I did it, now you can do it.’I can’t give them that talk. [A&Rs] are ultimately your clients.

It recently became a firm US Top 5 radio hit, and is currently wedged at No.9 on the Hot 100.And then… there’s the small matter of a certain song by Ed Sheeran.Shape Of You, co-penned by Mac with Sheeran and Johnny McDaid, has obliterated records and topped charts the world over.It now boasts a whopping 11.7m total worldwide sales (and 760m+ streams on Spotify), having just secured its 12th week at No.1 in the US.The track also recently broke the all-time Top 40 airplay record in the States for the highest play-count ever recorded in a single week.This is one of those stats that sounds a bit wrong.

It’s a big thing for me to leave this.But the main thing is, it works. Steve Mac, real name Steve McCutcheon, is a British producer, songwriter and musician from Surrey. I know exactly what I’m doing.’It took me seven more months to make anything that anyone paid any attention to.“It took me seven more months to make anything that anyone paid any attention to.”(I Wanna Give You) Devotion was a complete accident. We all need someone to be positive and say: ‘This is the right way to go.’As an example, Ed Howard at Atlantic – all of the A&R coming out of Atlantic UK at the moment, actually – is on fire.They don’t think they’re songwriters, they don’t think they’re record producers, so they don’t micro-manage the whole thing.“We all need someone to be positive and say: ‘This is the right way to go. Hitmaker Steve Mac has added yet another honour to his burgeoning collection – the title of Music Week Songwriter Of The Year 2018.. Everything would be much easier now.“Maybe I’m blinkered, but surely this whole business starts with the songs? You have to explain that it takes ages to get that first cut – and then that even earning enough to live from that cut is so tough.It’s sad to say, but I don’t envy any writers coming into this business at the moment.You just answered your own question: Mike McCormack.I love that man. There was a point where I used to get really offended because every A&R who had a project would go to every ‘cool’ producer first – and I’d be the last person they would call.My whole mindset has changed these days. Ed fits firmly into that category.”I’ve only known Ed for a few months now and we’ve written maybe six days together. These emails form part of the service you elect to receive when you subscribe to any of MBW's free email services.
We knew we’d never get those cuts, but it drove us to write better songs.One of the very clever things about Simon was, when the original songs weren’t good enough he’d go with a classic [cover].I spent about three or four years just producing cover versions.

I forgot all other plans. We should pitch it!’Talk about timing: that night he went to see [Atlantic UK’s] Ben Cook and Ed Howard and played them what he thought was the finished album.Then he played them Shape – which was called at the time ‘In Love With Your Body’ – and as I understand it, [Atlantic UK boss] Ben Cook got very excited and said: ‘This should be the single!’Ed, myself and Johnny never even thought it was an Ed Sheeran record – we just thought it was a good little pop song.Ben and Ed Howard heard something different; that’s why they’re good at their jobs.I’m getting a lot of phone calls, which is great. Glad You Came, The Wanted: (Co-writer & Co-producer) My dad was a publisher and managed a jazz-funk band called Shakatak. How do you become more credible? Pages in category "Songs written by Steve Mac" The following 121 pages are in this category, out of 121 total.

And I finish at 7pm.“I get to spend proper time with my kids – family is everything to me.”I get to spend proper time with my kids – family is everything to me.Because my dad managed this band, he was away touring a lot.

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