Eric Stewart

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Eric Michael Stewart (born 20 January 1945) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer best known for his involvement with the rock band The Mindbenders, who were active from 1963 to 1968, as well as a corresponding number of 10cc from 1972 to 1995.

Stewart owned Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England, from 1968 to the early 1980s, where he recorded albums with 10cc and artists such as Neil Sedaka and Paul McCartney.

In the 1980s, Stewart performed on or co-written songs for McCartney's solo albums Tug of War (1982), Pipes of War (1982), and Press to Play (1986).

Stewart has had four solo studio albums since 1980.

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Career

After a year, Stewart was invited to join local band Jerry Lee and the Staggerlees, which later changed its name to the Emperors of Rhythm. Stewart remained with the band for two years and was at the Oasis club in Manchester in early 1963, the evening that Wayne Fontana had an audition with a record company representative. The drummer and guitarist of Wayne Fontana did not turn up for the audition, but Wayne and drummer Ric Rothwell asked Eric and drummer Ric Rothwell if they's'sit in' for the audition. The quartet performed three well-known songs of the time after a few minutes of rehearsal. Wayne Fontana was offered a record contract on the understanding that the musicians who appeared at the audition constituted the band.

Wayne Fontana's band were called The Jets, but the band had to be renamed "The Mindbenders" – the name of a film that had yet to be released – but before that, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders were released, and a new band was named The Jets. The band's initial B-side of "It's Just a Little Bit Late" (June 1965), but Stewart and Fontana co-wrote several songs during that period: "Since You've Been Gone" (with bassist Bob Lang), "One More Time" and "Life Comin'), the B-side of "The Game of Love" (April 1965), the band's sixth single "The Game of Love" (June 1965), which debuted on "Im "Itune based on "Imoe's "Im's a Little Bit Too Late" (Ja...

In July and August 1965, the band toured the United States with Herman's Hermits, resulting in wild scenes Stewart compared to Beatlemania. "The hotels we stayed in were under constant surveillance by security agents, and there were always girls waiting outside in the hundreds," he said. "They were always yanking off my glasses and pulling out tufts of hair, which was extremely painful." In late 1965, the Mindbenders split with Fontana, and they continued to thrive with a profitable UK and US No. 1. In early 1966, the two hit "A Groovy Kind of Love" with Stewart on vocals. They made it to the top 20 in the first 20 years of "Ashes To Ashes" later this year. Stewart was also devoting more time to songwriting having written several b-sides ("Love Is Wonderful," "The Man Who Loved Trees"), and album tracks ("You Don't Know About Love," "The Morning After" by band members Bob Lang and Ric Rothwell). Stewart became dissatisfied with the Mindbenders' existence toward the end of the band's existence, realizing that the music they were playing was getting farther from the style for which they had gained chart success.

"We were regarded as a sort of ballads bandwagon" because of the sort of records we'd had, but we weren't like that at all." We may have been the first of the three-piece heavy bands, but the music we played was clearly intolerable to the kind of people who were able to book the Mindbenders, according to him.

The band came to an end. "There were some really bad gigs," Stewart later recalled. "We were supposed to attend a working men's club in Cardiff one night, and when we arrived there we discovered that the club's tenor 'plus support group' was starring the night, which meant us." It was so disappointing to hear that we'd passed the point where they didn't even bother to write our names on the posters." The band was commissioned to perform cabaret shows for a week, wearing white suits and red silk shirts and making quips about the songs. The band argued and Stewart angrily declared the Mindbenders had been dismissed after one particularly bad show. After the gig, he dropped the other members off at their homes and said, "It's the end of the Mindbenders." Since then, we never saw each other again."

According to Stewart, the royalties and publishing income from his Mindbendering work had left him "fairly secure" financially. Former Billy J. Kramer and Dakotas road manager Peter Tattersall encouraged him to invest in Inner City Studios, a small recording studio in Stockport, in July 1968. Stewart, who had been recording some demos of his own songs at the studio, had invested £800. "I was infected with the ambition of becoming a recording engineer and designing a studio where I could develop my own ideas about what a studio should look like," the engineer explained. At no. 3, the two were relocated to larger premises. In October, 3 Waterloo Road renamed the studio after helping with renovations and painting, "Strawberry Fields Forever" was his favorite Beatles song.

Within months, the pair were joined by a new investor, musician and former Mindbenders bassist Graham Gouldman, who invested a further £2000. Stewart and Gouldman began playing with Lol Creme and Kevin Godley in mid-1969, who were co-working on a project that rock manager and entrepreneur Giorgio Gomelsky was planning for his Marmalade Records label. Gomelsky was captivated with the songs Godley and Creme had written and was aiming to sell them as a pair. Stewart was invited to play lead guitar at one session, and Gouldman and Gouldman followed them shortly after beginning to do regular session work at Strawberry. (Beside Myself, One single "I'm Beside Myself" was released under the name of Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon, as well as two tracks on the Marmalade LP sampler "100 Proof" by Kevin & Lol and Graham Gouldman, before Marmalade closed its doors.)

