What happened really to Steve from Blues Clues?

Question

Some people told me that he went to rehab,some people told me that died, adn others told me that he had a kid. Which of these are it. Or is the answer something else?

Answer 1

After more than five years as host of Nickelodeon's "Blue's Clues," Steve Burns is passing the leash to his successor and passing the mic to himself.

Burns, who along with animated canine Blue has solved nearly 100 puzzles since the children's show premiered in December 1996, is now facing a quandary that has baffled just about anyone who ever wanted to form a career around picking up a guitar: how to get signed.

The 28-year-old Brooklyn, New York, resident has recorded 11 tunes, some of which are posted on www.steveswebpage.com, for an LP titled Songs for Dustmites. That was the easy part. The hard part is getting a label to release his stuff, which combines the sweeping orchestration of the Flaming Lips, whose Steven Drozd assisted in the album's production, with the DIY-aesthetic and detached spookiness of Chicago's homegrown indie rock.

"I really don't care who puts it out," Burns said. "At the end of the day, I just want people to like it. I want as many people to hear it as possible, and I hope it finds a happy home somewhere."

Music isn't a new direction for Burns, who's played in bands since high school, when he was a member of Sudden Impact. From there, he rocked with Nine Pound Truck and the Ivys, his "Morrissey rip-off band." "It's back when I wanted to be [guitarist] Johnny Marr, 'cause you gotta do the Manchester shoe-gazing thing," he explained.

He had been working on material for Songs for Dustmites for nearly two and a half years, ever since he got a computer with sound recording and editing capabilities. His method for making the album was similar to the way he took up playing music as a teen: he just messed around, trial-and-error style, until he found something he liked.

"When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it," he said. "I would just pound on it until I sounded like Fugazi. And I do the same thing on the computer. I pound on it until I sound like ... Boards of Canada. I just beat on it until I get it to comply."

The Steve Burns who no longer spends his mornings being shown up by a little blue beast hardly resembles the Steve Burns who did. For starters, he shaved his head the day after his final episode was in the can. It was something he'd wanted to do for years, but "Blue's Clues" wouldn't let him. And it's highly improbable that he'd be caught wearing khakis and that trademark green rugby shirt at his local indie-rock watering hole. Now Steve is closer to being a guest on MTV2's "120 Minutes" than any program broadcast on Nickelodeon.

The opportunity to work with Lips drummer/multi-instrumentalist Drozd was an amazing experience, said Burns, who first heard the band's most recent album, 1999's The Soft Bulletin, at a party and immediately left the shindig to purchase the LP. While recording his own album, on which he plays most of the instruments, Burns figured he'd at least ask the Oklahoma City band for some advice, but what he got in return was a dream come true.

"I started trying to do my own music at home, and I was like, 'You know what, I can play the guitar, sort of. And I can do these things, sort of. And I can make these crazy noises on my computer, sort of. But I need a ridiculously good drummer. I need someone to help me with string arrangements,' Burns said in a rhetorical fashion similar to the way he thinks aloud on "Blue's Clues," though in a hoarse, breathier tone.

"I was thinking, 'Who would be first to choose from? Well I would like to work at Tarbox Road Studios with the Flaming Lips.' I made a couple phone calls and it happened. We hit it off instantly. ... We sat around college dorm room-style with his trusty keyboard and my acoustic guitar and in a very short time polished the arrangements to what you hear now."

Drozd assisted with six of Songs for Dustmites's 11 tracks, and Lips bassist Michael Ivins engineered the LP. David Fridmann, producer of The Soft Bulletin as well as several other Flaming Lips albums, also worked on the album, though band frontman Wayne Coyne did not. Coyne did, however, cast Burns in his film about the first Christmas on Mars that he's been working on for several years. In the flick, it's Burns whose actions give rise to the red-planet holiday.

