Eg White

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Eg White
Birth name	Francis Anthony White
Born	(1966-11-22) 22 November 1966
Genres	Pop rock
Occupations	Musician songwriter producer
Instrument	Vocals

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' and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "Once", a song he wrote with Cathy Dennis. White started his own record label in 2009.

Biography

Eg White started his career in the band Yip Yip Coyote and then formed Brother Beyond 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 critically acclaimed pop album 24 Years of Hunger, which was released in 1991 under the name Eg and Alice and failed to chart. 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".

In 1992, White produced the debut, self-titled album by Kinky Machine, then disappeared from the music industry until 1996 when he released his debut solo album Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man, which was unsuccessful.

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 he became a songwriter, musician and producer in hot demand. 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.

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 enduring chart success with acts including Duffy, James Morrison and Joss Stone.

In 2008, White worked with Adele on three tracks which appeared on her first album 19, including the second single "Chasing Pavements". White is known in the industry for his pace of work and ability to reach the core of the intent of the artist he is working with, saying "Sometimes I get two hours. Someone comes over at three, we have a cup of tea, chew the cud for a bit, go: 'All right, shall we write a song?' And by six, they've gone home and we've...done it. Chasing Pavements, that took two or three hours."

In 2009, White was awarded his second Ivor Novello Award for 'Songwriter of the Year', and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "Once", a song he wrote with Cathy Dennis. 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.

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. The instrumental version of the lead single, "Broken" was used as the incidental music to the BMW PGA Championship 2009 and played during the closing credits of BBC's coverage of England's final game in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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.

