Francis Anthony "Eg" White (born 22 November 1966) is a British musician, songwriter and producer. He started his career in the cowpunk band Yip Yip Coyote in the 1980s and then formed Brother Beyond with his brother, David White, in the late 1980s. In 1990, Eg White recorded the pop album 24 Years of Hunger, and then in 1992 he produced the debut, self-titled album by Kinky Machine. He turned to songwriting in 1997, winning the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2004. In 2008 White worked with Adele on three tracks. In 2009 White was awarded his second Ivor Novello Award for 'Songwriter of the Year'[1] and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "Once", a song he wrote with Cathy Dennis.[2] White started his own record label in 2009.
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| Birth name | Francis Anthony White |
| Born | 22 November 1966 |
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| Instrument(s) | Vocals |
Career edit
Eg White started his career in the band Yip Yip Coyote and then formed Brother Beyond[3] with his brother, David White, in the late 1980s, leaving the latter when they became involved with the songwriting team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, just prior to their chart successes.
In 1990, Eg White collaborated with London model and BMX champion Alice Temple to record the pop album 24 Years of Hunger, which was released in 1991 under the name Eg and Alice and failed to chart.[4] Lack of commercial success did not deter the taste-makers, however, and 24 Years of Hunger was described by Allmusic as "one of the finest, most refined and fully realized recordings of the era, employing a much more sophisticated and romantic style than anything else out of England at the time".[5]
In 1992, White produced the debut, self-titled album by Kinky Machine,[6] then disappeared from the music industry until 1996 when he released his debut solo album Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man,[7] which was unsuccessful.[7]
He turned to songwriting in 1997, providing instrumentation for the sessions of Suggs' solo album The Three Pyramids Club, but it was in 1999 that his career began to take off as a songwriter, musician and producer. His collaborative relationship with Alice Temple continued, the results of which can be heard on her solo debut album Hang Over. He also worked with Icelandic-Italian singer Emiliana Torrini on her debut album Love in the Time of Science and produced British singer-songwriter Mark Abis' album Changing Inside.[citation needed]
White's song "Leave Right Now" was recorded by Will Young in 2003, and reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart. In recognition, White won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically in 2004. He has since enjoyed chart success with acts including Duffy, James Morrison and Joss Stone.[citation needed]
In 2008, White worked with Adele on three tracks which appeared on her first album 19, including the second single "Chasing Pavements".[8]
In 2009, White was awarded his second Ivor Novello Award for 'Songwriter of the Year',[9] and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "Once", a song he wrote with Cathy Dennis.[2] Also in 2010, White reprised his collaborative role with Adele, and with her wrote "Take It All", which appears on her number one album 21.[citation needed]
White started his own record label imprint, Spilt Milk Records, in 2009 – making Lauren Pritchard its first signing, and then signing an exclusive license deal with Island Records to release the album Wasted in Jackson in 2010. The album features collaborations with White, Ed Harcourt and Marcus Mumford (of the band Mumford & Sons). He signed a recording contract with Parlophone Records and released a second album entitled Adventure Man on 18 May 2009.[citation needed]
White has worked with Adele, Kylie Minogue, Lennon Stella, Natalie Imbruglia, Florence and the Machine, Dua Lipa, Tom Odell, Sam Smith, Will Young, James Morrison, Linkin Park, Pink, Joss Stone, Matt Cardle, Maverick Sabre and Rebecca Ferguson.[citation needed]
Songwriting and production edit
| Title | Year | Artist | Album | Songwriter | Producer | |||
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| "Last Train" | 1984 | Yip Yip Coyote | Non-album single | 
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| "I Should Have Lied" | 1986 | Brother Beyond | Get Even |
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| "Say Hello" | 1990 | Breathe | Peace of Mind |
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| "I Hear You're Doing Fine" |
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| "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" |
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| "Got to Get By" |
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| "Shockaholic" | 1993 | Kinky Machine | Kinky Machine |
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| "Candy Deceit" |
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| "Monkey on a String" |
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| "Glitter Bullets" |
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| "Clever?" |
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| "Sister Magpie" |
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| "Blue Polythene" |
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| "10 Second Bionic Man" | 1994 | Bent |
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| "Cut It Down" |
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| "Gooseberry Fool" |
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| "Dolly Mixture Kid" |
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| "Nosebleed" |
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| "Lounge Dummy" |
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| "Pissing in the Snow" |
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| "Alsatians" |
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| "Wet Cigarettes" |
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| "Christopher" |
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| "Chemical Lobby" |
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| "Last Song" |
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| "Chained" | 1998 | Richie Sambora | Undiscovered Soul |
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| "Same Again" | Suggs | Non-album single |
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| "Dead Things" | 1999 | Emiliana Torrini | Love in the Time of Science |
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| "To Be Free" |
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| "Unemployed in Summertime" |
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| "Easy" |
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| "Fingertips" |
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| "Tuna Fish" |
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| "Sea People" |
