So we hit it off straight away on the first four sentences of talking.

Songland airs Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC. And Sammy Cahn would tell stories, Frank would call him like two in the morning, 'Sammy, this line here, how do you expect me to do that? And then this disastrous thing happened where my knee was broke in half. Contestants are selected to work with producers and a well-known recording artist to release a song. My mom went to London so a lot of these songs had a different resonance with me. By then I'd started to try and write songs. And we stopped.One of my influences with Eurythmics was [artist duo] Gilbert & George. Dave Stewart performs at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on Sept. 8, 2017 in London. I've been fortunate enough to work with and write with Paul and become mates with George, who was such a great friend.I decided I only want to play music, play my guitar just for the hell of it cause everything had been so massive, Then I went back to London and this art scene had started to happen. I never even thought about music. So it was "Oh, what a beautiful morning." I'd been rolling around in the music world and taking all sorts of drugs and even got married when I was 18 to a woman from my hometown. Dave Stewart Entertainment is the Idea Factory and production studio run by Grammy and Golden Globe winning artist/producer Dave Stewart. So this is my self portrait with Gilbert & George. And Elvis was the same.

"Stewart's Who I Am journey is a truly remarkable one. It gives the viewers a look at the creative processin action. So we started talking, she was playing the harmonium, we just carried on talking just about all night.

In reality, my cousin lived in Memphis and sent us a box and in it were some corduroy Levis and these blues albums. Under his breath he's got this classic Liverpool sense of humor. The latest project from the Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart is NBC's "Songland," the network's new singing competition series on which he serves … But it was more the way he would think in he had a really mad sense of humor, like something in the Monty Python films. He was a carpenter, made all the furniture in our house. I spoke with Stewart last week in Los Angeles at … "My brother, who was four or five years older, brought in some blues albums from college. And I did. In the Martin Scorese film you see a lot of interviews with George, that's me interviewing him.

This Spanish guitar with three strings on it. That's when I met Damien Hirst.

I got so obsessed with football, all I wanted to do was play for the town, for the school. And toured the world constantly. When not writing about music I am hanging with my dog, playing basketball and eating sushi in sunny Southern California.Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Allan "Dave" Stewart (born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox.

You gotta do this.' Then he brought in Early on in Sunderland my brother had brought an EP and that had "Not Fade Away" and things like that. Then I started to really dive into that whole art scene, post Eurtyhtmics, even though they were the influence of me and Annie back in 1982. Annie and I went back to her small little room and she had a harmonium.

I have had countless amazing experiences in music, from tea with Neil Young and hanging in a limo with Stevie Wonder to drinking beer bongs with the Foo Fighters in Vegas and being onstage with Skrillex. "My wife's father was a film producer and his best friend was Sammy Cahn, who wrote like 50 odd Sinatra lyrics. Damien and I became great friends and I decided to make a solo album called I have written for Billboard, Rolling Stone, the L.A. Times, Yahoo, Vice and every other major publication as well as host the Hulu interview series Riffing With andI have written for Billboard, Rolling Stone, the L.A. Times, Yahoo, Vice and every other major publication as well as host the Hulu interview series Riffing With and teach music journalism for Grammy Camp.