Steve Morse ’70

Steve Morse ’70, of Cambridge, Mass.; Oct. 26, of lung cancer. After graduation, he taught high school for two years, then freelanced at the Warwick Beacon and Walpole Times, writing music reviews, until being hired at the Boston Globe in 1978, where he had a 28-year career. He covered major events that included Live Aid, Farm Aid, and Woodstock II and III. For two years after leaving the Globe in 2006, he had a weekly radio show, “Morse on Music,” on WBOS. He wrote and taught the online rock history course for Berklee College of Music for the last 12 years, teaching thousands of students all over the world. He served seven years on the nominating committee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and was, himself, inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame on Sept. 30, 2023. (See the BAM article “Live and In Person,” Beyond the Gates, Nov.-Dec.’24.) He was a proud advocate for his artist son, who has autism and survives him. Morse is additionally survived by his fiancée Jessa Piaia, a sister and brother-in-law, and two nephews.