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| "Nothing Else on Her Mind" | 2001 | Slippry Feet | Freak Time Viewing |
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| "You Might Be Wrong" | Nicole Russo | Through Your Eyes |
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| "Slowly Walk Away" |
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| "Better Day" |
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| "How D'ya Think She'd Feel About It" |
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| "Through My Eyes" |
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| "Stride On" |
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| "Don't Wanna Let You Go" |
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| "Phoney" |
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| "Stop Trying To" |
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| "Nice n' Easy" |
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| "Say It" | 2002 | Alison Moyet | Hometime |
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| "Sugarhigh" | Jade Anderson | Dive Deeper |
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| "Promises" | 2003 | Baz | Psychedelic Love |
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| "Surrender (Your Love)" | Javine | Surrender |
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| "Leave Right Now" | Will Young | Friday's Child |
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| "Going My Way" |
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| "Out of My Mind" |
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| "Legend" | 2004 | Tamyra Gray | The Dreamer |
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| "U've Only Got 1" |
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| "Promise" | Javine | Surrender |
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| "Millions" |
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| "Think Twice" |
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| "Messin'" |
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| "Missing You" |
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| "How Do You Think" | The Brand New Heavies | Allabouthefunk |
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| "Fisherman's Woman" | 2005 | Emiliana Torrini | Fisherman's Woman |
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| "Shiver" | Natalie Imbruglia | Counting Down the Days |
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| "Slow Down" |
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| "The Message" | Nate James | Set the Tone |
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| "Universal" |
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| "Call My Name" | Charlotte Church | Tissues and Issues |
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| "Crazy Stranger" (with Harel Shachal) |
Nicklodemus | Non-album single |
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| "Baby I'm a Fool" | Jo O'Meara | Relentless |
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| "Keep On" | Will Young | Keep On |
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| "Who Am I" |
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| "Save Yourself" |
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| "Think About It" |
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| "Give In" | 2006 | Tina Dico | In the Red |
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| "Use Me" |
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| "What Are We Waiting For?" | Duncan James | Future Past |
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| "You Can" |
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| "You Give Me Something" | James Morrison | Undiscovered |
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| "Wonderful World" |
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| "Call the Police" |
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| "Go" | Jamelia | Walk with Me |
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| "Mancunian Way" | Take That | Beautiful World |
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| "No Man's Land" | 2007 | Beverley Knight | Music City Soul |
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| "Just a Little Bit" | Mutya Buena | Real Girl |
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| "Choke" | Nate James | Kingdom Falls |
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| "The Sun is Always Behind Me" | Darren Hayes | This Delicate Thing We've Made |
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| "I'll Take Everything" | James Blunt | All the Lost Souls |
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| "Friday Night" | Craig David | Trust Me |
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| "Cosmic" | Kylie Minogue | X |
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| "Chasing Pavements" | 2008 | Adele | 19 |
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| "Tomorrow" | Duffy | Non-album single |
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| "Je realise" (featuring James Blunt) |
Sinik | Le Toit Du Monde |
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| "Warwick Avenue" | Duffy | Rockferry |
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| "Hanging on Too Long" |
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| "Delayed Devotion" |
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| "Melt My Heart to Stone" | Adele | 19 |
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| "Tired" |
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| "Jones" | Brian McFadden | Set in Stone |
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| "Alice in Wonderland" |
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| "Waiting for Time" | Sam Sparro | Sam Sparro |
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| "Hot Mess" |
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| "Sad, Sad World" | Amy Studt | My Paper Made Men |
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| "One Last Cigarette" |
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| "You Think I Don't Care" | Jack McManus | Either Side of Midnight |
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| "Rising Up" | Amanda Jenssen | Killing My Darlings |
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| "Begger's Prayer" | Emiliana Torrini | Me and Armini |
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| "What You Look For" | Sam Beeton | No Definite Answer |
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| "Changes" | Will Young | Let It Go |
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| "Tell Me the Worst" |
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| "I Won't Give Up" |
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| "Let It Go" |
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| "Everything" | Murs | Murs for President |
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| "One Foot Wrong" | P!nk | Funhouse |
