Eurythmics

Eurythmics
Eurythmics at Rock am Ring , 1987
General information
Genre (s)	Pop , synth pop , new wave , dance
founding	1980, 1999
resolution	1990
Website	eurythmics.com
Founding members
Guitar , keyboard , programming	David A. Stewart
Vocals , keyboard	Annie Lennox

The Eurythmics are a British pop - duo , which published from 1981 to 1999 and was successful albums in the charts. So far it has sold around 80 million records worldwide.

history

The band consisted or consists of the two members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart , who were initially also privately linked. After playing together in the bands The Catch and The Tourists , they founded the Eurythmics in 1980.

The name is an allusion to the rhythmic education according to Émile Jaques-Dalcroze , which Annie Lennox enjoyed in her childhood. In the fall of 1981 released debut album In the Garden , which contained pieces with members of Can , DAF (German-American friendship) and Blondie , only sold moderately.

In early 1983, Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) was followed by the second album, which became a commercial success. The singles Love Is a Stranger and Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) contained therein developed into international successes.

The album Touch followed at the end of 1983 ; the singles Who's That Girl? , Right by Your Side and Here Comes the Rain Again continued the initial success. In autumn 1984, the Eurythmics provided the soundtrack to Michael Radford's film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia 1984 . The sex crime released as a single (Nineteen Eighty-Four) rose to number three in the German single charts.

The long-playing record Be Yourself Tonight , released in spring 1985, contains duets with Aretha Franklin ( Sisters Are Doin 'It for Themselves ) and Elvis Costello ( Adrian ). The song There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) , on which Stevie Wonder plays the harmonica, became an international success. It's also the group's only number one hit in the UK .

The LP Revenge , released in mid-1986, contained Thorn in My Side (number five in the British charts), the duo's last single top ten hit for a long time. In the fall of 1987 the album Savage was released , which was recorded almost exclusively with synthesizers.

Stewart then worked as a producer for Tom Petty , Jon Bon Jovi and Bob Dylan , among others , while Lennox pursued an acting career. In autumn 1989 the album We Too Are One was released , which reached number one in the UK charts , but was otherwise less successful. The duo then declared their collaboration "ended for the time being".

In the spring of 1992 Lennox released her first solo album with Diva . Stewart wrote some soundtracks (including Lily Was Here with Candy Dulfer on saxophone) and founded the Spiritual Cowboys , with whom he released two albums (see solo careers of Lennox and Stewart ).

After a ten-year break, the two found each other again in 1999 for the album Peace . They donated the profits from the subsequent tour ( Peacetour ) to Greenpeace and Amnesty International . The album and single, I Saved the World Today, sold well. From 2000, Lennox and Stewart went their separate ways artistically.

In November 2005, the band released the Ultimate Collection, a second compilation of their hits. In addition to the familiar, this contains two new titles, including the single I've Got a Life , which held number one in the US Billboard Dance Charts for several weeks and, as a result, made it into many European club charts. At the same time, the band's entire catalog appeared in improved sound quality and with additional, partly unreleased pieces.

Annie Lennox said in 2009 that there would be no more eurythmics reunification. Contrary to this statement, the duo performed on February 9, 2014 at the tribute concert The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles with the Beatles song The Fool on the Hill in Los Angeles . Dave Stewart emphasized in several interviews that the band was never officially dissolved. On December 9, 2019, he and Lennox performed together at a benefit concert in New York and played several songs, including Sweet Dreams .

Discography

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1981	In the garden	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 16, 1981
1983	Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)	DE6th gold (23 weeks)DE	-	-	UK3 platinum (60 weeks)UK	US38 gold (36 weeks)US	First published: Jan 4th 1983 Sales: + 1,250,000
	Touch	DE9 gold (20 weeks)DE	-	CH14th gold (9 weeks)CH	UK1 platinum (48 weeks)UK	US7th platinum (50 weeks)US	First published: November 6, 1983 Sales: + 1,815,000
1985	Be Yourself Tonight	DE8th gold (32 weeks)DE	AT25 (2 weeks) AT	CH9 (20 weeks) CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (80 weeks)UK	US9 platinum (32 weeks)US	First published: April 26, 1985 Sales: + 2,930,000
1986	Revenge	DE5 gold (37 weeks)DE	AT6th gold (36 weeks)AT	CH7th platinum (34 weeks)CH	UK3 × 2 Double platinum (52 weeks)UK	US12 gold (20 weeks)US	First published: June 30, 1986 Sales: + 1,835,000
1987	Savage	DE23 (13 weeks) DE	AT17 (4 weeks) AT	CH10 gold (5 weeks)CH	UK7th platinum (33 weeks)UK	US41 (19 weeks) US	First published: November 2, 1987 Sales: + 730,000
1989	We Too Are One	DE4 (33 weeks) DE	AT20 (6 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (13 weeks)CH	UK1 × 2 Double platinum (32 weeks)UK	US34 (28 weeks) US	First published: September 11, 1989 Sales: + 1,045,000
1999	Peace	DE2 gold (21 weeks)DE	AT7 (10 weeks) AT	CH2 gold (16 weeks)CH	UK4th gold (9 weeks)UK	US25th gold (12 weeks)US	First published: October 19, 1999 Sales: + 1,240,000

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

literature

• Dave Stewart: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This - From Eurythmics to SuperHeavy (The Autobiography) . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2016, ISBN 978-3-85445-495-3 (Original edition: Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This )
• Stambler, Irwin: The Encyclopedia Of Pop, Rock And Soul. 3rd revised edition, pp. 218–220. St. Martin's Press, New York City, New York: 1989, ISBN 0-312-02573-4 .
• Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 .

Web links

Commons : Eurythmics  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Eurythmics at laut.de
• Eurythmics at Discogs (English)
• Eurythmics at Allmusic (English)
• Interview by Dave Stewart in Der Spiegel. Accessed July 20, 2018

Remarks

1. ↑ Facts and Plates
2. ↑ Guardian: Corrections and Clarifications. guardian.co.uk, May 31, 2012, accessed July 27, 2012 . 
3. ^ Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography. P. 112.
4. ^ David Balls: Lennox rules out Eurythmics reunion. Digital Spy, March 6, 2009, accessed February 22, 2012 . 
5. ↑ https://www.regioactive.de/news/2018/12/09/was-machen-eigentlich-eurythmics-Tfrtm4HRVP.html
6. ↑ Chart sources:
   • Eurythmics in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
   • Eurythmics in the Austrian charts on AustrianCharts.at
   • Eurythmics in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
   • Eurythmics in the Official UK Charts (English)
   • Eurythmics in the US charts on Billboard