- Michael Stewart (musician)
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For other people of the same name, see Michael Stewart (disambiguation).
Michael “Mike” Stewart (April 19, 1945 - November 13, 2002) was the guitarist for We Five. He was also the brother of John Stewart (1939-2008), a one-time member of The Kingston Trio and later a very successful singer/songwriter, and the father of Jamie Stewart, frontman of popular avant-garde group Xiu Xiu. Stewart eventually became a successful record producer, with one of his biggest successes being Billy Joel's Piano Man.
He left the music industry in the early 1990s and became a computer programmer. He later played bass in his son's band The Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto (IBOPA).[1]
Stewart died on November 13, 2002 as a result of "a long illness."[2] An unsubstantiated internet blog rumor suggests that Stewart in fact committed suicide.[3]
The track "Mike" from Xiu Xiu's album Fabulous Muscles concerns Jamie's reaction to his father's death.
References
- ^ Espe, Erik (1996-05-31), "They got the Beat", Palo Alto Weekly, http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/morgue/cover/1996_May_31.ARTS31.html, retrieved 2010-02-25
- ^ "Michael Stewart". Variety. November 18, 2002. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117876193.html?categoryid=25&cs=1.
- ^ http://www.zoilus.com/documents/news/2004/000059.php
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