LOS ANGELES, OCTOBER 2005: Back in the early 1940s, legendary crime writer Raymond Chandler used this suite of rooms on the sixth floor of a Hollywood office building as his work place and home away from home: The High Window, the third of his novels to feature the hard-bitten, Bogart-enacted detective Philip Marlowe was crafted on a typewriter here, and remains in print to this day. And now, this same downtown address is the centre of operations for omni-talented, mutli-tasking, forever-busy Dave Stewart, a son of Sunderland in north-east England but now settled on America�s west coast with his wife and young family. And it was here that he brought his former musical partner Annie Lennox two months ago, while she was on a flying visit to the US.

"I just wanted to show her my new studio set-up," he says in his typically soft-spoken, unassuming way, and nodding in the direction of a small, square room kitted out with the most cutting edge recording equipment currently available. Within hours the pair had written the best part of their first new material for 5 years, I've Got A Life remembers Annie, whose most recent accomplishments include mesmerising a global audience of millions with her performances at this summer�s Live 8 concerts in London and Edinburgh, and winning the 2004 Oscar for Best Original Song with 'Into The West', from The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of the King. While Dave himself has recently picked up a US Music Critic Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for 'Old Habits Die Hard', for the celebrated re-make of 'Alfie'.

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