Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson was a member of Steeleye Span during the band's most commercially successful era, from 1972 through 1977. Born in 1944, he took up the guitar as a boy and had a strong interest in folk music, which drew him into the early-'60s folk revival in England. During the mid-'60s, Johnson formed a folk duo with fiddle virtuoso Peter Knight. Between the two, Knight had the more obvious music credentials given his status as a classically trained player, while Johnson later directed his academic efforts elsewhere, earning a degree in psychology, which would serve him well several decades later. The two worked together through 1970, when Knight joined Steeleye Span, which had just undergone a major membership change in the wake of their very first album. Two years later, amid another membership shakeup in the band, Knight brought Johnson into the lineup as a guitarist and singer.



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