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Dave Stewart
Sometimes an interest in a particular sound can take a musician in an entirely new direction. “I remember when I first heard an orchestra properly,” says Dave Stewart. “My dad built a stereogram when I was about nine. The first time he played something on it – I think it was the King and I – the sound just blew me away. That was part of the inspiration for the new album: I wanted to make that kind of sound myself. What will my songs sound like performed by a 30-piece orchestra? We’ll have to wait and see.”
Dave Stewart.Dave Stewart.Click to enlarge

Rock musician, songwriter, record producer, prankster and “fearless innovator” (as described by friend and collaborator Bob Dylan)", David Allan Stewart has come along way since his early days sleeping on squat floors in London in the 1970s.

It was a chance encounter with a young Scottish singer, Annie Lennox, that propelled Stewart to stardom as part of the most seminal pop-rock duos of the 1980s.

Releasing a string of top ten hits throughout the decade, Eurythmics proved to be one of the most consistent acts of the period.

Never a man to rest on his laurels, Stewart embarked on a series of other songwriting projects and collaborations when Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, working with artists such as Sinead O’Connor, Bryan Ferry, Alison Moyet, Bono, Tom Petty, Jon Bon Jovi, Terry Hall, Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Cliff.

Dave Stewart‘s involvement in the film industry began in 1989, when he wrote the soundtrack Lily Was Here for the Dutch movie De Kassière.

Other projects followed, including a directorial debut (the All Saints film Honest) and a collaboration with Mick Jagger on songs for the soundtrack to the 2004 film Alfie, one of which, Old Habits Die Hard, won a Golden Globe for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.

Stewart is also a manager (managing up and coming star Nadirah X among others), an interviewer for the HBO music programme Off the Record and a charity fundraiser, working with the Nelson Mandela Foundation to raise money for HIV/AIDS research.

Rock musician, songwriter, record producer, prankster and “fearless innovator”.|Bob Dylan|Friend & Collaborator
My dad built a stereogram when I was about nine. The first time he played something on it – I think it was the King and I – the sound just blew me away. That was part of the inspiration for the new album.|Dave Stewart|Musician & Record Producer
The Dave Stewart Songbook.The Dave Stewart Songbook.Click to enlarge

Keenly interested in the arts and a natural collaborator, Stewart set up The Hospital in Covent Garden in the mid 1990s as a working and meeting space for artists in every discipline.

A prolific talent, Dave Stewart continues to write songs, perform and release records.

One of his most recent live projects was the Dave Stewart Songbook, a concert at the Tower Music festival at the Tower of London in which Stewart and his band performed songs specially chosen from his phenomenal back catalogue of work accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra.

Due to the success of this performance, Dave plans to re-record many of these pop classics including the Eurythmics back catalogue, again accompanied by an orchestra, with a view to releasing an album late this year.

Dave Stewart, the "Fearless Innovator".Dave Stewart, the "Fearless Innovator".Click to enlarge

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