Biography Dirk Steffens

Dirk Steffens (born May 20, 1950) is a German musician, audio engineer, and record producer.

Steffens studied guitar and piano at the Hamburg Conservatory of Music. He played in the group Beathovens between 1969 and 1971. In 1971, he began his own group Pennywonder which also consisted of Thomas Kuckuck, Jürgen Ehlert, and Enrico Lombardi. In July 1973 he joined the group Birth Control and left them for family concerns in January 1974. He then worked as a guitar instructor and studio musician. In the fall of 1975 Dirk Steffens began to work on his first solo album "The Seventh Step" where he played guitar and got help from Ian Cussick from Scotland who was a member of Lake and Lucifer's Friend for a short time, and Rolf Köhler from Hamburg, at that time in the group To Be. "The Seventh Step" was finished and released in 1976 by Nova, and a second solo album entitled Tollhouse was completed and released by Nova in 1978, also with Dirk Steffens on guitar, and featuring Cussick and Kohler as well as guest guitarist Peter Weihe. Many song titles on his solo albums were referring to personal things happening in his life.

Discography:

Penny Wonder - "Come On-Angel" (single, 1971)

Birth Control - Rebirth (1973), The Best of Birth Control Vol. 2 (1978) and Definitive Collection (1996)

Solo - The Seventh Step (1976) and Tollhouse (1978)

From the late 1970s and onwards, Dirk Steffens was an active and noted record producer in Germany, see the Wikipedia article in the sources for a list of artists and recordings he produced.

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