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Boyd Steemson was born in September 1959 and met Andrew Eldritch at St. John's College, Oxford University in 1977.
A matriculation photo showing both of them, though not side by side, can be viewed here (coming soon).

Steemson was the office manager with The Sisters of Mercy's record label Merciful Release. He is known to have been responsible for business affairs
during the production of The Sisters' album Vision Thing and possibly also functioned as the tour manager of the band for quite some time. According to
James Ray in his interview with the inofficial Sisters Fanzine Glasperlenspiel:

Eldritch was contractually the manager of ‘The Performance’ but he gave his duties to the inept Boyd Steemson
who was to all intents & purposes the Merciful Release spokesperson & had no abilities as a manager.

In 1986, Boyd Steemson added Andrew Eldritch in writing the Sisterhood track Giving Ground for the according single.

Occasionally, Boyd Steemson would appear in interviews about The Sisters of Mercy like for example here, where he noted on the contributions of Patricia Morrison to the band:

“Patricia’s contribution wasn’t directly musical. [...] Which is not to say it wasn’t important, because the look, the feel, the image, if you’re in a pop group, is very important.

It was an intriguing relationship that had a lot of value – probably more value than Andrew realised at first. And when he did realise it, I think that’s when he became uneasy

with Patricia. But her musical contributions were very minimal.”

In 1994, Boyd Steemson was also involved on the management side in the release of the album XC-NN by Tim Bricheno's later band of the same name.

See also Boyd Steemson's discography @discogs.

From 1997 on, Boyd Steemson worked as a CEO with the UK radio station Total Rock and has nowadays specialised in promoting newcomer bands.