David Lloyd Stewart (born 30 December 1950) is an English keyboardist and composer known for his work with the

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

bands

Uriel Uriel or Auriel ( he, אוּרִיאֵל ''ʾŪrīʾēl'', " El/God is my flame"; el, Οὐριήλ ''Oúriēl''; cop, ⲟⲩⲣⲓⲏⲗ ''Ouriēl''; it, Uriele; Geʽez and Amharic: or ) is the name of one of the archangels who is mentio ...

Egg An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the a ...

, Khan,

Hatfield and the North Hatfield and the North were an experimental Canterbury scene rock band that lasted from October 1972 to June 1975, with some reunions thereafter. Career In mid 1972 the band grew out of a line-up of ex-members of blues/jazz/rock band Del ...

National Health National Health were an English progressive rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. Founded in 1975, the band featured members of keyboardist Dave Stewart's band Hatfield and the North and Alan Gowen's band Gilgamesh, including guita ...

, and Bruford. Stewart is the author of two books on music theory and wrote a music column for ''Keyboard'' magazine (USA) for thirteen years. He has also composed music for TV, film and radio, much of it for Victor Lewis-Smith's ARTV production company. He has worked with singer

Barbara Gaskin Barbara Gaskin (born 5 June 1950) is a British singer formerly associated with the UK Canterbury scene. Gaskin was lead vocalist in British folk-prog band Spirogyra (1969–1974). From 1973 to 1976, she sang backing vocals with Dave Stewart' ...

since 1981.

History

Stewart was born in Waterloo, London. Having joined local covers band The Southsiders while still at school, Stewart's musical career began in earnest at the age of seventeen when he played organ in

with

Mont Campbell Hugo Martin Montgomery "Dirk" Campbell (born 30 December 1950, previously known as Mont Campbell) is a British multi-instrumentalist, composer and energy company executive. Campbell was born in the British military hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, ...

(bass, vocals),

Steve Hillage Stephen Simpson Hillage (born 2 August 1951) is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s. Besides his solo sound recording and reprodu ...

(guitar, vocals) and

Clive Brooks Clive Colin Brooks (28 December 1949 – 5 May 2017) was a drummer, best known for his work in the English progressive rock band Egg. Biography Uriel/Egg Clive Colin Brooks was born in Bow, East London. Answering a ''Melody Maker'' ad in earl ...

(drums). After a residency on the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1968, Hillage left the group to go to university. Uriel continued as a trio, later changed their name to

and subsequently recorded two albums for Decca. In 1969 Hillage briefly rejoined his former bandmates to record a one-off psychedelic album under the pseudonym Arzachel. In 1972 Stewart guested on Hillage's new band Khan's first album. After the break-up of Egg in 1973, Stewart joined

, described by author

Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe (; born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, '' What a ...

as "probably the best-loved of the so-called 'Canterbury' bands". (Coe's novel '' The Rotters' Club'' takes its title from the band's second album.) Hatfield broke up in 1975 and, after guesting with the Steve Hillage-led

Gong A gongFrom Indonesian and ms, gong; jv, ꦒꦺꦴꦁ ; zh, c=鑼, p=luó; ja, , dora; km, គង ; th, ฆ้อง ; vi, cồng chiêng; as, কাঁহ is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Gongs ...

on a few French gigs, Stewart founded

with fellow keyboardist

Alan Gowen Alan Gowen (19 August 1947 – 17 May 1981) was an English fusion/progressive rock keyboardist, best known for his work in Gilgamesh and National Health. History Gowen was born in North Hampstead, northwest London. He joined Assagai in 1971 ...

and ex-Hatfield guitarist

Phil Miller Philip Paul Miller (22 January 1949 – 18 October 2017) was an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist and a central part of the Canterbury scene. He was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. Self-taught on guitar, Miller formed his first band, Del ...

. Finding a permanent drummer proved difficult;

Bill Bruford William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English former drummer and percussionist who first gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. After leaving Yes in 1972, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s recording ...

played with the group for a few months and was eventually replaced by Pip Pyle, thereby reuniting three of the former Hatfield musicians. Stewart subsequently guested on Bill Bruford's debut solo album, ''Feels Good to Me'' (1977), before joining his band Bruford. Having recorded three albums and played two successful US tours, the Bruford group was discontinued in 1980. Stewart immediately formed Rapid Eye Movement with his friends

Pip Pyle Phillip "Pip" Pyle (4 April 1950 – 28 August 2006) was an English-born drummer from Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, who later resided in France. He is best known for his work in the progressive rock Canterbury scene bands Gong, Hatfield an ...

