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Stephen Fitzmaurice is an Irish mixer and producer based in London, England. His credits include albums for Depeche Mode, Seal, Sam Smith, Ian Brown, Kylie Minogue,Mónica Naranjo,Sting, Paloma Faith, Olly Murs, The Kooks, Alicia Keys, U2, Hikaru Utada,Mr.Children, Edyta Gorniak.

As a teenager, Fitzmaurice moved from Dublin to London, where he began working at Sarm Studios with producer Trevor Horn and mixer Julian Mendelsohn. He later moved to New York where he worked on records by Jodeci, Eric Clapton and young upcoming artists, including Timbaland and Missy Elliott.

Since becoming a freelance mix engineer and producer, Fitzmaurice has won and been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. Fitzmaurice co-produced and mixed the first ever Number One James Bond track and Oscar-winning song, "Writing's On The Wall". He also mixed Falling Slowly by The Frames, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards.

Awards

Seal - Kiss from a Rose - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind - Best Rock Album - Grammy Winner
Sam Smith - Stay with Me - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour - Best Pop Album - Grammy Winner

Songwriting and production credits

Title	Year	Artist	Album	Songwriter	Producer
Title	Year	Artist	Album	Songwriter	Primary	Secondary	Additional	Vocal
"Ripped Inside"	1992	Tasmin Archer	Great Expectations		Y
"Deliver Me"	1996	The Beloved	X				Y
"That Concludes Our Broadcast Day"	1996	John Ottman	The Cable Guy OST		Y
"Steal My Body Home"	1999	The Frames	Pavement Tune EP		Y
"Look Back Now"			Pavement Tune EP		Y
"Plateau"			Dance the Devil		Y
"Neath the Beaches"					Y
"Dance the Devil Back into His Hole"					Y
"Taking the Hard Way Out"			Rent Day Blues EP		Y
"It's a Shame"	2000	Lee Griffiths	Northern Songs		Y
"Lay Lady Lay" (with Gemma Hayes)	2004	Magnet	Non-album single				Y
"On My Knees" (featuring Ghostface Killah)	2004	The 411	Between the Sheets				Y
"Easy Way Out"	2005	Charlotte Church	Tissues and Issues				Y
"Love Show"	2006	Skye	Mind How You Go				Y
"Les Mots Simples" (with Brett Anderson)	2008	Emmanuelle Seigner	Non-album single				Y
"So Called Summer"	2008	Team Waterpolo				Y
"Room 44"	2009	Team Waterpolo				Y
"New York"		Paloma Faith	Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?				Y
"Luv Ya"		Paloma Faith	Non-album single		Y
"Coming Home"	2010	Lemar	The Hits				Y
"Ask Me to Stay"	2010	Olly Murs	Olly Murs				Y
"I Need a Dollar"	2011	Aloe Blacc	Good Things				Y
"I'm OK"		Olly Murs	In Case You Didn't Know				Y
"Anywhere Else"		Olly Murs	In Case You Didn't Know				Y
"Troubled Heart"	2012	Skye	Back to Life		Y
"Sign of Life"					Y
"Featherlight"					Y
"Nowhere"					Y
"Little Bit Lost"					Y
"We Fall Down"					Y
"Every Little Lie"					Y
"High Life"					Y
"Dissolve"					Y
"Bright Light"					Y
"Lay Me Down"	2013	Sam Smith	In the Lonely Hour		Y
"Stay with Me"	2014						Y
"Leave Your Lover"					Y
"I'm Not the Only One"					Y
"I've Told You Now"					Y
"Like I Can"					Y
"Make It to Me"					Y
"Heart on Fire"		Indiana	No Romeo				Y
"Therapy"		Mary J Blige	The London Sessions		Y
"Not Loving You"					Y
"Worth My Time"					Y
"Grow"	2015	Frances	Things I've Never Said		Y
"Writing's on the Wall"		Sam Smith	Non-album single		Y
"Let It Out"		Frances	Things I've Never Said		Y
"Sat Sail"		Frances	Let It Out EP		Y
"Drowning Shadows"		Sam Smith	In the Lonely Hour: Drowning Shadows Edition		Y
"Love Is a Losing Game"					Y
"Omen" (Acoustic)					Y
"Make It on My Own"	2016	Eliza and the Bear	Eliza and the Bear		Y
"Light It Up"					Y
"It Gets Cold"					Y
"Brother's Boat"					Y
"Talk"					Y
"Don't Worry About Me"		Frances	Things I've Never Said		Y
"Say It Again"							Y
"Under Our Feet"	2017				Y
"What is Love?"			Fifty Shades Darker OST		Y
"Love Me Again"			Things I've Never Said		Y
"Drifting"					Y
"Cloud 9"					Y
"Sublime"					Y
"The Last Word"					Y
"It Isn't Like You"					Y
"Cry Like Me"					Y
"The Smallest Thing"					Y
"Too Good at Goodbyes"		Sam Smith	The Thrill of It All		Y
"Say It First"					Y
"One Last Song"					Y
"Midnight Train"					Y
"Burning"					Y
"Him"					Y
"Baby, You Make Me Crazy"					Y
"No Peace" (featuring Yebba)					Y
"Pray"					Y
"Nothing Left for You"					Y
"The Thrill of It All"					Y
"Scars"							Y
"One Day at a Time"					Y
"Daniel"	2018		Revamp & Restoration		Y
"Depend on It"	2018	Liam Payne	First Time EP		Y

