David Allan Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox.
[4][5] Outside of Eurythmics, Stewart has written and produced songs for artists such as Ringo Starr, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger and Tom Petty.
[6] Distantly related both to the Dukes of Northumberland and to pirates, Stewart was from a middle-class, "well-off family", with accountant parents; he "always wanted to play with the working-class kids, but they'd always call [him] 'richie' and whack [him] on the head with cricket bats and things."
His father was a "keen harmonica player" with a "dedication to music of all types", having "invested in the latest hi-tech stereo system and wired it up to every room in the house.
He also collaborated with Brian Harrison to produce an EP on the Sunderland Multicord label (label number MULT-SH-1, producer Ken McKenzie), recording two songs ("Girl" and "Green She Said") from a school musical production written by teacher Dick Bradshaw, one traditional number ("A Blacksmith Courted Me") and a song written by Dave and Brian ("Deep December").
Lennox and Stewart worked together again in 2005, recording two new tracks for the greatest hits package Ultimate Collection, released to coincide with Eurythmics' 25th anniversary.
When Eurythmics dissolved in 1990, Stewart moved to France and immediately released a self-titled album with his new band, The Spiritual Cowboys, which reached No.
The album was not a commercial success, though Stewart scored a minor UK hit with the single "Heart Of Stone" which reached number 36.
On the project, The Dave Stewart Songbook, he wrote a large coffee table-size book full of stories and photographs and also re-recorded 21 hit songs which have been co-written or co-produced by him during the past decades and were originally released by artists such as No Doubt, Shakespears Sister, Bryan Ferry, Celine Dion, Bob Geldof, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jon Bon Jovi and Eurythmics.
Entitled The Blackbird Diaries after the Nashville, Tennessee studio where it was recorded, the album includes duets with Stevie Nicks, Martina McBride, Colbie Caillat and The Secret Sisters.
The same year, Stewart also produced the debut solo album by Feargal Sharkey, which included the UK number one hit "A Good Heart".
In 1992, along with Marcella Detroit, he co-wrote the Shakespears Sister hit single "Stay" with his then-wife, Siobhan Fahey (with Stewart credited under the pseudonym "Jean Guiot") as well as several other tracks for their second album Hormonally Yours.
In this year Fahey also provided vocals on "Walk into the Wind" for Stewart's group Vegas with Terry Hall, Olle Romö and Emmanuel 'Manu' Guiot.
[20] In 1993, Stewart co-wrote two tracks for German punk rock-singer Nina Hagen which were published on her sixth solo studio album Revolution Ballroom.
In 2010, Stewart co-wrote and co-produced two songs with writer and composer Mark Warford 'Lover Earth' and 'Time, Faith, Love' for the charity-focused dramatised audio production, 'A Voyage For Soldier Miles'.
[25] On 10 October 2011, Stewart released a new song called "Leap of faith" in collaboration with Greek singer Anna Vissi.
[29][30] Stewart co-wrote and produced New Zealand singer Jon Stevens' album called Starlight,[31] which was released in March 2017 and features a blues and soul influenced rock / powerpop sound.
[32][33] Parallel to that, Stewart co-wrote and produced Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi's studio album,[34] which features "soul gospel" music.
[39] Stewart was the main interviewer for the HBO series Off the Record, which is a show that highlights songwriting and features prominent musicians.
Stewart created and executive produces the NBC unscripted series Songland, which gives new songwriters a chance to have their original compositions recorded by an established artist, with a single released immediately following each episode.
In 2021 Stewart teamed up with Joss Stone to write and produce a new stage production of The Time Traveller's Wife, based on the Audrey Niffenegger novel of the same name.
The show received its premiere in September 2022 at the Storyhouse in Chester, before transferring to London's west end, where it began previews at the Apollo Theatre in October 2023.
The label has included a roster of artists such as Terry Hall, Londonbeat, Chris Braide and Curve vocalist Toni Halliday.
In 2006, Stewart resurrected Platinum Weird, a band he purportedly formed in the early 1970s in London with singer Erin Grace, but which was in reality created in 2004.
In July 2006, VH1 premiered a mockumentary entitled Rock Legends – Platinum Weird, an examination of the band's unusual story, complete with cameo appearances from such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Ringo Starr and Elton John, all reminiscing about the former band's short-lived heyday and their impressions of the mysterious Erin Grace.
The album was further promoted by a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites, some of which are registered by the New Media Department of Interscope Records and hosted on the same server as interscope.com,[46][47][48] and related false documents for the "lost" group.
[64] [65] [66] - [67] [73] With Anastacia With Jimmy Cliff "With Bootsy Collins" With Billy Ray Cyrus With Bob Dylan "With Fantaazma" With Aretha Franklin With Bryan Ferry With Nina Hagen With Daryl Hall With Hall & Oates With Geri Halliwell With Mick Jagger With Jon Bon Jovi With Martina McBride With Stevie Nicks With Sinéad O'Connor With Orianthi Panagaris With Katy Perry With Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers With Carina Round With Feargal Sharkey With Carly Simon With Ringo Starr With Joss Stone With Shania Twain With The Wilsons With Robin Zander