Songwriting and production

Title	Year	Artist	Album	Songwriter	Producer
					Primary	Secondary	Additional	Vocal
"Last Train"	1984	Yip Yip Coyote	Non-album single	Y
"I Should Have Lied"	1986	Brother Beyond	Get Even	Y
"Say Hello"	1990	Breathe	Peace of Mind	Y
"I Hear You're Doing Fine"				Y
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"				Y
"Got to Get By"				Y
"Shockaholic"	1993	Kinky Machine	Kinky Machine		Y
"Candy Deceit"					Y
"Monkey on a String"					Y
"Glitter Bullets"					Y
"Clever?"					Y
"Sister Magpie"					Y
"Blue Polythene"					Y
"10 Second Bionic Man"	1994		Bent		Y
"Cut It Down"					Y
"Gooseberry Fool"					Y
"Dolly Mixture Kid"					Y
"Nosebleed"					Y
"Lounge Dummy"					Y
"Pissing in the Snow"					Y
"Alsatians"					Y
"Wet Cigarettes"					Y
"Christopher"					Y
"Chemical Lobby"					Y
"Last Song"					Y
"Chained"	1998	Richie Sambora	Undiscovered Soul	Y
"Same Again"		Suggs	Non-album single		Y
"Dead Things"	1999	Emiliana Torrini	Love in the Time of Science	Y
"To Be Free"				Y
"Unemployed in Summertime"				Y
"Easy"				Y
"Fingertips"				Y
"Tuna Fish"				Y
"Sea People"				Y	Y
"Nothing Else on Her Mind"	2001	Slippry Feet	Freak Time Viewing	Y
"You Might Be Wrong"		Nicole Russo	Through Your Eyes	Y	Y
"Slowly Walk Away"				Y
"Better Day"				Y	Y
"How D'ya Think She'd Feel About It"				Y	Y
"Through My Eyes"				Y	Y
"Stride On"					Y
"Don't Wanna Let You Go"				Y
"Phoney"				Y
"Stop Trying To"				Y	Y
"Nice n' Easy"				Y	Y
"Say It"	2002	Alison Moyet	Hometime	Y
"Sugarhigh"		Jade Anderson	Dive Deeper		Y
"Promises"	2003	Baz	Psychedelic Love	Y
"Surrender (Your Love)"		Javine	Surrender	Y	Y
"Leave Right Now"		Will Young	Friday's Child	Y
"Going My Way"				Y	Y
"Out of My Mind"				Y
"Legend"	2004	Tamyra Gray	The Dreamer	Y
"U've Only Got 1"				Y
"Promise"		Javine	Surrender	Y	Y
"Millions"				Y	Y
"Think Twice"				Y	Y
"Messin'"				Y	Y
"Missing You"				Y	Y
"How Do You Think"		The Brand New Heavies	Allabouthefunk	Y
"Fisherman's Woman"	2005	Emiliana Torrini	Fisherman's Woman	Y
"Shiver"		Natalie Imbruglia	Counting Down the Days	Y
"Slow Down"				Y	Y
"The Message"		Nate James	Set the Tone	Y	Y
"Universal"				Y	Y
"Call My Name"		Charlotte Church	Tissues and Issues	Y	Y
"Crazy Stranger" (with Harel Shachal)		Nicklodemus	Non-album single	Y
"Baby I'm a Fool"		Jo O'Meara	Relentless	Y	Y
"Keep On"		Will Young	Keep On	Y
"Who Am I"				Y
"Save Yourself"				Y			Y
"Think About It"				Y
"Give In"	2006	Tina Dico	In the Red	Y
"Use Me"				Y
"What Are We Waiting For?"		Duncan James	Future Past	Y	Y
"You Can"				Y	Y
"You Give Me Something"		James Morrison	Undiscovered	Y	Y
"Wonderful World"				Y
"Call the Police"				Y
"Go"		Jamelia	Walk with Me	Y
"Mancunian Way"		Take That	Beautiful World	Y
"No Man's Land"	2007	Beverley Knight	Music City Soul	Y	Y
"Just a Little Bit"		Mutya Buena	Real Girl	Y	Y
"Choke"		Nate James	Kingdom Falls	Y	Y
"The Sun is Always Behind Me"		Darren Hayes	This Delicate Thing We've Made	Y	Y
"I'll Take Everything"		James Blunt	All the Lost Souls	Y
"Friday Night"		Craig David	Trust Me	Y
"Cosmic"		Kylie Minogue	X	Y	Y
"Chasing Pavements"	2008	Adele	19	Y	Y
"Tomorrow"		Duffy	Non-album single	Y
"Je realise" (featuring James Blunt)		Sinik	Le Toit Du Monde	Y
"Warwick Avenue"		Duffy	Rockferry	Y
"Hanging on Too Long"				Y
"Delayed Devotion"				Y
"Melt My Heart to Stone"		Adele	19	Y	Y
"Tired"				Y	Y
"Jones"		Brian McFadden	Set in Stone	Y
"Alice in Wonderland"				Y	Y
"Waiting for Time"		Sam Sparro	Sam Sparro	Y	Y
"Hot Mess"				Y	Y
"Sad, Sad World"		Amy Studt	My Paper Made Men	Y
"One Last Cigarette"				Y
"You Think I Don't Care"		Jack McManus	Either Side of Midnight	Y	Y
"Rising Up"		Amanda Jenssen	Killing My Darlings	Y
"Begger's Prayer"		Emiliana Torrini	Me and Armini	Y	Y
"What You Look For"		Sam Beeton	No Definite Answer	Y
"Changes"		Will Young	Let It Go	Y	Y
"Tell Me the Worst"				Y
"I Won't Give Up"				Y	Y
"Let It Go"				Y	Y
"Everything"		Murs	Murs for President	Y
"One Foot Wrong"		P!nk	Funhouse	Y	Y
"Could've Had Everything"				Y	Y
"Love, Love, Love"		James Blunt	All the Lost Souls	Y	Y
"Water and a Flame" (featuring Adele)	2009	Daniel Merriweather	Love & War	Y	Y
"Giving Everything Away for Free"				Y	Y
"Not Now"		Little Boots	Illuminations EP	Y
"Hurricane Drunk"		Florence and the Machine	Lungs	Y	Y
"Dream on Hayley"		James Morrison	Songs for You, Truths for Me	Y	Y
"Bring it Back"		Kris Allen	Kris Allen	Y	Y
"Once"	2010	Diana Vickers	Songs from the Tainted Cherry Tree	Y
"You Don't Know Me"		Alan Pownall	True Love Stories	Y
