Steve Lukather - In Transition

There are few guitarists in the world who have sold as many records as Steve Lukather. That's not to say that every single one of you will have one of his excellent solo albums in your collection, or even one of his classic albums with American AOR band, Toto.

Levi Clay

Steve Lukather is one of the world's most respected guitarists - particularly by fellow professionals. Michael Casswell interviewed him on the eve of the launch of his latest album, Transition. Levi Clay provides a background to this extraordinarily gifted player.

There are few guitarists in the world who have sold as many records as Steve Lukather. That's not to say that every single one of you will have one of his excellent solo albums in your collection, or even one of his classic albums with American AOR band, Toto. But the chances are you'll have some of Steve's work as one of the hottest session players of the late '70s onwards, his name appearing on top artists liner notes from Elton John and Cher to Aretha Franklin and Olivia Newton John to Whitney Houston and, of course, the biggest selling album of all time, with Michael Jackson. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Steve might be some old timer, with nothing cool