In December 1969, a deal was struck between US producers Jerry Kasenetz and Jeffry Katz of Super K Productions, enabling the studios to record bubblegum songs using the talents of Gouldman, Stewart, Godley, and Creme. The owners were able to buy more equipment to convert it into a "real studio" after the period of intense sessions. "They were keen on Graham's songwriting, and when they learned he was in a studio, I think they'd do the right thing for them to do would be to book his studio and then bring him to work there," Stewart said.

Stewart, Godley, and Creme composed "Neanderthal Man," a piece by Philips Records that was released in June 1970 under the name of Hotlegs. The single became a worldwide hit, peaking at No. 1 in 2012. Two in the United Kingdom and No. 2 in the United States. Thinks: School Stinks (1970), which Stewart later described as "a little ahead of its time," was followed by a chart. Under the name of Doctor Father, the three bands released another single, "Umbopo." Stewart engineered the singles and album tracks.

In October 1970, Hotlegs embarked on a British tour supporting the Moody Blues, with Gouldman playing bass. After five nights when Moody Blues bassist John Lodge became ill, the tour was cancelled. When no further work for Hotlegs arose, the band members decided the band was defunct and resumed session duties.

Neil Sedaka, an American singer, began recording his Solitaire album at Strawberry Studios in early 1972, with Stewart as the recording engineer and Gouldman, Godley, and Creme as his backing band. The four musicians were encouraged to write their own stuff and then release it as a band as a result of the album's success. "Waterfall" was a Stewart-Gouldman song that was recorded in Stewart, Ireland, where Stewart gave a demonstration of it to the Apple Records cutting room in London, where Sedaka's album was being mastered, in the hopes that Apple would announce it. Apple reverted to deny the song a month later, claiming that it had no commercial value.

They had recorded another song, Godley and Creme's "Donna," by then, and they realized the song "had something" to do. Stewart phoned entrepreneur and producer Jonathan King, who had been in touch with the Mindbenders from the start, and invited him to hear it. The King was excited about the album, predicting a hit, and he signed the band to his UK Records label, naming them 10cc. The album, which was released weeks later in August 1972, has since been ranked No. 1 in the United Kingdom. 2.

Stewart co-wrote four songs co-written by the band's first album, tenc (1973). Stewart and Gouldman's best writing relationship, however, came as a result of Godley & Creme's departure in 1976, including "I'm Not in Love" and "Art for Art's Sake," and "Art for Artists Sake"; the band's first-selling single, although Stewart and Gouldman took a break from 10cc between 1984 and 1991.

The team had dissolved by Mirror Mirror (1995), as tensions between the two teams had risen. The album was a compilation of solo recordings by Gouldman and Stewart, written and recorded separately, and it was the final one for 10cc. Stewart announced with tencc that he had passed away and denied any offers or calls for a reunion after the tour was complete, and he had refused any offers or calls for a reunion.

He told the BBC:

Stewart has engineered and/or produced albums in Strawberry Studios, including artists such as Ramases (Space Hymns, 1971), Neil Sedaka (Solitaire, 1972), and Justin Hayward and John Lodge (Blue Jays, 1975).

Stewart juggled two solo albums sandwiched between the 1980s and 1980s hits, including Girls (1980) and Frooty Roots (1982).

Stewart continued his career as a designer and spent with Sad Café (Facades, 1979, Sad Café, 1980) and Agnetha Fältskog (Eyes of a Woman, 1985).

Stewart began to work with Paul McCartney in the early 1980s. He appeared on three McCartney's albums (Tug of War, Pipes of Hope, and Broad Street Take My Regards), as well as "Take It Away" and "So Bad" music videos, as well as "Give My Regards to Broad Street's film "Give My Regards." Stewart began writing music with McCartney, which later led to Stewart co-writing more than half of Paul McCartney's Press to Play. Stewart's original role as a producer was also planned, but he was replaced by Hugh Padgham, the artist's pick who would later criticize.

Stewart reflected:

Stewart returned to recording solo albums with Do Not Bend (2003) in 2000, while his fourth solo album, Viva la Difference, was scheduled to be out in 2007, but it was postponed until 2009.

In 2017, Stewart published The Things I Do For Love as an iOS ebook. Anthology's remastered songs were some of which were newly mixed and retitled, supporting the release. Stewart himself co-mastered the compilation.

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