31 Facts About Stephen Street

In February 2020, Stephen Street received the award for Outstanding Contribution to UK Music at the Music Producer's Guild Awards.

Stephen Street began his musical career in the late 1970s playing in various bands around London.

Stephen Street started at Island Records' Fallout Shelter Studio in 1982 firstly as an "in-house assistant" and then as an "in-house engineer".

Stephen Street 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.

Stephen Street continued to work with the Smiths, working as an engineer on their album The Queen Is Dead before assuming a producer role for Strangeways, Here We Come, their final album.

Reilly claimed to have written the majority of the tracks on the album, which Stephen Street dismissed, claiming that he wrote the music for all of the tracks on the album and that Reilly had no part to play in that.

Stephen Street was credited as producer, songwriter, guitarist and bass guitarist on the album.

Stephen Street went on to co-write and produce two further singles for Morrissey which appeared on Bona Drag before the singer ended their association, apparently due to disputes regarding royalty payments and alleged conversations between Stephen Street and Johnny Rogan, author of controversial Morrissey texts.

Stephen Street produced Blur's next four albums: Modern Life Is Rubbish, Parklife, The Great Escape and Blur.

Stephen Street produced Blur's 2015 album The Magic Whip, their first since the band's reformation with Coxon.

In 1994, Stephen Street worked with the band again on their second album No Need to Argue.

Stephen Street worked with Hogan in producing the album of the same name released in 2005.

Stephen Street produced the Cranberries' sixth studio album Roses, released in 2012.

Stephen Street produced their final album In the End, released in 2019.

Stephen Street produced Employment, the debut album by Kaiser Chiefs, after hearing one of their early demos and contacted the band about producing them.

At one point, Stephen Street brought Blur guitarist Graham Coxon into the studio to rev his moped for a sound effect.

Stephen Street produced the band's second album Yours Truly, Angry Mob.

Stephen Street produced the first two albums for ska-influenced indie band the Ordinary Boys: Over the Counter Culture in 2004 and Brassbound in 2005.

Stephen Street produced Shotter's Nation, the second album by Pete Doherty's band Babyshambles.

In 1989, Stephen Street produced and engineered "The Black Swan" by the Triffids.

Stephen Street produced the 1990 Danielle Dax album Blast the Human Flower, released on Sire Records, along with a subsequent remix EP.

Stephen Street worked with the Darling Buds on their third and fourth albums Crawdaddy and Erotica.

Stephen Street produced the Caretaker Race's album Hangover Square in 1990.

Stephen Street worked with Lloyd Cole in 1995, produced Shed Seven's 1998 album Let It Ride and worked with New Order.

Stephen Street produced several tracks on the Longpigs second album Mobile Home in 1999.

Stephen Street co-produced A New Morning by Suede, released in September 2002.

Stephen Street produced The Magic Treehouse, the debut album from Ooberman, and Tired of Hanging Around, the second album by the Zutons, released in the UK in April 2006.

Stephen Street produced the next album by Feeder, released in 2008.

Stephen Street co-produced the tracks "Save Us" and "Burn the Bridges" from the band's The Singles album with lead singer Grant Nicholas.

An exclusive mix of this track, done entirely by Stephen Street, was available from iTunes upon release.

Stephen Street worked with alternative post-punk band White Lies when they were known as Fear of Flying, producing "Routemaster" and "Three's a Crowd".