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-'''Stephen Fitzmaurice''' is an Irish [[Grammy Award]]-winning  [[Audio engineering|mixer]] and [[Record producer|producer]] based in [[London]], England. His credits include albums for [[Depeche Mode]], [[Seal (musician)|Seal]], [[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]], [[Ian Brown]], [[Kylie Minogue]], [[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Paloma Faith]], [[Olly Murs]], [[The Kooks]], [[Alicia Keys]], [[U2]], [[Utada Hikaru]], and [[Mr._Children|Mr.Children]].
+'''Stephen Fitzmaurice''' is an Irish [[Audio engineering|mixer]] and [[Record producer|producer]] based in [[London]], England. His credits include albums for [[Depeche Mode]], [[Seal (musician)|Seal]], [[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]], [[Ian Brown]], [[Kylie Minogue]],[[Mónica Naranjo]],[[Sting (musician)|Sting]], [[Paloma Faith]], [[Olly Murs]], [[The Kooks]], [[Alicia Keys]], [[U2]], [[Hikaru Utada]],[[Mr. Children|Mr.Children]], [[Edyta Gorniak]].
-As a teenager, Fitzmaurice moved from [[Dublin]] to London, where he began working at [[Sarm Studios]] with legendary producer [[Trevor Horn]] and mixer [[Julian Mendelsohn]]. He later moved to New York  where he worked on records by [[Jodeci]], [[Eric Clapton]] and young upcoming artists, including [[Timbaland]] and [[Missy Elliott], The Rug Munchers ("where's my bat mum?"), Johnny Bontempi and the Electric Pencils ("24 Hour Garage"). And the solid gold hit that is "Give Me Your Girlfriend, I haven't Had Lunch Yet" performed by Mick Hucknall and Gino di Campo - who also penned a deep apology for burgling Paul Young's extensive vintage collection of very rare guitars.
+As a teenager, Fitzmaurice moved from [[Dublin]] to London, where he began working at [[Sarm Studios]] with producer [[Trevor Horn]] and mixer [[Julian Mendelsohn]]. He later moved to New York  where he worked on records by [[Jodeci]], [[Eric Clapton]] and young upcoming artists, including [[Timbaland]] and [[Missy Elliott]].
-Since becoming a freelance Mix Engineer and Producer, Fitzmaurice has won and been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. Fitzmaurice also Co-Produced and Mixed the first ever Number One James Bond Track and Oscar Winning Song, [[Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith song)| Writing's On The Wall]]. He also mixed [[Falling Slowly]] by [[The Frames]], which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards. In the wake of his stellar success, due to his various awards, Steve gave up making music, about ten minutes ago, to begin cultivating a human sex-farm - focussing primarily on the grooming of children and tiny animals... who may one day cross-breed and create new, weird creatures. He is also the first dilettante zoologist to have claimed he has experienced deep, meaningful, sexual intercourse with a wasp. This is, of course, all speculation. But, it is rumoured that he sampled the sound of the aforementioned wasp (in anguish as he battled the cruelty of his experiment and the loss of hi dignity) in order to make Sam Smith sound just a little bit more interesting than a Saturday manager of a provincial Carphone Warehouse. His next project will be to form a choir of amphibians to protest his innocence in crimes against music. Fitzmaurice currently lives in a tree with an amorous owl who can't cook. His work as a producer has been compared to the calamitous clatter of a drunk, Irish scaffolder. But he is rich, lives in Notting Hill and is tackling a rare illness that causes delusions of grandeur and erectile disfunction.
+Since becoming a freelance mix engineer and producer, Fitzmaurice has won and been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards. Fitzmaurice co-produced and mixed the first ever Number One James Bond track and Oscar-winning song, "[[Writing's on the Wall (Sam Smith song)|Writing's On The Wall]]". He also mixed [[Falling Slowly]] by [[The Frames]], which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards.
 ==Awards==
-*[[Seal (musician)|Seal]] - Kiss From A Rose - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
+*[[Seal (musician)|Seal]] - Kiss from a Rose - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
 *[[U2]] - All That You Can't Leave Behind - Best Rock Album - Grammy Winner
-*[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]] - Stay With Me - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
+*[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]] - Stay with Me - Record Of The Year - Grammy Winner
-*[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]] - In The Lonely Hour - Best Pop Album - Grammy Winner
+*[[Sam Smith (singer)|Sam Smith]] - In the Lonely Hour - Best Pop Album - Grammy Winner
-==Songwriting and Production Credits==
+==Songwriting and production credits==
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