And the Welcome one and all to So the Jaker on Songwriting, episode 166.

We hope you're all doing okay.

This is Brian, accompanied as always by Simon and joining us today is a Grammy,

Golden Globe, Ivan Novello and Brit Award winning English singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer,

not to mention film and TV producer, author, philanthropist and entrepreneur.

To date he sold something in the region of 100 million albums and across quite an extraordinary career

has worked with the likes of Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Stevie,

Gwen Stefani, Katie Perry, A R R R R.

and Justin, and that's still only scratching the surface.

However, he remains best known for his formidable partnership with Annie Lennox in your

Olympics.

Together, they achieved nine UK top 40 albums and over 30 hit singles

and next year will be deservedly inducted into the songwriters Hall of Fame.

As this reaches you he's just released his second album as one half of the duo Stuart Lindsay

with the talented Louisiana vocalist Thomas Lindsay. It's called Amity A and he joined us from

his home in the Bahamas to discuss the new record and much, much more. It's a genuine thrill to welcome the superlative

Dave Stewart to the show. We're so excited to finally have Dave on the

podcast aren't we? Absolutely, yeah. We've wanted to interview him for the longest

time. I mean,

your mics were like a mainstay on UK radio on top of the pops during our

childhood, weren't they? Oh, yeah, I mean, that's some of the first pop music

I can remember hearing, really.

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