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In his long career, Steve Miller has gone from being one of the first young white West Coast blues-rockers to being one of the biggest-selling pop-rock artists of the seventies and eighties. In 1966, Miller (who was taught guitar at age five by Les P...more

In his long career, Steve Miller has gone from being one of the first young white West Coast blues-rockers to being one of the biggest-selling pop-rock artists of the seventies and eighties. In 1966, Miller (who was taught guitar at age five by Les Paul) moved to California and formed the Steve Miller Blues Band. The band played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and backed up Chuck Berry at the Fillmore. They took the unusual step for a San Francisco band of traveling to London in 1968 to record their first album, Children of the Future. The band had a communal house in San Francisco and rock pro Miller was challenged by the musical scene of which he was a part. The band went on to have a number of top hits in the 1970s, including "Fly Like an Eagle," "Rock 'n Me," and "Take the Money and Run."...less