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It worked, as the song remains a quality example of the period’s incorporation of synthesizers into pop and remains one of Lennox’s favorite Eurythmics songs due to how well it incorporated beauty and melancholy. The frantic squall of Caveman Head is a highlight, a dizzying mix of skittering drums, spiralling guitars and a woozy vocal from Lennox. Meanwhile, the French language oddity Sing-Sing’s keyboard refrain is certainly on nodding acquaintance with Gary Numan’s Cars. Eurythmics: We Too Are One" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Sweden). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-16 . Retrieved 14 June 2020. When last we left Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (collectively known as Eurythmics), they had survived a stint in the failed British band The Tourists and a mostly-ignored debut album (In the Garden) (1981) to release Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983), the LP that put them over the top. Touch, released late in 1983, was the album that would make sure they'd stay there for the next decade and beyond. It was a #1 album in the U.K. and a #10 album in the U.S., and was eventually certified as Platinum in both countries, also going Double-Platinum in Canada and Gold in Germany. Additionally, it was named as one of Rolling Stone magazine's Top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003, and again in 2012 when they revised their list. Touch made Eurythmics international superstars. Savage may be the least commercially successful of the albums following their breakthrough, but it remains the favourite of the duo. In recent years it’s been reappraised and lauded for its experimental sense of adventure. “One journalist wrote how it was a masterpiece, and how people never recognised it as the most extraordinary piece of music of its time. It’s certainly our darkest record – that and 1984. They’re the two albums I feel very connected with,” Annie added.

The working relationship between the two had become frayed. Lennox was burnt out by their steady recording/touring pace through the ’80s. She’d also experienced horrible grief, as her son Daniel was stillborn in 1988. Annie’s vocals are at their most angelic on You Have Place A Chill In My Heart, which shows defiance in the face of adversity and Shame remains one of their most underrated singles. There’s a Hot Stuff-era Stonesy swagger to I Need A Man and an intriguing minimalism to the avant garde Heaven. The half a capella Brand New Day closes an album that’s now ripe for reassessment. Sweet Dreams went Top Five in the UK and made the US Top 20, breaking them as a chart pop act worldwide and launching them to superstardom.

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A fter playing to the galleries with the crowd-pleasing Revenge, Eurythmics took a left-turn for its successor. “We did the classic Dave and Annie thing of like ‘let’s make a really obscure electronic album again,’” Stewart told Classic Pop.

This is a more androgynous visual portrayal, but it isn’t meant to be butch,” Lennox told Rolling Stone in 1983. “No way. It is very useful in transcending the bum-and-tits thing, though. That’s a very vulgar thing to say, but I have received that kind of abuse onstage, and one has to find a way around it. Of course, you’ll never find a way around it. But this helps.” a b "Eurythmics > Album & Song Chart History > Hot 100". Billboard Nielsen Business Media . Retrieved 2010-08-18. Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts – 1984" (in German). Offizielle Deutsche Charts . Retrieved 16 October 2018.a b c "austriancharts.at > Eurythmics in der Österreichischen Hitparade" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 2020-02-27.