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| "Could've Had Everything" |
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| "Love, Love, Love" | James Blunt | All the Lost Souls |
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| "Water and a Flame" (featuring Adele) |
2009 | Daniel Merriweather | Love & War |
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| "Giving Everything Away for Free" |
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| "Not Now" | Little Boots | Illuminations EP |
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| "Hurricane Drunk" | Florence and the Machine | Lungs |
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| "Dream on Hayley" | James Morrison | Songs for You, Truths for Me |
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| "Bring it Back" | Kris Allen | Kris Allen |
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| "Once" | 2010 | Diana Vickers | Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree |
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| "You Don't Know Me" | Alan Pownall | True Love Stories |
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| "Not the Drinking" | Lauren Pritchard | Wasted in Jackson |
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| "if Time is All I Have" | James Blunt | Some Kind of Trouble |
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| "Turn Me On" |
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| "Recover" | Natasha Bedingfield | Strip Me |
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| "Yeah Right" (featuring Diggy Simmons) |
2011 | Dionne Bromfield | Good for the Soul |
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| "Two" | Lenka | Two |
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| "Here to Stay" |
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| "This Love Again" | James Blunt | Non-album single |
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| "Treading Water" | Alex Clare | The Lateless of the Hour |
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| "Foolin'" (featuring Lil Twist) |
Dionne Bromfield | Good for the Soul |
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| "Hands Are Clever" | Alex Clare | The Lateless of the Hour |
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| "Sadness is Coming" | Alice Gold | Seven Rainbows |
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| "End of the World" |
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| "Forever" | James Morrison | The Awakening |
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| "All for Nothing" | Matt Cardle | Letters |
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| "Slowly" |
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| "What the Water Gave Me" | Florence and the Machine | Ceremonials |
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| "Nothing's Real but Love" | Rebecca Ferguson | Heaven |
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| "Shoulder to Shoulder" |
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| "Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way)" |
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| "Fighting Suspicions" |
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| "Too Good to Lose" |
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| "I Used to Have It All" | 2012 | Maverick Sabre | Lonely Are the Brave |
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| "Black & Blue" | Paloma Faith | Fall to Grace |
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| "Beauty of the End" |
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| "Chaos & Piss" | P!nk | The Truth About Love |
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| "The Fire" | Matt Cardle | The Fire |
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| "Habit" | Tulisa | The Female Boss |
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| "Worth Your While" | 2013 | Jamie N Commons | Rumble and Sway EP |
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| "No Strings" | Chloe Howl | Chloe Howl |
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| "Hold Me" | Tom Odell | Long Way Down |
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| "Nothing" | Josh Krajcik | Blindly, Lonely, Lovely |
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| "When You Go" |
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| "Don't Make Me Hopeful" |
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| "No Man's Land" | Leanne Mitchell | Leanne Mitchell |
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| "Sense" | Tom Odell | Long Way Down |
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| "You My Everything" | Ellie Goulding | Halcyon Days |
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| "Water and a Flame" | Celine Dion | Loved Me Back to Life |
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| "Didn't Know Love" |
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| "Fake Smile" | Rebecca Ferguson | Freedom |
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| "My Freedom" |
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| "Girls and Boys" | 2014 | Chloe Howl | Chloe Howl |
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| "Good Thing" | Sam Smith | In the Lonely Hour |
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| "I've Told You Now" |
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| "Disappointed" | Chloe Howl | Chloe Howl |
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| "Sugar Lies" (featuring Ben Weinman) |
Kimbra | The Golden Echo |
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| "The Magic Hour" |
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| "Baby, Happy Birthday" | Train | Bulletproof Picasso |
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| "Therapy" | Mary J Blige | The London Sessions |
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| "Takes Me a Long Time" | Chloe Howl | Chloe Howl |
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| "When You're Gone" | Mary J Blige | The London Sessions |
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| "See You Again" | 2015 | Elle King | Love Stuff |
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| "No More You (Interlude)" | Alexandra Burke | Renegade EP |
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| "Fight for Love" | Kwabs | Love + War |
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| "I Am" | Leona Lewis | I Am |
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| "You Knew Me When" |
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| "Stay Like This" | James Morrison | Higher Than Here |
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| "We Can" |
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| "Easy Love" |
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| "Purple Hearts (Soldier of Love)" | CeeLo Green | Heart Blanche |
