Steven William Prestwich (5 March 1954 – 16 January 2011) was an English-born Australian drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter.
After relocating from Liverpool, Prestwich was the founding and long-term drummer for the band Cold Chisel, which formed in Adelaide in 1973.
[citation needed] In 1973, he was the founding drummer for heavy metal group, Orange, with the line-up of Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Don Walker, and Leszek Kaczmarek.
[7] Prestwich died on 16 January 2011 at the age of 56 at the Macquarie University Hospital in Sydney[8] after not regaining consciousness following brain surgery to remove a tumour diagnosed less than two weeks before.
[9] Cold Chisel singer Jimmy Barnes later planted a flame tree in Prestwich's memory at the National Arboretum Canberra.