"Not the Drinking"		Lauren Pritchard	Wasted in Jackson	Y	Y
"if Time is All I Have"		James Blunt	Some Kind of Trouble	Y
"Turn Me On"				Y	Y
"Recover"		Natasha Bedingfield	Strip Me	Y
"Yeah Right" (featuring Diggy Simmons)	2011	Dionne Bromfield	Good for the Soul	Y
"Two"		Lenka	Two	Y	Y
"Here to Stay"				Y	Y
"This Love Again"		James Blunt	Non-album single	Y	Y
"Treading Water"		Alex Clare	The Lateless of the Hour	Y
"Foolin'" (featuring Lil Twist)		Dionne Bromfield	Good for the Soul	Y
"Hands Are Clever"		Alex Clare	The Lateless of the Hour	Y	Y
"Sadness is Coming"		Alice Gold	Seven Rainbows	Y
"End of the World"				Y
"Forever"		James Morrison	The Awakening	Y
"All for Nothing"		Matt Cardle	Letters	Y	Y
"Slowly"				Y	Y
"What the Water Gave Me"		Florence and the Machine	Ceremonials	Y
"Nothing's Real but Love"		Rebecca Ferguson	Heaven	Y	Y
"Shoulder to Shoulder"				Y	Y
"Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way)"				Y	Y
"Fighting Suspicions"				Y	Y
"Too Good to Lose"				Y	Y
"I Used to Have It All"	2012	Maverick Sabre	Lonely Are the Brave	Y	Y
"Black & Blue"		Paloma Faith	Fall to Grace	Y
"Beauty of the End"				Y
"Chaos & Piss"		P!nk	The Truth About Love	Y	Y
"The Fire"		Matt Cardle	The Fire	Y
"Habit"		Tulisa	The Female Boss	Y	Y
"Worth Your While"	2013	Jamie N Commons	Rumble and Sway EP	Y	Y
"No Strings"		Chloe Howl	Chloe Howl	Y	Y
"Hold Me"		Tom Odell	Long Way Down	Y	Y
"Nothing"		Josh Krajcik	Blindly, Lonely, Lovely		Y
"When You Go"					Y
"Don't Make Me Hopeful"					Y
"No Man's Land"		Leanne Mitchell	Leanne Mitchell	Y
"Sense"		Tom Odell	Long Way Down	Y	Y
"You My Everything"		Ellie Goulding	Halcyon Days	Y				Y
"Water and a Flame"		Celine Dion	Loved Me Back to Life	Y	Y
"Didn't Know Love"				Y	Y
"Fake Smile"		Rebecca Ferguson	Freedom	Y	Y
"My Freedom"				Y	Y
"Girls and Boys"	2014	Chloe Howl	Chloe Howl	Y	Y
"Good Thing"		Sam Smith	In the Lonely Hour	Y	Y
"I've Told You Now"				Y	Y
"Disappointed"		Chloe Howl	Chloe Howl	Y	Y
"Sugar Lies" (featuring Ben Weinman)		Kimbra	The Golden Echo	Y
"The Magic Hour"				Y
"Baby, Happy Birthday"		Train	Bulletproof Picasso	Y				Y
"Therapy"		Mary J Blige	The London Sessions	Y	Y
"Takes Me a Long Time"		Chloe Howl	Chloe Howl	Y	Y
"When You're Gone"		Mary J Blige	The London Sessions	Y
"See You Again"	2015	Elle King	Love Stuff	Y	Y
"No More You (Interlude)"		Alexandra Burke	Renegade EP		Y
"Fight for Love"		Kwabs	Love + War	Y
"I Am"		Leona Lewis	I Am	Y	Y
"You Knew Me When"					Y
"Stay Like This"		James Morrison	Higher Than Here	Y
"We Can"				Y
"Easy Love"				Y
"Purple Hearts (Soldier of Love)"		CeeLo Green	Heart Blanche	Y	Y
"Only Water"	2016	Lawson	Perspective	Y
"For Julian"		Dua Lipa	Non-album single	Y	Y
"Pay for It"		Rebecca Ferguson	Superwoman	Y
"How Can I Blame You"		John Legend	Darkness and Light	Y
"Blindside"	2017	Aquilo	Silhouettes	Y	Y
"Words with Friends"		Fountaineer	Greater City, Greater Love	Y
"Choice"		Charlotte OC	Careless People	Y
"The Cricketers"		Fountaineer	Greater City, Greater Love	Y
"One More Light"		Linkin Park	One More Light	Y
"Deserve to Be Loved"		Zak Abel	Only When We're Naked	Y	Y
"Blind Eye"		Sam Smith	The Thrill of It All	Y	Y
"Lost and Lonely"		Paloma Faith	The Architect	Y	Y
"Tonight's Not the Only Night"				Y	Y
"Not That Special"	2018	Lily Moore	Not That Special EP	Y
"Raining Glitter"		Kylie Minogue	Golden	Y	Y
"Sepia"		Plan B	Heaven Before All Hell Breaks Loose	Y
"Brake Lights" (featuring Nao)		Cosha	R.I.P. Bonzai	Y
"Fast Forward"		You Me at Six	VI	Y			Y
"Aboard"		Tom Grennan	Lighting Matches	Y	Y
"Solid Gold"		Alex Hepburn	If You Stay	Y	Y
"I Will Never Be"		Lily Moore	I Will Never Be EP	Y	Y
"Like Everybody Else"		Lennon Stella	Non-album single	Y
"It's the Weekend"		Kovacs	Cheap Smell	Y	Y
"Midnight Medicine"				Y	Y
"Do This for Me"		Lily Moore	I Will Never Be EP	Y	Y
"Losing You"		You Me at Six	VI	Y	Y
"Got My Own"		Ray BLK	Empress	Y
"A Life Like This"		Nao	Saturn	Y
"Between the Words" (with Matt Maeson)		Devault	Stay EP	Y
"Loyal"	2019	Jasmine Thompson	Colour EP	Y	Y
"Take Care"				Y	Y
"Power"		James Morrison	You're Stronger Than You Know	Y	Y
"Slowly"				Y
"Cross the Line"				Y
"Into Hope"		Maverick Sabre	When I Wake Up	Y	Y
"More"		Jasmine Thompson	Colour EP	Y	Y
"Hurt Me Once"		Ben Platt	Sing to Me Instead	Y	Y
"Some People"		Jasmine Thompson	Colour EP	Y	Y
"Colour (Amen)"				Y	Y
"This is What We Wanted"		Izzy Bizu	Glita EP	Y	Y
"I Will Be Stronger"		Céline Dion	Courage	Y	Y
"Better Than I Am"	2020	Keith Urban	The Speed of Now Part 1	Y		Y	Y
"Moving On"		Sea Girls	Open Up Your Head	Y

