David A. Stewart

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David A. Stewart in 1987 when the Eurythmics performed at Rock am Ring

David Allan "Dave" Stewart (born September 9, 1952 in Sunderland ) is a British musician, guitarist, composer and producer .

Life

He became best known through the band Eurythmics , founded with Annie Lennox , which appeared in the charts from 1981 and with titles such as Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) , Here Comes the Rain Again or There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart ) were successful. He had previously played with Lennox on The Tourists from 1977 to 1980 .

From the late 1980s on, some solo records were also released. With the Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer and the song Lily Was Here from the film of the same name, Stewart achieved a top 10 European hit at the end of 1989. In 1990 he also appeared with a band under the name "Dave Stewart & the Spiritual Cowboys" and had a moderately successful hit in Germany with Jack Talking .

In the early 1990s Stewart worked with Terry Hall ( The Specials , Fun Boy Three , The Colourfield ) in the Vegas band project and produced other artists with great success. a. the band of his then wife Siobhan Fahey , Shakespears Sister .

Together with Tom Jones he recorded the benefit record All You Need Is Love in 1993 . In 1994 he released the album Greetings from the Gutter with the single hit Heart of Stone under his own name .

He made his musical debut with Barbarella , which premiered in 2004 at the Raimund Theater in Vienna and is based on the film of the same name. With the musical Ghost , which he wrote with Glen Ballard and Bruce Joel Rubin based on the film of the same name , he achieved great success in 2011 in London's West End and in 2012 on Broadway. In late 2007 he recorded the album Liverpool 8 as the producer of Ringo Starr ( The Beatles ) .

In May 2011, Stewart announced the founding of the supergroup SuperHeavy together with Mick Jagger , Damian Marley , AR Rahman and Joss Stone . The album of the same name was released in September of that year. On February 9, 2014 he performed with Lennox at the tribute concert The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles with the Beatles song The Fool on the Hill in Los Angeles .

In March 2018 he released the song "Be my rebel" with the German singer Nena , the video for the song was made by Virgil Widrich .

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK
1989 Lily Was Here DE37 (11 weeks)
DE 		- CH28 (2 weeks)
CH 		UK35 (5 weeks)
UK
First published: November 1989
with Candy Dulfer
1990 Dave Stewart and the Spiritual Cowboys - - - UK38 (2 weeks)
UK
First published: September 1990
with Spiritual Cowboys
1994 Greetings from the Gutter DE45 (8 weeks)
DE 		AT30 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH33 (5 weeks)
CH 		UK93 (1 week)
UK
First published: September 1994

More albums

  • 1991: Honest (with Spiritual Cowboys)
  • 1991: Jute City (Soundtrack)
  • 1992: Vegas (with Vegas)
  • 1994: The Ref - Songs of Suburbia (Soundtrack)
  • 1998: Sly-Fi
  • 1999: Cookie's Fortune (soundtrack for Cookie's Fortune )
  • 2001: Grow Younger, Live Longer (with Deepak Chopra )
  • 2004: Alfie (soundtrack with Mick Jagger )
  • 2004: Barbarella (musical)
  • 2008: Liverpool 8 (with Ringo Starr )
  • 2008: The Dave Stewart Songbook Vol. 1
  • 2011: Ghost - The Musical (Musical)
  • 2011: The Blackbird Diaries
  • 2012: The Ringmaster General
  • 2013: Lucky Numbers
  • 2017: Nashville Sessions: The Duets, Vol. 1

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1989 Lily Was Here
Lily Was Here 		DE17 (25 weeks)
DE 		AT18 (11 weeks)
AT 		CH10 (9 weeks)
CH 		UK6 (12 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 1989
with Candy Dulfer
1990 Jack Talking
Dave Stewart And The Spiritual Cowboys 		DE49 (13 weeks)
DE 		- - UK69 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 1990
with Spiritual Cowboys
Love Shines
Dave Stewart And The Spiritual Cowboys 		- - - UK88 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: October 1990
with Spiritual Cowboys
1994 Heart of Stone
Greetings from the Gutter 		DE52 (21 weeks)
DE 		AT12 (6 weeks)
AT 		- UK36 (5 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 1994
1995 Jealousy
Greetings from the Gutter 		DE83 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - UK86 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: March 1995
Secret - - - UK89 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: November 1995
2004 Old Habits Die Hard
Alfie 		DE62 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - UK45 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: November 2004
with Mick Jagger

Bibliography (selection)

  • Dave Stewart: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This - From the Eurythmics to SuperHeavy (The Autobiography) . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-495-3 (Original edition: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This )

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Golden Raspberry

  • 1996: in the "Worst Song" category for Walk into the Wind

RSH gold

  • 1995: in the "Comeback of the Year" category

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRLX1yKZm8
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  4. ↑ RSH Gold Award 1995

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Stewart, David A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steward, David Allan (real name); Stewart, Dave; Guiot, Jean; Doom, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Sunderland (Durham) , England