Stuart David Price was born on 9 September 1977 and is an English electronic musician, DJ, songwriter, and record producer known for his work with artists including Madonna, Dua Lipa, The Killers, New Order, Kylie Minogue, DMA's, Example, Take That, Missy Elliott, Scissor Sisters, Pet Shop Boys, Brandon Flowers, Gwen Stefani, Seal, Keane, Jessie Ware, Frankmusik, Hard-Fi, Hurts, Everything Everything, Rina Sawayama, and Darin.
40 Facts About Stuart Price
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Stuart Price's acts include his own band Zoot Woman, Les Rythmes Digitales, Paper Faces, Man with Guitar, Thin White Duke, and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont.
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Stuart Price formed Zoot Woman with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake, and their debut 12-inch, Sweet to the Wind EP, was released in 1995.
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Around the same time, under the pseudonym Jacques Lu Cont, Stuart Price was making music as Les Rythmes Digitales.
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In interviews from around this time, Stuart Price claimed that he had grown up listening exclusively to classical music, until one day encountering the album Dare by the Human League.
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Stuart Price has produced, and at times co-written, numerous songs for popular artists.
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Stuart Price has remixed and re-produced numerous songs under his own name as well as the names Thin White Duke, Jacques Lu Cont, and Les Rythmes Digitales.
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Stuart Price's remixes are characterised by club-lead beats with arpeggios, riffs, and vocal lines faded and filtered throughout the song for a climactic effect.
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Stuart Price favours keeping the original vocal arrangement of songs and re-contextualizing the non-lyrical content in creating his new versions.
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Stuart Price is best known for his work with Madonna's tenth studio album Confessions on a Dance Floor.
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Stuart Price began collaborating with Madonna as musical director for her 2001 Drowned World Tour after remixing some of the tracks on her Music album via Mirwais.
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Stuart Price reprised the role for her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour and 2006 Confessions Tour.
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Stuart Price co-wrote the song "X-Static Process" for Madonna's 2003 album American Life.
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Stuart Price has remixed the Madonna songs "Hollywood" from American Life and "Miles Away" from the album Hard Candy.
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Subsequently, Stuart Price remixed the song "When You Were Young", the first single from The Killers album "Sam's Town".
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Stuart Price produced two of the tracks re-recorded for the release of The Killers' B-sides album, Sawdust: "Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf" and "Sweet Talk".
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Stuart Price created an extended remix of the lead single "Human" released under the Thin White Duke name.
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Stuart Price worked for The Killers vocalist Brandon Flowers' debut solo album Flamingo, producing most of the songs on it, including the second single "Only the Young".
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The Killers' album, Battle Born, contains two tracks that Stuart Price produced, as well as a Jacques Lu Cont remix of the album's first track, "Flesh and Bone".
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Stuart Price produced the song "Just Another Girl", a new track on the Killers compilation album Direct Hits.
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Stuart Price toured with them on at least several shows in the Electric tour.
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Stuart Price went on to produce their albums Super and Hotspot released in 2016 and 2020 respectively.
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Stuart Price is the executive producer for Kylie Minogue's 11th studio album titled Aphrodite which was released on June 30,2010.
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Stuart Price was the album producer on Seal's fifth studio album System, which was released in November 2007.
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Stuart Price was among the producers of Keane's album Perfect Symmetry, which was released in October 2008.
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Stuart Price was reported to be working with New Order's Bernard Sumner on a "synthesiser album".
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Stuart Price co-produced the Scissor Sisters album Night Work, released on 28 June 2010.
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In 2010, Stuart Price produced Take That's studio album Progress which saw Robbie Williams return to the band.
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Stuart Price worked with the band for second single "Fire in the House".
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In 2014, Stuart Price produced multiple tracks on Take That's seventh studio album III.
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In 2015, Stuart Price produced the critically acclaimed studio album Get to Heaven by Manchester-based band Everything Everything which Digital Spy described as "a contender for album of the year".
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Stuart Price was credited as Jacques Lu Cont when remixing The Knocks's single "Trouble", featuring vocals from Absofacto.
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In 2019, Stuart Price produced British band Sundara Karma's second album Ulfilas' Alphabet.
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Stuart Price produced the release of Aussie rockers DMA's third studio album The Glow that has been met with positive reviews.
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Stuart Price remixed Coldplay's single "Viva la Vida", released on the band's website as the Thin White Duke remix.
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Stuart Price has produced and mastered tracks for Frankmusik's debut album, one of which is "3 Little Words".
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Stuart Price provided two Thin White Duke remixes for the release of Depeche Mode's 2009 single, "Wrong".
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In June 2012 his remix of Charlie Brown was rejected by Coldplay, though Stuart Price did end up having it released through Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio One on 13 July.
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In 2011, Stuart Price won a Music Week Award for Best Producer of the Year.
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June 2015, saw Stuart Price inducted into Pete Tong's Hall of Fame.