Awards and nominations

Year	Institution	Award
Winner
2009	Ivor Novello Awards	Songwriter of the Year
2004	Ivor Novello Awards	Best Song Musically and Lyrically ("Leave Right Now")

Year	Institution	Award
Nominated
2009	Grammy Awards	Song of the Year & Record of the Year ("Chasing Pavements")

Eg and Alice - discography

Singles

• "Indian" c/w "Crosstown and Bobby and Holly" (WEA Records 1991) - did not chart
• "Doesn't Mean That Much to Me" (WEA Records 1991) - did not chart

Album

• 24 Years of Hunger (WEA Records 1991) - did not chart

Solo discography

Singles

• 1996: "Stay Home" (Andy Sturmer)
• 1997: "Made My Baby Cry" (Warner Elektra Atlantic)
• 2006: "Broken" (Ricky Ross) (Parlophone Records Ltd.)
• 2015: "You Fooled Me" (Lakeshore Records)

Albums

• Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man (WEA Records, 1996)

Track listing

1. "Nothing Comes Easy"
2. "Made My Baby Cry"
3. "What Can I Do"
4. "Stay Home"
5. "Mr Cool"
6. "Do It for Myself"
7. "Sister Blue"
8. "Holding It In"
9. "I Wish You Could Be Happy Too"
10. "Angel"
11. "My Lovely Valentine"

• Adventure Man (Spilt Milk Records 2009)

Track Listing

1. "But California" (Eg White)
2. "Weird Friendless Kid" (Eg White, Louis Eliot)
3. "My People" (Eg White)
4. "'Til The End" (Eg White, Aret Komlosy)
5. "Pay Later" (Eg White, Neil Hannon)
6. "Broken" (Eg White, Ricky Ross)
7. "There's Going To Be Someone" (Eg White, Matt Marston)
8. "Whatever Makes You Sick" (Eg White)
9. "Time To Fall" (Eg White)
10. "If You Run" (Eg White, Neil Hannon)
11. "Pull Me Through" (Eg White, Alice Temple)
12. "Our Turn Will Come" (Eg White, Jack Hues)

First review found at Daily Music Guide.

External links

• Spilt Milk Management