The Times Magazine Sits Down With Dave Stewart
The Times Magazine recently sat down with Dave Stewart to discuss Rare Entity, the creative studio he co-founded to support and develop original artistic projects. During the interview, Stewart looked back on his early days with Annie Lennox, sharing how a pivotal bank loan helped finance the record that would ultimately launch their career.
“Annie and I lived in a squat on £8 a week between us. We wanted to make music together but we had nothing. We had a record company and made an album called In the Garden, but it didn’t sell and the record company thought we were nuts and wanted to drop us,” Stewart, 73, says.
“I said, ‘Why don’t I go and see the bank manager at Barclays [in Crouch End, north London] and explain that I want this equipment and we can make a record on that, and then make the next record too’. Annie said, ‘The bank manager will think we’re nuts’, and we did look quirky.”
This was 1982. The list of second-hand recording equipment came to £4,800, Stewart says. “We went to see the bank manager, he was a youngish manager. He listened and said ‘Ok, we’ll lend you £5,000’. We made the album Sweet Dreams.”
Read the full article HERE.