Editing Steve Howe (section)

== Accolades ==
Howe was voted "Best Overall Guitarist" in ''[[Guitar Player]]'' magazine five years in a row (1977–1981) and in 1981 was the first rock guitar player inducted into the ''Guitar Player'' Hall of Fame.<ref name="Bio1980s" /> The only other two guitarists to win the "Best Overall Guitarist" category for the "Gallery of Greats" are [[Steve Morse]] and [[Eric Johnson (guitarist, born 1954)|Eric Johnson]].

[[Gibson Guitar Corporation]], the maker of Howe's second electric guitar (which he was still playing forty years later), said that Howe "elevated rock guitar into an art form" and "helped define a new style of music known as [[art rock]]." In a tribute to Howe and his personal favourite [[Gibson ES-175|ES-175]] guitar, Gibson produced a Steve Howe Signature ES-175 in 2002.<ref>[http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/classic/howe175.html Gibson.com: Steve Howe Signature ES-175] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516203307/http://www.gibson.com/products/gibson/Classic/howe175.html |date=16 May 2008 }}.</ref>

Howe received a Prog God award at the 2018 Progressive Music Awards in September.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/steve-howe-to-be-honoured-as-prog-god-at-this-years-progressive-music-awards|title=Steve Howe to be honoured as Prog God at this year's Progressive Music Awards|first=Jerry|last=Ewing|date=16 July 2018|publisher=Louder Sound|access-date=31 July 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816063202/https://www.loudersound.com/news/steve-howe-to-be-honoured-as-prog-god-at-this-years-progressive-music-awards|archive-date=16 August 2022}}</ref>

[[Keith Levene]], one of the founder members of [[The Flowers of Romance (British band)|the Flowers of Romance]], [[The Clash]] and [[Public Image Ltd]] cited Howe as one of his main influences and "the greatest fucking guitarist in the world", and progressive rock as a genre he particularly liked.<ref>Corcoran, Nina. "[https://pitchfork.com/news/keith-levene-the-clash-and-public-image-ltd-guitarist-dies-at-65/ Keith Levene, the Clash and Public Image Ltd Guitarist, Dies at 65]". pitchfork.com. 3 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022</ref>