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Stephen J. Lipson is a musician (principally on guitar) and producer who has worked with numerous artists, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
, The Animals
The Animals

The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
, Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
, Grace Jones
Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
, Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay

Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band from Franklin, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on singer, Charlie Lowell on piano and Keyboard instrument, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars....
, Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
, and Simple Minds
Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
. He produced the first three solo albums by former Eurythmics
Eurythmics

Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
 frontwoman Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
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Lipson started out as an engineer for The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, but then became a protégé of Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn is an English pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Hetton-le-Hole, England.Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists....
 at ZTT. There, he worked as an engineer, producer, guitarist, keyboardist and bassist on various projects, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones (co-writing "Slave to the Rhythm
Slave to the Rhythm

Slave to the Rhythm is an album by Grace Jones. It was Record producer by Trevor Horn and released in 1985. The album was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn....
"), Act
Act (band)

Act were a short-lived synth-pop group signed to ZTT Records in the late 1980s, and comprising Thomas Leer and ex-Propaganda vocalist Claudia Br?cken....
, Betsy Cook and Propaganda
Propaganda (band)

Propaganda is a Germany synthpop group, formed in 1984....
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Stephen J. Lipson is a musician (principally on guitar) and producer who has worked with numerous artists, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Frankie Goes to Hollywood were an England dance-pop band that were extremely popular in the mid 1980s. The Liverpool group was fronted by Holly Johnson , supported by Paul Rutherford , Peter Gill , Mark O'Toole and Brian Nash ....
, The Animals
The Animals

The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
, Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an United States singer, songwriter,actress, record producer, film producer, and former model . Houston rose to international fame in the mid-1980s and her crossover success opened doors for many other African American women to find success in booty shaking & pop music and movies....
, Grace Jones
Grace Jones

Grace Jones is a Jamaican?United States singer, Model , and actor....
, Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay

Jars of Clay is a Grammy Award winning Christian rock band from Franklin, Tennessee. They met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois. Jars of Clay consists of Dan Haseltine on singer, Charlie Lowell on piano and Keyboard instrument, Stephen Mason on lead guitars and Matthew Odmark on rhythm guitars....
, Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
, Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
, and Simple Minds
Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a rock music band from Scotland, who had their greatest worldwide popularity from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The band, from the south side of Glasgow, produced a handful of critically acclaimed albums in the early 1980s, and later went on to produce some politically inspired and critically praised work....
. He produced the first three solo albums by former Eurythmics
Eurythmics

Eurythmics are a United Kingdom musical duet, formed in 1980 by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.The pair have achieved significant global, commercial and critical success, selling 75 million records worldwide, winning numerous awards, and have undertaken several successful world tours....
 frontwoman Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox is a British musician, vocalist and Academy Award-winning songwriter. She is both a solo artist and the lead singer of the musical duo Eurythmics, hailed as "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by members of the rock industry on the VH1 show 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll in 1999....
.

Lipson started out as an engineer for The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, but then became a protégé of Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn is an English pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Hetton-le-Hole, England.Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists....
 at ZTT. There, he worked as an engineer, producer, guitarist, keyboardist and bassist on various projects, including Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Grace Jones (co-writing "Slave to the Rhythm
Slave to the Rhythm

Slave to the Rhythm is an album by Grace Jones. It was Record producer by Trevor Horn and released in 1985. The album was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn....
"), Act
Act (band)

Act were a short-lived synth-pop group signed to ZTT Records in the late 1980s, and comprising Thomas Leer and ex-Propaganda vocalist Claudia Br?cken....
, Betsy Cook and Propaganda
Propaganda (band)

Propaganda is a Germany synthpop group, formed in 1984....
. In Great Britain it is very desirable to work with Trevor Horn
Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn is an English pop music record producer, songwriter and musician. He was born in Hetton-le-Hole, England.Horn has produced commercially successful songs and albums for numerous British and international artists....
, and the importance of this experience to Lipson's career cannot be overstated, though he has successfully distinguished himself apart from Horn.

In more recent years, he has produced artists including Geri Halliwell
Geri Halliwell

Geraldine Estelle "Geri" Halliwell is an England pop music singer-songwriter, children's author, actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund....
, Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel Bedingfield

Daniel John Bedingfield is a New Zealand-born, British singer-songwriter. He is the brother of pop singer Natasha Bedingfield....
, Gareth Gates
Gareth Gates

Gareth Paul Gates , is a singer hailing from Bradford, England. He came second in the first series of the ITV talent show Pop Idol. Gates overcame a stutter through the McGuire Programme, qualifying as a speech coach in 2004 ....
, Rachel Stevens
Rachel Stevens

Rachel Lauren Stevens is an English singer, actor and occasional model. She is a former member, and one of the lead singers, of the successful pop music group S Club, and launched a solo recording career in 2003, releasing seven singles and two albums in the UK between 2003 and 2005....
, S Club 7 and Will Young
Will Young

Will Young is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural Pop Idol contest....
.

Lipson most recently produced two tracks for 2007 American Idol
American Idol

American Idol is an Television in the United States Singing airing on Fox network. It debuted on June 11, 2002, and has since become one of the most popular shows on American television....
 winner Jordin Sparks
Jordin Sparks

Jordin Brianna Sparks is an American Pop music/contemporary R&B singer, songwriter, fashion designer, and plus-size model. She rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol, which led to her reception of an American Music Award and 51st Grammy Awards nominations in 2008....
' eponymous debut and is currently recording an album of original material along with Trevor Horn, Chris Braide
Chris Braide

Chris Braide is an English people singer, songwriter, record producer....
 and Lol Crème
Lol Crème

Lol Creme is an England musician and music video director. He plays guitar and keyboard instrument.He was born Lawrence Neil Creme to a family of Jewish descent, and later took up the nickname Lolagon....
 as The Producers
The Producers (2006 band)

The Producers is a Supergroup formed in 2006 by music producers and musicians Trevor Horn , Lol Creme , Steve Lipson , Chris Braide and Ash Soan ....
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