Dave Stewart
Biography
With a career spanning four decades and over 100M album sales worldwide, award-winning
singer, songwriter, musician, producer and Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart is among the
most respected and accomplished talents in popular music history. Stewart co-wrote and
produced each Eurythmics album in his world-famous duo with Annie Lennox. He has also
produced albums and co-written songs with Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tom Petty, Gwen
Stefani, Damian Marley, Stevie Nicks, Daryl Hall, Bryan Ferry, A.R. Rahman, Katy Perry,
Sinead O’Connor, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, and Joss Stone, and many others.
On April 12 Dave Stewart will release DAVE DOES DYLAN, a 14-song homage to Bob Dylan
— who deemed Stewart “a dreamer and a fearless innovator.” The album is set as a limited-
edition vinyl release for Record Store Day and will be available at indie record stores via
Surfdog Records. The spirit and sonic foundation of DAVE DOES DYLAN is built with live
takes, pure and unedited. Featuring just Dave Stewart on vocals and guitars recorded in one
take, the album finds him performing inspired renditions of Dylan’s songs — all of which he has
adored since an early age.
Recently, Stewart and Stone penned the new musical, “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” which
opened at The Apollo Theatre in London’s West End October 2023. In 2022 Dave Stewart
released Ebony McQueen, one of his most ambitious and autobiographical works of his
remarkable life and landmark career; an exhilarating, original, semi-autobiographical musical
fable about music and young manhood, finding hard-earned wisdom and true love with the girl
next door. The acclaimed album was released last year and work on the film is due to begin
shortly. In addition, he has recently completed a unique music short film titled “Who To Love,”
a collaboration between himself, Italian artists Mokadelic and acclaimed actress Greta Scarano that premiered at Rome Festival in October 2023.
His wide-ranging work has earned Stewart a long list of prestigious honors, including over fifty
ASCAP and BMI Awards, four Ivor Novello Awards for “Best Songwriter,” four BRIT
Awards for “Best Producer” (including a Lifetime Achievement Award), a Golden Globe
Award, and a GRAMMY® Award. “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” by Eurythmics was
recently inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame® and U.S. Library of Congress National
Recording Registry, in recognition of its qualitative and historical significance. Dave Stewart
and Annie Lennox were among the 2020 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, inducted
by St. Vincent, with the ceremony taking place in 2022. Also in 2022, with an inspired induction by U2’s The Edge, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation welcomed Eurythmics as
inductees for their profound impact on music. At both monumental ceremonies, Eurythmics
brought the house down with their stellar and transcendent performance. Stewart will embark on a “Sweet Dreams 40th Anniversary” U.K. and European tour in November 2023.
Beyond his creative work as a musician, Stewart is a renowned film and TV producer (including
NBC’s hit songwriting competition series, Songland), author, photographer, public speaker, and
entrepreneur. In 2010, Stewart established Dave Stewart Entertainment (DSE), a “media
company for the new world” (The Los Angeles Times), linking creative ideas to a host of projects in music, film, television, books, theatre, and new media. As the creator of content for DSE, Stewart has married his passion for music, film, and television by creating a number of high-profile projects. In 1990, Dave Stewart commissioned veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer to venture deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working and create the documentary Deep Blues. The resulting film expresses reverence for the rich musical history of the region. Michael Wilmington of The Los Angeles Times noted it’s “a movie no blues lover, no popular music aficionado, and no devotee of American culture and folkways should miss…a peek into our national soul.”
Dave is the owner/founder of Bay Street Records, writing and producing with unknown and
legendary artists to release on this boutique record label.
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“An explosive musician, Captain Dave is a dreamer and a fearless innovator, a visionary of high
order, very delicately tractable on the surface but beneath that, he’s a slamming, thumping,
battering ram, very mystical but rational and sensitive when it comes to the hot irons of art
forms..” – Bob Dylan
“He is my hero.” – Stevie Nicks
“I love Dave’s passion for making music.” – Mick Jagger
“He’s the musician’s musician.” – Rolling Stone
“Jack of All Trades Master of All of Them” – The Sunday Times
