Eg White started his career in the band
Yip Yip Coyote and then formed
Brother Beyond Lack of commercial success did not deter the taste-makers, however, and
24 Years of Hunger was described by
Allmusic as "one of the finest, most refined and fully realized recordings of the era, employing a much more sophisticated and romantic style than anything else out of England at the time". In 1992, White produced the debut, self-titled album by
Kinky Machine, then disappeared from the
music industry until 1996 when he released his debut solo album ''Turn Me On, I'm a Rocket Man'', which was unsuccessful. In 2009, White was awarded his second Ivor Novello Award for 'Songwriter of the Year', and in 2010 he had a second UK number 1 with the Diana Vickers single "
Once", a song he wrote with
Cathy Dennis. Also in 2010, White reprised his collaborative role with Adele, and with her wrote "Take It All", which appears on her number one album
21. White started his own record label imprint, Spilt Milk Records, in 2009 – making
Lauren Pritchard its first signing, and then signing an exclusive license deal with
Island Records to release the album
Wasted in Jackson in 2010. The album features collaborations with White,
Ed Harcourt and Marcus Mumford (of the band
Mumford & Sons). He signed a
recording contract with
Parlophone Records and released a second album entitled
Adventure Man on 18 May 2009. In 2024, White won his third
Ivor Novello award (this time for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically", his second in that category), alongside
Jonny Lattimer and
Victoria Canal, for Canal's song 'Black Swan'. White has worked with Adele,
Kylie Minogue, Lennon Stella,
Natalie Imbruglia,
Florence and the Machine,
Dua Lipa,
Tom Odell,
Sam Smith, Will Young,
James Morrison,
Linkin Park,
Pink,
Joss Stone,
Matt Cardle, Maverick Sabre and
Rebecca Ferguson. ==Songwriting and production ==