When Burns first immigrated to the Big Apple from rural Boyertown, Pennsylvania, he had aspirations of being an actor and landing a role on a crime drama like "Law & Order." However, he scored the "Clues" job almost upon stepping off the bus, and it's been his main gig ever since. And while he's somewhat worried about being typecast as the "Blue's Clues" guy — though without the green shirt and dorky haircut you'd never peg him as such — his tenure at the long-running program has left him with proud memories.

"I took this about as far as I could, I guess," Burns said. "It was a really difficult decision, too, because on one hand, if I wanted to, I could do this for a really long time. The show is extraordinarily popular in several countries. I could be like Fred Rogers ('Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'), which I consider a very noble profession. But I thought, 'Well, is this really what I came to New York to do? Why not quit right when I'm at my peak.'

"I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent," he added. "I hope I'll be remembered for that show for the rest of my life. That will always be a part of my identity, and I'm totally cool with that."

Answer 2

Blues Clues Steve Death

Answer 3

Steve's death was a rumor. In the fall of 1998, an urban legend began circulating on the Internet that Burns had died from a heroin overdose. To counter this rumor, Steve made an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to confirm his good health.

Burns has an active voice-over career. His voice can be heard on numerous Rubbermaid commercials, as well as the 1996 McDonald's commercial that introduced the Arch Deluxe sandwich, and Mobil's "Mobil On The Run" radio commercials.

On October 26th, 2006, Steve Burns released two new songs on his new MySpace page that will appear on his next album, which will be titled Deep Sea Recovery Efforts. He is currently featured in a video on the Jack's Big Music Show website, performing "I Hog the Ground" with Steven Drozd of Flaming Lips.

Answer 4

Steve is not dead. He left Blue's Clues after doing 100 episodes because it was time. So says Steve. He has continued acting and has appeared on Law and Order and in other stuff. He does have a band although the band had nothing to do with him leaving. He just felt he was getting too old to run around in a green striped shirt with a little cartoon dog. Seriously, he moved on because he wanted to. No heroin was involved.

Answer 5

Steve Burns hosted Blues Clues starting with its inception in 1996 and continuing through 2002, at which time the character Joe (portrayed by Donovan Patton) took over hosting duties.

In the fall of 1998, an urban legend began circulating on the Internet that Burns had died from a heroin overdose. To counter this rumor, Steve made an appearance on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to confirm his good health. The legend may have started from Burns' appearance as an autistic teenager in an April 1995 episode of Law & Order, in which his character died before the opening credits. Burns' "overdose" may also have been simply another iteration of a sub genre of urban legend in which celebrity figures whose public persona's are associated with innocence are supposedly revealed to have a hidden, seedier side.

According to a 15 minute documentary on Nickelodeon, titled "The 10 years of Blue", Burns left Blue's Clues because he was losing his hair and he did not want kids to know he was going bald.

After Burns left Blue's Clues in 2002, he recorded a rock album, Songs for Dustmites, which was released in 2003. The album was produced with the assistance of producer Dave Fridmann of Tarbox Road Studios, and with the assistance of and contributions by Steven Drozd, drummer for The Flaming Lips. (During the recording, Burns portrayed an engineer aboard a spacecraft in The Flaming Lips' film, Christmas on Mars.) The album was well-received by critics, many of whom expressed surprise at the album's quality (given their previous associations of Burns as "merely" a children's show host). Burns followed up the album's release with an international tour in 2003 and 2004. Burns also made an appearance on Figure It Out: Wild Style as one of the panelists.

Burns is currently working on a new album. He has recently contributed a cover of They Might Be Giants' "Dead" to the TMBG tribute album, Hello Radio.

Burns has an active voice-over career. His voice can be heard on numerous Rubbermaid commercials, as well as the 1996 McDonald's commercial that introduced the Arch Deluxe sandwich, and Mobil's "Mobil On The Run" radio commercials.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

I dont know but I would like to know the answer to this too! Espically since he is now back on either noggin or nick jr. and singing! Must be he thinks he can change his appearence and people wont notice its him.

Answer 9

He had a band on the side and he left to pursue it full-time>that's what I heard anyway

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