Dave Stewart a hero of the 80ies synthi pop scene
Here comes No. 3 of DanceLegends with a UK hero of the 1980ies for DiscoTuesday. Dave Stewart is mostly famous for his Eurythmics work but he did more. The first track is one of my 80ies favourite songs of all times. It's My Party with Barbara Gaskin was No. 1 in the English charts back in 1981 - the original sing has been produced by Lesley Gore. Dave Stewart made the songs an early synth pop classic, very harmonical and fresh tunes over 30 years ago.
David Stewart won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards and obviously in the following you will also see some of his success with Annie Lennox during their Eurythmics times.
Eurythmics
In 1976 he met Annie Lennox and fell in love with her. They did also music together with first small chart breakers such as "I Only Want to Be with You". In 1980 the love relationship came to an end but they formed a new musical project named Eurythmics together with major success until 1990. As most of these bands they reunited later again lol.
The Years after the Eurythmics
Dave did a lot production work since the end of his work with Annie, one remarkable event was in November 2002, when he worked with former South African president Nelson Mandela with the idea of turning Mandela's prison number into a telephone number. The song was recorded with other top stars such as Paul McCartney, Bono and Edge and others that you could only hear if you dialled this number and whilst listening you were donating.
This was the start of the 46664 campaign that included a lot of concerts fighting against HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Sources: Wikipedia and YouTube