David A. Stewart
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 | |||
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DE | AT | CH | 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 | AT | CH | UK | 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)
- 1989: Rooftops - Roofs of Death (Rooftops)
- 1995: Hackers - On the FBI's network (Hackers)
- 2004: Alfie
Awards
- 1996: in the "Worst Song" category for Walk into the Wind
- 1995: in the "Comeback of the Year" category
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRLX1yKZm8
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
- ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
- ↑ RSH Gold Award 1995
Web links
- official homepage
- Video Interview (English)
- ethrill.net - The Eurythmics Fanweb - recognized fansite
- David A. Stewart at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- David A. Stewart at Discogs (English)
- Dave Stewart & Eurythmics Fan Discography
personal data | |
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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 |