Editing Steve Howe (section)

== Personal life ==
Howe started a relationship with Pat Stebbings in 1968.<ref name=hjym>”He's Just A Yes Man!", June 5, 1971 issue of Jackie magazine (#387)</ref> They married in a register office in Burnt Oak.<ref name=hjym /> She gave birth to his son [[Dylan Howe|Dylan]] in 1969, while living in London.<ref name=hjym/> They divorced within two years and Howe received custody.{{sfn|Howe|2021|page=55}} Dylan was a member of [[the Blockheads]], is part of the [[Steve Howe Trio]] with his father, and toured alongside him as Yes's second drummer in 2017.

Howe married his wife Janet Osborne in 1975.<ref name=newsweek2015>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/2015/09/18/getting-yes-steve-howe-guitar-wizard-365831.html|title=Getting to Yes: An Ode to Guitar Wizard Steve Howe|work=Newsweek|first=John|last=Walters|date=26 August 2015|access-date=3 January 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609200131/https://www.newsweek.com/2015/09/18/getting-yes-steve-howe-guitar-wizard-365831.html|archive-date=9 June 2022}}</ref> They had three children: [[Virgil Howe|Virgil]], Georgia and Stephanie.<ref name=NFTE286>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfte.org/interviews/SH286.html|title=Notes From the Edge - Conversation with Steve Howe [NFTE #286]|publisher=Notes from the Edge|first=Mike|last=Tiano|date=29 September 2003|access-date=3 January 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170912055632/http://www.nfte.org/interviews/SH286.html|archive-date=12 September 2017}}</ref> Virgil was a member of the [[Rock music|rock]]/[[British rhythm and blues|R&B]] band [[Little Barrie]], and died on 11 September 2017.<ref name=VirgilDeath>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/yestheband/photos/a.232253266786669.74071.223599747652021/1859385384073441/?type=3&theater |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/223599747652021/1859385384073441 |archive-date=26 February 2022 |url-access=limited|title=Due to the tragic, unexpected death of guitarist Steve Howe's beloved younger son, Virgil|work=Yes' official [[facebook]]|first=John|last=Walters|date=11 September 2017|access-date=12 September 2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/little-barrie-virgil-howe-dead-11152543|title=Little Barrie drummer and son of Yes star Virgil Howe dies aged 41|first=JJ|last=Nattrass| website=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=12 September 2017}}</ref>

In 1972, Howe became a vegetarian; since then, he and his wife have embraced the [[macrobiotic diet]]. He also avoids taking unnecessary pharmaceutical drugs, preferring [[alternative medicine]] and [[homeopathy]].{{sfn|Howe|2021|p=83–85}}<ref name=newsweek2015/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/03/04/guitarist-steve-howe-of-yes-interview/|access-date=6 June 2016|title= Guitarist Steve Howe of Yes (Interview) |first=Marshall|last=Ward|date=4 March 2013|publisher=Rock Cellar Magazine|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910180516/http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2013/03/04/guitarist-steve-howe-of-yes-interview/|archive-date=10 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="innerviews">{{cite web|last1=Prasad|first1=Anil|title=Into the storm|url=http://www.innerviews.org/inner/howe2.html|website=Music without borders|date=2012|access-date=30 August 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723040600/http://www.innerviews.org/inner/howe2.html|archive-date=23 July 2015}}</ref>{{efn|In his memoirs, Howe recalls deciding after a particularly enjoyable [[LSD]] trip he took along with then-Yes keyboardist [[Tony Kaye (musician)|Tony Kaye]] while recording ''[[The Yes Album]]'' that he would not spoil the memory by taking the drug again.{{sfn|Howe|2021|p=69–71}}}} He ate his last meat meal during a North American tour with Yes in 1971.<ref name=vegetarian1992/>

Howe has practiced [[Transcendental Meditation]] daily since adopting it in 1983.<ref name=newsweek2015/><ref name="innerviews"/>

As a result of some accidents and near-accidents, particularly the one that injured then-keyboardist [[Tony Kaye (musician)|Tony Kaye]] badly enough to require the cast he is wearing on the cover of ''The Yes Album'', in his early  days with Yes, when the band traveled to dates around England in a small [[Rover Company|Rover]], Howe has always preferred to travel by personal automobile, either driving himself or, more recently, with an "attentive" personal driver.{{sfn|Howe|2021|page=76–77}} In 1977 he bought a [[Bristol 411]] Series 5, which he describes as "extremely high-quality ... a truly thrilling car to drive", although it had to be started with careful attention to the [[Choke valve|choke]]. Bristol stored it for him when he was out of the country on tour, and in 1992 he sold it back to them, with {{convert|55000|mi}} on it, at a profit. Since then Howe and his wife have driven, or been driven in, exclusively [[Mercedes-Benz]] products.{{sfn|Howe|2021|page=118-119}}