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| "Only Water" | 2016 | Lawson | Perspective |
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| "For Julian" | Dua Lipa | Non-album single |
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| "Pay for It" | Rebecca Ferguson | Superwoman |
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| "How Can I Blame You" | John Legend | Darkness and Light |
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| "Blindside" | 2017 | Aquilo | Silhouettes |
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| "Words with Friends" | Fountaineer | Greater City, Greater Love |
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| "Choice" | Charlotte OC | Careless People |
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| "The Cricketers" | Fountaineer | Greater City, Greater Love |
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| "One More Light" | Linkin Park | One More Light |
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| "Deserve to Be Loved" | Zak Abel | Only When We're Naked |
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| "Blind Eye" | Sam Smith | The Thrill of It All |
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| "Lost and Lonely" | Paloma Faith | The Architect |
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| "Tonight's Not the Only Night" |
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| "Not That Special" | 2018 | Lily Moore | Not That Special EP |
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| "Raining Glitter" | Kylie Minogue | Golden |
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| "Sepia" | Plan B | Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose |
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| "Brake Lights" (featuring Nao) |
Cosha | R.I.P. Bonzai |
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| "Fast Forward" | You Me at Six | VI |
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| "Aboard" | Tom Grennan | Lighting Matches |
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| "Solid Gold" | Alex Hepburn | If You Stay |
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| "I Will Never Be" | Lily Moore | I Will Never Be EP |
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| "Like Everybody Else" | Lennon Stella | Non-album single |
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| "It's the Weekend" | Kovacs | Cheap Smell |
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| "Midnight Medicine" |
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| "Do This for Me" | Lily Moore | I Will Never Be EP |
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| "Losing You" | You Me at Six | VI |
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| "Got My Own" | Ray BLK | Empress |
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| "A Life Like This" | Nao | Saturn |
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| "Between the Words" (with Matt Maeson) |
Devault | Stay EP |
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| "Loyal" | 2019 | Jasmine Thompson | Colour EP |
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| "Take Care" |
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| "Power" | James Morrison | You're Stronger Than You Know |
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| "Slowly" |
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| "Cross the Line" |
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| "Into Hope" | Maverick Sabre | When I Wake Up |
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| "More" | Jasmine Thompson | Colour EP |
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| "Hurt Me Once" | Ben Platt | Sing to Me Instead |
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| "Some People" | Jasmine Thompson | Colour EP |
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| "Colour (Amen)" |
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| "This is What We Wanted" | Izzy Bizu | Glita EP |
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| "I Will Be Stronger" | Céline Dion | Courage |
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| "Better Than I Am" | 2020 | Keith Urban | The Speed of Now Part 1 |
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| "Moving On" | Sea Girls | Open Up Your Head |
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Awards and nominations edit
| Year | Institution | Award |
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| 2009 | Ivor Novello Awards | Songwriter of the Year[3] |
| 2004 | Ivor Novello Awards | Best Song Musically and Lyrically ("Leave Right Now")[10] |
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| 2009 | Grammy Awards | Song of the Year & Record of the Year ("Chasing Pavements")[11] |
Eg and Alice discography edit
- Singles
- "Indian" c/w "Crosstown and Bobby and Holly" (WEA 1991) - did not chart
- "Doesn't Mean That Much to Me" (WEA 1991) - did not chart
- Album
- 24 Years of Hunger (WEA 1991) - did not chart
Solo discography edit
Singles edit
- 1995: "Stay Home" (WEA)
- 1997: "Made My Baby Cry" (WEA)
- 2009: "Broken" (Parlophone Records)
- 2015: "You Fooled Me" (Lakeshore Records)
Albums edit
- Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man (WEA, 1996)
- Adventure Man (Spilt Milk, 2009) – featuring Louis Eliot, Aret Komlosy, Neil Hannon, Ricky Ross, Matt Marston, Alice Temple, and Jack Hues
First review found at Daily Music Guide.[12]
References edit
- ^ "2009 Ivor Novello awards: The winners". BBC News. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ a b Sexton, Paul (17 May 2011). "AC/DC's 'Iron Man 2' Powers To U.K. No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ a b McCormick, Neil (21 May 2009). "Francis 'Eg' White interview: the craftsman behind pop's perfect songs". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 October 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ Allen, Liam (22 May 2009). "Songwriter White craves stage". BBC News. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ Swihart, Stanton. "Eg & Alice - biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Kinky Machine - Kinky Machine : Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ a b "CAN EG WHITE FINALLY CRACK THE CHARTS?". Daily Express. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Write me a hit by teatime: the world of professional songwriters". The Guardian. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ^ "2009 Ivor Novello awards: The winners". BBC News. 21 May 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ Burrows, Robin. "Eg White - Adventure Man Album Review". contactmusic.com. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ "Grammy Scorecard". Los Angeles Times. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
- ^ Spencer, David (26 April 2009). "Eg White - Adventure Man (Parlophone)". dailymusicguide.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
External links edit
- Spilt Milk Management Archived 15 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine