Here comes the rain again

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Here comes the rain again
Eurythmics
publication January 1984
length 4:56
Genre (s) Synth pop
Author (s) Dave Stewart , Annie Lennox
album Touch
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Here comes the rain again
  DE 14th 02/27/1984 (14 weeks)
  CH 19th 03/18/1984 (5 weeks)
  UK 8th 01/21/1984 (9 weeks)
  US 4th 01/28/1984 (20 weeks)

Here Comes the Rain Again is a synth-pop song can the British pop - duo Eurythmics . It was written by Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox . In the UK, the single achieved silver status for over 200,000 units sold.

history

While in New York City in September 1983, Lennox and Stewart stayed at the Mayflower Hotel near Central Park . It rained heavily later in the evening. The couple had quarreled and Dave Stewart started playing a melody on the keyboard . Annie Lennox wanted to play the keyboard too and there was a tussle between the musicians. The physically superior Stewart took back the place on the keyboard and continued to play. While he was playing, Lennox, standing by the window and watching the rain, began to sing improvised lines of text: "Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory". These improvised melodies and lines of text became Here Comes the Rain Again . Back in London , Stewart and Lennox put the song together in their home studio, The Church . Originally they wanted to offer it to Robert Plant , former Led Zeppelin singer , but then decided to record the song themselves. The song was recorded at The Church studio and produced by Dave Stewart, the strings were arranged by Michael Kamen .

publication

Here Comes the Rain Again was released worldwide in January 1984 and became a top 20 hit in countries like Germany , Switzerland , Great Britain and the United States. The song lasts 4:56 minutes and was released as the third single from the album Touch . On the B-side is the piece Paint a Rumor .

Music and lyrics

For the Lennox biographers Sutherland and Ellis, the song was a turning point in the musical development of eurythmy. It overcomes the boundaries of contemporary pop music and can also be viewed as a great composition across genre boundaries. The musical basis is a mixture of high keyboards and catchy guitar harmonies . The text, written by Lennox, is about the desperate search for love, the rain is supposed to symbolize the flood of feelings that fall on her. Stewart Mason from Allmusic calls the song elegant and majestic and praises the orchestral arrangement. The structure deviates from the usual sequence of stanza-chorus-stanza, instead the lines "Here comes the rain again" and "So baby talk to me" are repeated without the repetitions differing significantly from one another. The monotony is only interrupted by a short bridge in the middle of the song, which is carried by eight strings.

Music video

The music video was directed by Jonathan Gershfield in December 1983. Originally the shooting was supposed to take place on Loch Lomond , but the area was not bleak enough for the eurythmics, so that they turned to the wintry Orkney island of Hoy . The video was inspired by the 1981 film drama The French Lieutenant's Beloved . It starts with a close-up of Annie Lennox and then turns into a scene where she walks along windswept cliffs while Stewart follows her with a video camera. Lennox protects herself from the cold with a blanket, because she only wears a white nightgown, and flees into a house from her pursuer. In the following scene she can be seen in a white nightdress, she is holding a candle and singing. Since Stewart is still filming her with the video camera, she tries to escape him and runs through the freezing cold until she reaches a shipwreck on the beach. The video is characterized by a mysterious and eerie mood and has been very well received by both fans and critics.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Here Comes the Rai Again on Discogs
  2. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  3. ^ Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 , pp. 184 .
  4. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 185.
  5. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 193.
  6. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 202.
  7. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 203.

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