Stevie Shears: the public record

Stevie Shears was the band’s guitarist from the Tiger Lily days of 1974 until early March 1978. He was a member when Tiger Lily released their 1975 single, and he plays on the first two albums, Ultravox! and Ha! Ha! Ha!, both released by Island in 1977.

He left after a UK tour at the start of March 1978 and was replaced by Robin Simon, who played on Systems of Romance.

The biography

Richard Evans told Kaput that nobody connected with the band was still in touch with Shears, and that finding him took time. Once found, Shears “decided that he didn’t want to be directly involved” in the book.

What this page will and will not do

This page documents his recordings, his dates in the band, and the concerts he played as they are entered into the gigography. It does not record anything about his life outside the band, and it does not repeat accounts of why he left that are not in published, attributable sources. That is the archive’s rule for every member; it matters most for someone who has chosen not to speak.

Drafting note: the wording of this essay was drafted with the help of an AI language model from the sources listed below. Every fact in it comes from those sources, and it is published only after an editor has checked each statement against them.