Dave Stewart is one of the most respected and trusted people in the music
industry today. A prodigious producer of music, film and photography he is
the "musician's musician", an all-round multi-media entrepreneur and, in
Bob Dylan's words, “a fearless innovator". Stewart has lectured to some of the Worlds Largest Corporations and many leading Advertising Agencies on Innovation and Creativity for many years. Stewart was also a Lecturer on Media
Studies for Westminster University London for 3 years as well as being an External Examiner for their Media Degree course.
Dave Stewart's career spans the last 25 years, having achieved over 75 million album sales with Eurythmics’ partner Annie Lennox. In 1999, the duo were honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brits. Stewart is also known as one of the most prestigious British record producers, working with the biggest names in the music industry worldwide. Dave has won Best British Producer award 4 times, Best British Songwriter award 5 times as well as numerous Grammy Awards, MTV Awards and European Awards. He has won The “Silver Clef Award” for Lifetime Acheivement and a “Special Award for Contribution to British Music” awarded by Stevie Wonder at the British Music Industry Awards.
Eurythmics embarked upon on a world tour during 1999 and 2000 and donated the proceeds to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. Annie and Dave ended the millennium playing live in Greenwich London and played their way into 2000 with the whole world watching as they sang “Sweet Dreams” at midnight Greenwich Meantime. Dave and Annie were inducted into the UK Hall of Fame
by Bob Geldof Nov. 2005 with Prime Minister Tony Blair, Mick Jagger and Sting all delivering speeches.
Since 2000, Dave has written numerous songs with several other major artists including Bono, Bryan Ferry, Gwen Stefani, Anastacia and Shakira to name but a few. Dave is considered one of “the great” guitar players and has shared the stage stage with everybody from BB. King, U2, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan.
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If this wasn’t enough, Stewart is also a highly-regarded artist and filmmaker. He has been active for several years in cinema, writing numerous film scores for Director’s such as Robert Altman, Paul Verhoven, Ted Demme also writing and producing the title songs for many hit movies throughout the years. Dave along with long time collaborator Mick Jagger wrote and produced the Score for Charles Shyer’s movie Alfie starring Jude Law and they won a Golden Globe for best original song as well as USA film critics award and World Music Soundtrack award. Dave produced the award winning documentary, Deep Blues and has directed many music promos. He has also written numerous scripts and his first feature film, “Honest”, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 2000. Dave was Guest of Honour for the Opening Ceremony of Cannes Film Festival in 2002 to give a speech on “Why Are We Creative”.
Stewart’s work as a professional stills photographer has been well documented. He has worked on worked on numerous major ad campaigns and magazine covers and lectured on IMAGERY AND POWER for the UK Government and the UK Advertising Industry. He has exhibited solo and in group shows at the Paris Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum NYC and the Saatchi Gallery London.
Stewart created with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen “The Hospital”, a multi media creative centre and members club in London's Covent Garden. Visit www.thehospital.co.uk
In 2003 Stewart was approached by Nelson Mandela to help fight against the Aids epidemic. Mr.Mandela gave Stewart his prison number 46664 to use
in some way and Stewart not only came up with the idea of a Global Campaign
using the number for telephone donations but went on to write songs with Bono,
Paul McCartney, Queen, The Neptunes, Anastacia and many others, then launched into organising the biggest concert ever staged in South Africa appearing on stage with Beyoncé, Bono, Bob Geldof, Queen, Anastacia and longtime partner Annie Lennox.The concert went live to over 1 billion people, Oprah Winfrey devoted a week to this special event and the foundation is now fully established. Visit www.46664.com.
Dave Stewart now resides in Los Angeles where he has set up “Weapons of Mass Entertainment” www.weaponsofme.com an “Idea Factory” and “Business Incubator” described by The LA Times as a “media company for the new world”. “Weapons of Mass Entertainment” are already in production and partnerships with “My Space”, HBO, 19 Entertainment, Virgin Comics, Interscope Records, Genting International and others.
Dave Stewart and Deepak Chopra have launched a creative consultancy at www.deepstew.com and 2007 will see the launch of “The Law Firm” www.thelawfirmgroup.com a Global Creative Network in 72 countries with Stewart at the Helm in North America.
