ASCAP Celebrates 25 Years of Honoring Pop Music's Top Music Creators The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will honored Steve Miller at its 25th Annual Pop Music Awards on April 9th at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Miller was presented with the prestigious ASCAP Golden Note Award, which is presented to songwriters, composers, and artists who have achieved extraordinary career milestones. Steve Miller, born in Wisconsin and raised in Texas, is one of the most beloved rock & roll stars of the past four decades. He emerged out of the same mid-1960s Chicago music scene that produced the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Relocating to San Francisco at the beginning of the psychedelic rock era, the Steve Miller Band became one of the most notable Bay Area acts of the late 1960s and early 70s, with such FM Rock Radio staples as "Living in the USA" and "Space Cowboy." In the mid-1970s the Steve Miller Band broke through to worldwide success as an arena rock attraction with a series of multi-Platinum selling albums (The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams) and Top Ten hits written or co-written by Miller, including "The Joker," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Take the Money and Run," "Rock'n Me," "Swingtown," and "Abracadabra." Miller, whose music enthusiast father introduced him as a child to such musicians as Les Paul and Charles Mingus, is well known for his guitar excellence, mastery of the studio and showmanship.