Stephen Geoffrey Richardson

Stephen Geoffrey Richardson — April 26, 1952 to January 3, 2026

Stephen Geoffrey Richardson, age 73, died January 3rd, from complications of a brain aneurysm suffered after a workout March 2017 at the University of Southern California (USC).

Fans of local music will recognize and remember Stevie as a member of numerous popular bands, most notably his legendary glam-rock band in the mid-70's, The Queen City Punks. He was a graduate of Glendale High School, class of '70, and attended Southwest Missouri State University.

Stephen lost the older brother he idolized in a climbing incident March of 1971 when Richie fell from a cliff. The rest of Stephen's immediate family: father Leonard, mother Elizabeth (Tiz), and both younger sisters, Lisa and Rebekah drowned in the Big Thompson River flood in 1976 while on vacation camping in Estes Park, CO. The catastrophe left Stephen his family's sole survivor.

Stephen moved to London with his band, spending time there and in New York, before settling in Los Angeles and forming his last group, The Sights. With airplay on the premier rock radio station, KROQ, The Sights gained recognition for two of Stephen's songs, "So Much for Everlasting Love" and "Virginia." The band was signed to Gold Mountain Records, but failed to break out into other regions.

After his stab at the music business did not yield the success he was after, Stephen, a lifelong learner, turned to the field of Education. He attended film school at UCLA, before studying abroad at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied literature and earned a graduate degree.

Returning to California in 1999, Stephen taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Fluent in Spanish and French, he especially enjoyed teaching elementary-aged children for whom English was a second language.

Stephen was an award-winning short story writer, and was working on a novel and a screenplay when the aneurysm left him disabled. He will be remembered for his talent, his creativity, and the humor he maintained in spite of tremendous tragedy, grief, and adversity.

For the last six years, Stephen was in the care of Spring Valley Health & Rehabilitation Center in Springfield, MO. Stephen's friends would like to express limitless gratitude to everyone there who cared for him: Bernie, Sandy, Kathleen, Hannah, and many others. You are angels.

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