Monday 11 August 2008

Dave Stewart's songs: Eurythmics and more

Dave Stewart & His Rock Fabulous Orchestra "The Dave Stewart Songbook: Volume One" Surfdog Records


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DAVE STEWART is inactive best known as one-half of Eurythmics, his hit-making collision of fiery soul and polar electronics with singer Annie Lennox. But hehttp://www.latimes.op air is reconfigured for a 30-piece orchestra.


Of the original writing school term , Stewart says, "Annie was really depressed. We had broken up, and we were up in a tiny elbow room up in a picture-framing factory with an eight-track tape recorder. Everything seemed to be like push a snowball up a hill on a hot summerhttp://www.latimes.