Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart (born Waterloo, London, 30 December 1950) is a musician who is best known for recording with singer Barbara Gaskin. He has also worked as a magazine columnist and played keyboards in variou

Dave Stewart (born Waterloo, London, 30 December 1950) is a musician who is best known for recording with singer Barbara Gaskin. He has also worked as a magazine columnist and played keyboards in various progressive rock ensembles: Egg, Arzachel, Khan, Hatfield and the North, and National Health. He is associated with the "Canterbury scene". He has contributed music to several Victor Lewis-Smith TV and radio projects.

His first hit single under his own name was with Zombies-founder and vocalist Colin Blunstone. A cover version of soul classic What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted; it only brushed the charts lightly. A shame, as it bore more relation to Stewart's more serious work than the fun but ultimately throwaway singles he recorded with Gaskin. These singles bear many Stewart hallmarks familiar from his more experimental work, including recurrences of the "Stewarts", a chord based around a major chord with a suspended fifth and a double octave root on the sixth.