Composer
Steve Marker
American musician
b. 1959
28 works in the index
- Born
- 1959
- Birthplace
- Minneapolis
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Contemporary
Biography
Steven W. Marker (born March 16, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the co–founder and guitarist of the alternative rock band Garbage.
Previously an audio engineer for the band Fire Town with future Garbage members Duke Erikson and Butch Vig, Marker was responsible for the sourcing of lead singer Shirley Manson for Garbage, following the music video for "Suffocate Me" from Manson's band Angelfish being broadcast during an episode of MTV's 120 Minutes. Impressed, Marker, Vig and Erikson contacted Manson in Scotland, advocating for her to travel to the United States to lay down vocals for, what was at that time, one track. Manson would later provide all vocals for the bands breakthrough debut album Garbage (1995).
With Garbage, Marker has released eight studio albums – Garbage (1995), Version 2.0 (1998), Beautiful Garbage (2001), Bleed Like Me (2005), Not Your Kind of People (2012), Strange Little Birds (2016), No Gods No Masters (2021), and Let All That We Imagine Be the Light (2025) – as well as three compilation albums, recording the 1999 James Bond theme, and have sold over 17 million albums internationally.
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Life and musical career
- Occupations
- guitarist; record producer; composer
- Instruments played
- guitar; musical keyboard
- VIAF ID
- 96938961
- ISNI
- 0000000068247174
- MusicBrainz ID
- 289ea7c8-4bb3-4952-9cb9-e43e8c6bdbb3
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Vocal, Guitar, Piano, Voice
- Genres represented
- Rock
- Works with composition dates
- 0 of 28
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only Happy When It Rains | — | — | — | Guitar, Voice | Rock | 4 |
| Breaking Up The Girl | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 2 |
| Queer | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Special | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Can't Cry These Tears | — | — | — | Guitar | — | 1 |
| Androgyny | — | — | — | Guitar | Rock | 1 |
| Stroke of Luck, A | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Medication | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Temptation Waits | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| When I Grow Up | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Wicked Ways | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Dumb | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| As Heaven is Wide | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Supervixen | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Vow | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Push It | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Dog New Tricks | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Fix Me Now | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| My Lover's Box | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| #1 Crush | — | — | — | Piano, Vocal | — | 0 |
| Hammering in My Head | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| I Think I'm Paranoid | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Milk | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Not My Idea | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Stupid Girl | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| The Trick is to Keep Breathing | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| Sleep Together | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
| You Look So Fine | — | — | — | Vocal | — | 0 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 96938961. Portrait: Rubenfh at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.