Steve's wife Jenny Richards is a TV and film producer. He has two sons, Nick & Rusty, daughter Melissa and grandchildren Asta and Bo. Nick is a film writer & online editor of the BFI's Sight and Sound. Rusty is a freelance musician, keyboard player for Florence & the Machine and previously Razorlight; he also teaches music and writes TV and film scores. Melissa is a writer on music, gender and culture and has a PHD in American Literature from Birkbeck College.