Stephen Street
| Stephen Street | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Stephen Brian Street |
| Born |
29 March 1960 Hackney, London |
| Genres | Pop, rock |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Website | Stephen Street's Official Website |
Stephen Brian Street (born 29 March 1960 in Hackney, London) is an English music producer best known for his work with The Smiths, The Cranberries and Blur. Street also collaborated with Morrissey on his debut album Viva Hate following the split of The Smiths.
More recently he has worked with Kaiser Chiefs, Babyshambles and The Courteeners.
For a time, he was managed by Gail Colson's company, Gailforce Management.
Street began his musical career in the late 1970s playing in various bands around London. He played bass in a ska/pop group, BIM, with future Neneh Cherry/Massive Attack producer, Cameron McVey. The band were featured in the "Listen to London" documentary film. Street started at Island Records' Fallout Shelter Studio in 1982 firstly as an "in-house assistant" and then as an "in-house engineer".
One of Street's first jobs as in-house engineer was for a session for The Smiths's "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" and commented in a HitQuarters interview, "I'd seen them just shortly beforehand on Top of the Pops doing 'This Charming Man', and like most other people around that time who were into music I was really excited by them." Although Street didn't work on the subsequent recording "William, It Was Really Nothing", he was asked to engineer their next album, Meat Is Murder, with Morrissey and Marr producing for the first time.
During this time he also engineered for reggae artists including Black Uhuru and Linton Kwesi Johnson, and for jùjú musician King Sunny Adé. He also helped produce and mix several tracks on Stephen Duffy's first two albums, The Ups and the Downs in 1985 and Because We Love You in 1986. Twelve years later, he would again work with Duffy on his 1998 album I Love My Friends.
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