

His father’s name is John Stevenson, who was a writer. His mother’s name is unknown.

James has his audition with Chelsea and gets the job at just 18 yrs old when he was still at school. He gets passionate about music in his school days when he was asked by his friend to join their band.

He was also inspired by Mick Ronson. They used to play guitars in their mum’s garage and later learned to play it.

James Stevenson holds British nationality and is of English ethnicity.

Talking about his education, he attended Chiswick School. He studied A-level.

James Stevenson: Career, Professional life

James Stevenson started his career in 1977 firstly working with the London-based punk band, Chelsea.

In early 1981, Gen X broke up and James started to work with Kim Wilde. They release their first album, Kim Wilde, and the second album, Select. They also performed in “Kids in America”.

After that, Stevenson released two singles on RAK Records forming The Hot Club with former Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock.

Stevenson then has performed in various band’s albums like Discover, Kiss of Life, VII, The Thornfield Sessions, Heavenly Bodies, and House of Dolls, Dance Underwater.

He also contributed guitar to the song “Brand New You’re Retro” and various other recordings and has composed music for TV and film.

James Stevenson then has played with the Alarm and Gene Loves Jezebel. He also rejoined Chelsea, performing on their Faster, Cheaper and Better Looking (2006), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (2015), and Mission Impossible (2017) albums.

He also plays in Matlock’s band the Philistines and has contributed to Matlock’s Open Mind and Born Running albums.

In 2011, along with Matlock, he formed the supergroup the International Swingers and released their first full-length album, The International Swingers in 2015.

In January 2013, he released a three-track CD, “The Shape of Things to Come”, and after a year he releases Everything’s Getting Closer to Being Over on his own website.

James was also a second guitarist for their “Electric 13” world tour. The musician is the part of Holy Holy band and performing the music of David Bowie since 2014.

James Stevenson has also played in the 2018 Daphne Guinness album, Daphne And The Golden Chord.

Recently he has adopted a multi-instrumentalist role in The Alarm playing guitar, bass guitar, bass pedals, and a bass/six-string double-neck guitar made for him by Gordon-Smith Guitars.

James Stevenson: Salary, Net Worth

Establishing as a great musician now, his net worth is around $1 million-$5 million. He is fond of motorbikes and guitars and has its collection.

James Stevenson: Rumor and Controversy

James Stevenson has maintained a good relationship with everyone in his personal and professional life. And so, his name is out of all these rumors and controversies.

Body Measurement: Height, Weight

Being in his 60s, James Stevenson is still handsome and charming standing with a height of 5 ft 3 in. Likely, he weighs 75 kg.

He has blond and grey colored hair and blue colored eyes.

 Social Media

James Stevenson is active on Twitter with more than 3.5K followers. Likely, his Facebook page also holds around 6.9K following. He isn’t active on Instagram and Youtube.

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