Dave Stewart – författare

Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DC’s bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size! Experience iconic writer-artist Darwyn Cooke’s retro futuristic masterpiece, exploring the Justice League’s adventures in an alternate 1950s America!Welcome to the DC Universe in 1950s America — a land of promise and paranoia, of glittering cities and segregated slums, of dizzying scientific progress and simmering Cold War conflict. A land without the Justice League—Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Or so it seems.  The masked mystery men who fought for freedom in the Second World War have been outlawed. The soldiers and spies who conducted top-secret missions into the unknown now work in the shadows. And those icons who do still fight on — Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman — operate under hidden agendas and dueling ideologies.  Yet this America needs its heroes more than ever. With darkness gathering on the horizon once more, only a bold new generation of adventurers — young, daring, and dedicated to the better angels of our nature — is equal to the challenge of the New Frontier.  From Eisner Award–winning writer-artist Darwyn Cooke and Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart comes DC: THE NEW FRONTIER — a timeless tale of idealism that has become one of the most acclaimed superhero comics of the 21st century. This edition collects the original 6-issue miniseries together with the JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE NEW FRONTIER SPECIAL.

A no-holds-barred look into the remarkable life and career of the prolific musician, songwriter, and producer behind Eurythmics and dozens of pop hits.   Dave Stewart’s life has been a wild ride—one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up in industrial northern England, he left home for the gritty London streets of the seventies, where he began collaborating and performing with various musicians, including a young waitress named Annie Lennox.   The chemistry between Stewart and Lennox was undeniable, and an intense romance developed. While their passion proved too much offstage, they thrived musically and developed their own sound. They called themselves Eurythmics and launched into global stardom with the massively popular album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).   For the first time, Stewart shares the incredible, high-octane stories of his life in music—the drug-fueled adventures, the A-list collaborations and relationships, and the creative process that brought us blockbusters from Eurythmics like “ Here Comes the Rain Again” and “Would I Lie to You” as well as Tom Petty’s  “Don’t Come Around Here No More,” No Doubt’s “Underneath It All,” Golden Globe winner “Old Habits Die Hard” with Mick Jagger, and many more.   From great friendships and creative partnerships including the group SuperHeavy along with Jagger, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A. R. Rahman, to inspired performances and intimate moments in the studio—Stewart highlights the musicians he admires and calls friends, from Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Elton John, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to Bono, Bon Jovi, and Katy Perry.   With a behind-the-scenes look at Stewart’s innovative endeavors that keep him on the cutting-edge of the music business, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This is a one-of-a-kind  portrait of the creative heart of one of its most gifted and enterprising contributors.With a Foreword by Mick Jagger!

From the Hardcover edition.

Learning musical notation can be intimidating. But regardless of instrument or proficiency in reading music, there's hope and help for all musicians in this practical guide. Writing in a friendly manner that puts readers at ease, author Dave Stewart starts with the basics: staves, clefs, and how to find the notes. He then advances step by step through rhythm, key signatures, chords and intervals, and how to write it all down. This book is useful for novices, seasoned players who never learned to read music, and pros seeking a refresher course.

For those who want to learn the inner workings of music without, as author Dave Stewart notes, “getting bogged down in a lot of fearsome technicalities ” this is an enlightening exploration of the theory and practice of music. Picking up where The Musician's Guide to Reading & Writing Music leaves off, Stewart uses the same amusing style, clear examples, and practical advice to encourage readers not just to read music, but to write some of their own. The book sheds light on tonality, chord sequences, scales and modes, tempo, rhythm, improvisation and composition, chords and chord voicings, MIDI, and more. 128 pages, 6 1/8″ x 9 1/4″

Hillforts are among the most dramatic and visually striking of prehistoric monuments in the British Isles. Dorset, in southern England, is particularly rich in these Iron Age earthwork enclosures, with over 30 examples being so far recorded, including the internationally famous sites of Maiden Castle, Hod Hill, Badbury Rings and Hambledon Hill. Many have been the subject of archaeological investigation, such as the excavations conducted at Maiden Castle in the 1930s by Tessa and Mortimer Wheeler, but few have, to date, been intensively examined. This volume sets out the results of a detailed programme of non-intrusive geophysical survey conducted across the Dorset hillforts, generating detailed subsurface maps of archaeological features, in the hope of better resolving the phasing, form and internal structure of these iconic sites. The dataset presented here not only helps to change our perception of what hillforts were, how they functioned and what went on within them, but also provides a way of assessing their longevity, reconsidering how they were perceived and reused in subsequent periods. Given the oft-cited association between the Dorset enclosures and the Durotriges tribe, who are thought to have occupied the area in the Later Iron Age, serious consideration is also for the first time given to the belief that hillforts formed the focus of conflict between the native tribes and the armies of imperial Rome in the first century AD.

Dave Stewarts Leben war ein wilder Ritt - voller Musik und ausschweifender Partys, durchzogen von einem Strom neuer Ideen und geprägt von unendlichem Schaffensdrang. Schon früh war der gebürtige Nordengländer nach London gegangen, und schon als Teenager stand er bei Elton Johns Label Rocket unter Vertrag. Es folgten erste Platten und Tourneen, doch der große Erfolg wolte sich nicht einstellen. Bis Stewart 1976 auf eine junge Kellnerin traf, die ebenfalls Musik machte. Ihr Name: Annie Lennox.Zwischen Ihnen funkte es sofort - musikalisch wie auch privat. Zwar ging die Liebesbeziehung der beiden schnell wieder in die Brüche, aber ihre Leidenschaft befeuerte ihr gemeinsames musikalisches Schaffen enorm. Als Eurythmics entwickelten sie einen einzigartigen Sound, unterstützt von einem kühlen, androgynen Image, das die Ästhetik der frühen Achtziger entscheidend prägte. Auf Sweet Dreams oder Here Comes The Rain Again folgten viele weitere Hits, und schon bald war Dave Stewart nicht mehr nur der gefeierte Songwriter und musikalische Allrounder in seiner Band, sondern auch ein gefragte Produzent, der unter anderem internationale Top-Acts wie Tom Petty, Jon Bon Jovi, oder Bob Dylan betreute.Nach der Trennung von Eurythmics ging Stewart eine Vielzahl musikalischer Verbindungen ein, schrieb Songs mit Paul McCartney oder Bono und arbeitete mit Stevie Nicks, Bryan Ferry, Bob Geldof oder Celine Dion. 2011 formierte er seine bisher letzte Supergroup: SuperHeavy. Dafür gewann er neben Damian Marley und A.R. Rahman auch Joss Stone und Mick Jagger; das gleichnamige Album schoss in Deutschland auf Platz 2 der Charts. Aber nicht nur seine Karriere war gespickt mit illustren Namen und verrückten Begebenheiten. Stewarts Privatleben war mindestens ebenso wild: Er genoss den Rock''n''Roll-Jetset in vollen zügen und ließ nichts aus. Doch neben den Drogen, den Nahtod-Erfahrungen, den Krankenhausaufenthalten und den rauschenden Partys, sind es vor allem die Begegnungen mit anderen großen Stars, die seine Erinnerungen prägen. Alltag bei Stewart, das bedeutete stets: tagsüber mit Mick Jagger ins Studio und abends eine kleine Dinnerparty mit Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Willis und Prinz Andrew. Ein buntes Stück Musikgeschichte mit faszinierenden Akteuren!