Steve Lillywhite

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Lillywhite
Occupation	Record Producer
Date Of Birth	Mar 15, 1955(1955-03-15)
Age	69
Birthplace	Egham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Steve Lillywhite Biography

Steve Lillywhite is one of the most popular and richest Record Producer who was born on March 15, 1955 in Egham, England, United Kingdom. Stephen Alan Lillywhite, CBE (born 15 March 1955) is a famous English record producer from the UK. Since he started his career in 1977 Lillywhite has been featured on more than 500 albums and has worked with a wide range of artists, including the new wave group XTC, Big Country, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Simple Minds, the Psychedelic Furs, Toyah, David Byrne, Talking Heads and Kirsty MacColl, aswell as U2 and The Rolling Stones, the Pogues, Blue October, Steel Pulse, Peter Gabriel, Morrissey and the Killers, Dave Matthews Band, Phish, Counting Crows and Joan Armatrading. He has been awarded Six Grammy Awards, including the Producer of the Year award in 2006 and was named an Commander of the Order of The British Empire (CBE) in 2012 for his contribution to the world of music.

In the 90s Lillywhite recorded the multi-platinum Albums Under the Table and Dreaming, Crash, and Before These Crowded Streets by the Dave Matthews Band. In 1991 the producer continued to work with Morrissey and co-produced tracks of the U2 album Achtung Baby, working alongside Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Flood. The same year, He came back to Dublin to work on Engine Alley’s first album titled A Sonic Holiday, and Kirsty MacColl provided the additional vocals, this one for”Song For Someone” “Song for Someone”. Also, he produced album for Travis and The La’s, as well as the first album (and sole album) of The La’s. He also recorded Phish’s Billy Breathes, and he returned to record Joy in 2009.

In 2000, Lillywhite was fired from the fourth album by the Dave Matthews Band after band members cited creative differences. In 2001, a number of their recordings emerged on a bootleg album, known now as The Lillywhite Sessions; many of the songs from those recordings followed later, on the Dave Matthews Band’s album Busted Stuff. The unfinished tracks appeared online, and the majority of the tracks were re-recorded, without Lillywhite, with Stephen Harris as the preferred choice by the band.

In 2002, Universal Music Group head Lucian Grainge invited Lillywhite to become managing director. Lillywhite signed singer-songwriter Darius Danesh and served as executive producer for his debut album Dive In, which spawned three Top 10 hits, and Mercury Records’ first number one in eighteen years. He also signed Razorlight, and also produced Jason Mraz’s Mr. A-Z.

As of 1987, Lillywhite collaborated with the Pogues in the production of “Fairytale of New York”. Lillywhite’s wife Kirsty MacColl sang the female lead vocals for the songthat was the biggest hit for the band. The single was just a hair short of being the UK top Christmas single, yet it was one of the most popular selling albums of the year. The track “Cotton Fields”, from the Pogues 1989 record Peace and Love (also produced by Lillywhite) contains the reference of “Steve Lillywhite’s drunken mix”.

Steve Lillywhite Net Worth

Steve Lillywhite is one of the richest Record Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Lillywhite 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lillywhite started his career in the industry in 1972 while working as an operator of tapes for Polygram. He created a demo album for Ultravox which resulted in the band being offered a recording deal for the record label Island Records. Lillywhite later was hired by Island as a producer on staff and worked with some of the most prominent New Wave musicians such as his brother’s band, The Members, and guitarist Johnny Thunders, for whom the album he recorded was his own entitled So Alone. The first commercial success he had was in the month of August 1978 when he was the producer for “Hong Kong Garden”, the first single by Siouxsie The Banshees and Siouxsie. He also co- produced “Ku Klux Klan”, the first single Steel Pulse released on Island Records in 1978. The year 1979 was the time he had two hits on Virgin Records with The Members including the Surrey song “Sound of the Suburbs” and the protest reggae classic “Offshore Banking Business”. Lillywhite and Engineer Hugh Padgham began working with The band XTC in the months of June and July 1979, at Townhouse Studios in London for Virgin Records. The result: XTC’s 3rd studio album Drums and Wires was released on the 17th of August 1979 “Making Plans for Nigel” the track from the album, reached the top spot of 17th place at the top of the UK Singles Chart in the autumn of the year. It’s a classic instance of the distinctive big drum sound of Lillywhite and Padgham.

In February 1980, Psychedelic Furs’ self-titled debut album was released. It was made by Lillywhite. He also co-produced Peter Gabriel’s highly acclaimed 3rd solo record Peter Gabriel (also known as III or Melt) that first came out in of 1980 and debuted at the top of the UK album charts. The album established Gabriel to be “one of rock’s most ambitious, innovative musicians” and “raised considerably” Lillywhite’s profile. When he recorded U2, he invented (with Gabriel and engineer Hugh Padgham) the”gated” reverb sound that became the hallmark in Phil Collins’ solo career. Later that period, Boy, the debut album by U2 was released, composed by Lillywhite. Lillywhite’s work in the band U2 was continued in the release of November and War. The producer went on to create music with Bruce Foxton (of The Jam), Big Country, XTC, The Chameleons, Toyah, Talking Heads, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Morrissey, The Rolling Stones and the Shine album of former ABBA vocalist Anni Fred Lyngstad. Lillywhite was also employed by Rush to record their 1984 album Grace Under Pressure but, to their dismay and discontent, he resigned from the project to join forces in conjunction with Simple Minds. Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee along with Neil Peart referred to Lillywhite as a man who was not on the word of keeping his word on the project that was already planned.

Lilywhite was featured as the subject for a BBC Radio 1 documentary series on record producers. In 1999, he produced the US band Guster’s Lost and Gone Forever.

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Who is Steve Lillywhite Dating?

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In November 2009, he began presenting his own weekly radio show on East Village Radio called “The Lillywhite Sessions”.

Facts & Trivia

Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Record Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Steve Lillywhite celebrates birthday on March 15 of every year.

In 2011, Bono & The Edge brought Lillywhite in to produce the Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark cast recording for Interscope.