(drums), Rick Biddulph (who had been a roadie and sound engineer for Hatfield and National Health) on bass and

Jakko Jakszyk Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor. He has released several solo albums as a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and has been the lead singer for King Crims ...

(guitar & vocals). The UK REM (not to be confused with the contemporaneous American band of the same name) was conceived primarily as a live band and never recorded an album, although poor-quality tapes of live concerts in France survive. Jakko recalls the band as being "a lot rougher than National Health, very structured but performed in a very anarchic way". In 1981 Stewart changed musical direction and began experimenting with pop arrangements and songwriting. His first solo release, a heavy electronic reworking of

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Motown Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on June 7, 1958, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ''moto ...

soul classic "

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" is a hit single recorded by Jimmy Ruffin and released on Motown Records' Soul label in the summer of 1966. It is a ballad, with lead singer Jimmy Ruffin recalling the pain that befalls the broken-hearted who h ...

", featuring guest vocals by

The Zombies The Zombies are an English rock band formed in the early 1960s in St Albans and led by keyboardist and vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone. The group had a British and American hit in 1964 with "She's Not There". In the US, two fu ...

' founder and vocalist

Colin Blunstone Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born 24 June 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blunstone came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the English rock band the Zombies, whi ...

, reached No. 13 in the

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and No. 34 in Australia. For a follow-up, Stewart recruited friend and former Hatfield backing vocalist

to record a version of the 1960s teen lament " It's My Party". Released in the autumn of 1981, the single reached No. 1 in Britain and Germany and topped the UK charts for four weeks. It also peaked at No.4 in Australia. Stewart and Gaskin have worked together ever since and have released seven albums. The duo occasionally play live gigs augmented by either Andy Reynolds (1990-2009) or Beren Matthews (2018 onwards) on guitar, and have performed in Tokyo (September 2001) and London (August 2018) as a quartet with

Gavin Harrison Gavin Richard Harrison (born 28 May 1963) is an English musician. He is best known for playing with the progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree (2002–2010; 2021–present), King Crimson (2008, and 2014–present) and The Pineapple Thief (2016� ...

on drums. The keyboardist's side projects include reforming National Health in 1981 to produce a memorial album for keyboardist Alan Gowen, producing the hit single "

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" and ''

Neil's Heavy Concept Album ''Neil's Heavy Concept Album'' is a 1984 recording of songs and spoken comedy routines by British actor Nigel Planer, in character as the long-suffering hippie Neil from the BBC comedy series '' The Young Ones''. Production, arrangements and ke ...

'' for comedian

Nigel Planer Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is a British actor, comedian, musician, novelist and playwright. He played Neil in the BBC comedy '' The Young Ones'' and Ralph Filthy in ''Filthy Rich & Catflap''. He has appeared in many West End mu ...

(well known for his hippie character in '' The Young Ones''), and producing the first album by Bill Bruford's electro-jazz outfit

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. Stewart has also composed TV music – in the mid-1980s he wrote the new title theme to the revamped BBC music show ''

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'' and later wrote, produced, and performed much of the soundtrack to the TV drama series ''Lost Belongings'', set in Northern Ireland. Since the 1990s, he has written music for TV programmes made by British production company

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; these include the BBC series ''Inside Victor Lewis-Smith'' (1995), ''

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'' (BBC Two, 1999), and the 2003 documentary on the

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''Alchemists of Sound''. In recent years, he has written string and choir arrangements for a number of acts, including

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Porcupine Tree Porcupine Tree are an English rock band formed by musician Steven Wilson in 1987. During an initial career spanning more than twenty years, they earned critical acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, developed a cult following, and became ...

, and

Steven Wilson Steven John Wilson (born 3 November 1967) is an English musician. He is the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and songwriter of the rock band Porcupine Tree, as well as being a member of several other bands, including Blackfield, Storm Corrosio ...

(See "

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" below).

Books

* ''Introducing the Dots: Reading & Writing Music for Rock Musicians'' (1980, later revised and reissued as ''The Musician's Guide To Reading & Writing Music'') * ''The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music'' (1st Edition, 1993, Backbeat Books, ) * ''The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music'' (2nd Edition, 1999, Miller Freeman Books, ) * ''Inside the Music: Guide to Composition'' (1999, Miller Freeman Books, ) * ''Copious Notes'' (Co-written with Antony Vinall &

) (2007, Egg Archive, memoir and recollection)

Discography

Band albums 1969–1980

; Arzachel : * 1969 : ''Arzachel'' ;

: * 1970 : ''

'' * 1971 : '' The Polite Force'' * 1974 : ''

The Civil Surface ''The Civil Surface'' is the third and final studio album by the English progressive rock band Egg, originally released in 1974 on Caroline Records. The band had broken up in 1972, leaving some of their favourite stage pieces unrecorded. At org ...

'' -

on guitar on "Wring Out the Ground (Loosely Now)". ; Khan : * 1972 : ''

Space Shanty ''Space Shanty'' is the debut and only album by the short-lived Canterbury scene band Khan. Steve Hillage's first solo album, '' Fish Rising'', included material originally intended for the second album by Khan, but the band split up before that ...

'' ;

: * 1974 : ''

'' (

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) * 1975 : '' The Rotters' Club'' (Virgin) * 1980 : '' Afters'' (Virgin compilation, 1980) ;

: * 1978 : ''

'' * 1978 : ''

Of Queues and Cures ''Of Queues and Cures'' (also identified as ''Of Queues & Cures'') is the second album recorded by the progressive rock and jazz fusion group National Health, one of the last representatives of the artistically prolific Canterbury scene. Recept ...

'' * 1982 : ''D.S. Al Coda'' (Memorial album to Alan Gowen) ;

: * 1978 : '' Feels Good to Me'' ; Bruford : * 1979 : '' One of a Kind'' * 1980 : '' Gradually Going Tornado'' * 1980 : ''The Bruford Tapes'' (live album) * 2006 : ''

Rock Goes To College ''Rock Goes to College'' (RGTC) was a BBC series that ran between 1978 and 1981 on British television. A variety of up-coming rock oriented bands were showcased live from small venues and broadcast simultaneously on television and radio during ...

'' (Broadcast 1979, DVD released 2006)

Band Archive CDs

: ''Missing Pieces'' (1996) *

: '' Hatwise Choice: Archive Recordings 1973—1975, Volume 1'' (2005) * Hatfield and the North: ''Hattitude: Archive Recordings 1973—1975, Volume 2'' (2006) *

: ''Arzachel Collectors Edition'' (2007) *

: ''The Metronomical Society'' (2007)

Solo single

* "

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", (Broken Records, 1981) (

guest vocalist)

Singles / EPs with Barbara Gaskin

* " It's My Party" (Broken, 1981) * "Johnny Rocco" (Broken, 1982) * "Siamese Cat Song" (Broken, 1983) * "Busy Doing Nothing" (Broken, 1983) * "Leipzig" (Broken, 1983) * "I'm in a Different World" (Broken, 1984) * "

The Locomotion "The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King. "The Loco-Motion" was originally written for R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp, but Sharp turned the song down. The song is notable for appearing in th ...

" (Broken, 1986) * "Walking the Dog" (Line (Germany) 1992) * ''Hour Moon'' (EP) (Broken, 2009)

Albums with Barbara Gaskin

* ''Up From The Dark'' (compilation), Rykodisc (USA) RCD 10011 (1986) * ''Broken Records – The Singles'', MIDI Records (Japan) (1987) * ''As Far As Dreams Can Go'', MIDI Records (Japan) (1988) * ''The Big Idea'', Rykodisc RCD 20172 / MIDI Records (1989) * ''The Singles'', Line Records (Germany) (1990) * ''Spin'', Rykodisc RCD 20213 / MIDI Records (1991) * ''Selected Tracks'' (compilation), Musidisc (France) / Disky (Holland) (1993) * ''Green and Blue'', Broken Records BRCDLP-05 (March 2009) * ''The TLG Collection'', Broken Records BRCDLP-06 (October 2009) * ''Broken Records – The Singles (Special Edition)'', Broken Records BRCDLP-01 (November 2010) * ''As Far As Dreams Can Go (Special Edition)'', Broken Records BRCDLP-02 (November 2010) * ''The Big Idea (Special Edition)'', Broken Records BRCDLP-03 (December 2011) * ''Spin (Special Edition)'', Broken Records BRCDLP-04 (December 2011) * ''Star Clocks'', Broken Records BRCDLP-07 (September 2018)

Producer

* 'How Beautiful You Are' (

Peter Blegvad Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of German/English avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many sol ...

* 'Dangerous Dreams' (

7" single) * 'Are My Ears on Wrong' (

album track) * ''

'', East West 4509-94852-2 (1984) * ''

'' (

, 1987)

Arranger

* ''

Fear of a Blank Planet ''Fear of a Blank Planet'' is the ninth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree and their best selling before 2009's '' The Incident''. It was released on 16 April 2007 in the UK and the rest of Europe by Roadrunner, 24 A ...

'',

2006 (''strings*'') * ''

Schoolyard Ghosts ''Schoolyard Ghosts'' is the sixth studio album by British art rock band No-Man. Recorded in the UK, France, Sweden and the USA and released on 12 May 2008, the album features contributions from Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club, Red House Pai ...

'',

No-Man No-Man are an English art pop duo, formed in 1987 as No Man Is an Island (Except the Isle of Man) by singer Tim Bowness and multi-instrumentalist Steven Wilson. The band has so far produced seven studio albums and a number of singles/outtakes ...

2008 (''strings*'') * '' Insurgentes'',

2008 (''strings*'') * '' We're Here Because We're Here'',

2010 (''strings*'') * ''Kompendium'', Rob Reed (

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) 2011 (released 2012) (''strings*'') * ''

Grace for Drowning ''Grace for Drowning'' is the second solo studio album by Steven Wilson, producer, songwriter, and frontman of Porcupine Tree. It was released by Kscope on 26 September 2011 as a double album. The album received a nomination at the 54th Annual G ...

'',

2011 (''strings* & choir'') * ''

Falling Deeper ''Falling Deeper'' is an album of orchestral re-interpretations from British atmospheric rock band Anathema released on 5 September 2011. The album is a follow-up to 2008's ''Hindsight'', for which the band recorded different versions of their pa ...

'',

2011 (''strings*'') * ''

Storm Corrosion Storm Corrosion was a musical collaboration between Mikael Åkerfeldt of Swedish progressive metal band Opeth and Steven Wilson, an English solo artist and frontman of the progressive rock band Porcupine Tree. Åkerfeldt and Wilson began a long ...

'',

2012 (''strings*'') * ''

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'',

2012 (''strings*'') * '' The Raven That Refused to Sing'',

2013 (''strings*'') * ''Universal (live film + album), Plovdiv, Bulgaria'',

2013 (''strings**'') * '' Pale Communion'',

Opeth Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1990 by lead vocalist David Isberg. The group has been through several personnel changes, including the replacement of every original member; notably Isberg in 1992. Mikael ...

2014 (''strings*'') * ''

Distant Satellites ''Distant Satellites'' (stylised as ''distant satellites'') is the tenth studio album by the British rock band Anathema. It was released in June 2014 via Kscope and reached #33 in the UK album charts. Background and recording The album was recor ...

'',

2014 (''strings*'') * '' Hand. Cannot. Erase.'',

2015 (''strings* & choir'') * '' To the Bone'',

2017 (''strings* & choir'') * ''

In Cauda Venenum ''In Cauda Venenum'' (Latin for "Poison in the tail") is the thirteenth studio album by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, released on 27 September 2019 through Moderbolaget and Nuclear Blast. It was released in two versions: a Swedish-language ...

'',

2019 (''strings*'') (* ''Strings performed by the London Session Orchestra, produced by Dave Stewart.'') (** ''Strings performed by the

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.'')

Other appearances

* ''

Fish Rising ''Fish Rising'' is the debut solo album by English guitarist Steve Hillage, recorded and released in 1975. The album was recorded just prior to Hillage's departure from the band Gong, and many of the players on this album are from that band: Ba ...

'',

, 1975 * ''Hopper Tunity Box'',

Hugh Hopper Hugh Colin Hopper (29 April 1945 – 7 June 2009) was a British progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and other bands. Biography Early career Starting in ...

, 1977 * ''Cutting Both Ways'', Phil Miller, 1987 * ''Surveillance'', Walkie Talkies, 1980 * '' Sooner or Later'',

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1987 Produced by

- Dave on backing vocals * ''Split Seconds'', Phil Miller, 1989 * ''Seven Year Itch'',

, 1998 * ''Robert Wyatt & Friends In Concert'', 2005 oncert recorded in 1974* ''The Bruised Romantic Glee Club'',

, 2006 * ''Conspiracy Theories'', Phil Miller, 2006 * ''Cheating the Polygraph'', Gavin Harrison, 2015 * ''Too'', Dizrythmia, 2016

References

External links

Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin: Pop music for grown-ups

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