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Steve Currie was born on May 20, 1947 in Grimsby, North Lincolnshire, England. He was the longest serving member of T. Rex, remained Marc’s bassist for seven years, from 1970 to 1976, from Electric Warrior to Futuristic Dragon.

After a few years working as a shipping clerk on the docks his first musical foray was in local jazz rock band "The Rumble Band". Like Steve Took, Currie answered a newspaper ad for a bass guitarist but he had his doubts whether Tyrannosaurus Rex was going to be the right group for him. But... "I knew that I was right for the job the first time I met Marc. It was a sort of feeling I had that we would work well together. We had a sort of instinctive response to each other`s playing."
He appeared on all of Bolan`s most memorable hit singles from Ride A White Swan (1970) to Laser Love (1976), as well as the albums Electric Warrior (1971) to Dandy In The Underworld (1977). His innovative and, for the time, sophisticated bass playing can be seen to good effect in the movie Born to Boogie.
He played with T.Rex until late 1976 when he left the band. He wrote a letter to Marc explaining why he left T.Rex: he wanted to join a heavy group.

After Marc`s death Steve Currie said: "He was very good to me. I`ll defend him to my death. He was a good bloke; always treated me fairly; never any bullshit".
After T. Rex Steve worked briefly with Wreckless Eric, contributing the bass line for “Telephoning Home", and Chris Spedding, working with the latter on “Guitar Graffiti” LP.

On 28 April 1981 Steve Currie died in a car crash (coincidentially like bandleader Marc Bolan) in Portugal, near his home at Val Da Parra where he had just moved.