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Steve Currie

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1981 deaths Road accident deaths in Portugal English bass guitarists English session musicians 1947 births 20th-century English musicians People from Grimsby

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Steve Currie born 1947 played bass for T. Rex from 1970 to 1976. He died 1981.

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Steve Currie (19 May 1947 – 28 April 1981) was born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. He was best known as the bass player and long-term member of the English glam rock band T. Rex.Whilst working for the local Tax office, Currie played with local Grimsby group %22The Rumble Band%22. He joined T. Rex (recently renamed from Tyrannosaurus Rex) as bass guitarist in November 1970 (although the band were still listed as a duo) and continued to play with them until late 1976.He appeared on all of Marc Bolan's most memorable hit singles from %22Hot Love%22 (1971) to %22Laser Love%22 (1976), as well as the albums Electric Warrior (1971) to Dandy in the Underworld (1977). His innovative and, for the time, sophisticated bass playing can be seen to good effect in the movie Born to Boogie.After leaving T. Rex, he went into session work, working for Chris %22Motorbikin'%22 Spedding.He died in a car crash on 28 April 1981, whilst returning to his home near Vale de Parra, Algarve, Portugal. His death came less than four years after T. Rex lead singer Marc Bolan had died in a car crash in Barnes, South West London, and just six months after Steve Took's death. The site where Marc Bolan died has since become a shrine which in 2007 was recognised by the English Tourist Board (Enjoy England) as a site of Rock 'n Roll Importance. Steve Currie is commemorated with a memorial plaque on the steps at Bolan's Rock Shrine, as are Mickey Finn, Steve Took, June Bolan (née Child) (his widow) and later member of T. Rex Dino Dines.

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1947-05-19

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1976-01-01

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1970-01-01

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