Never Gonna Cry Again

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Never Gonna Cry Again
Eurythmics
publication May 1981
length 3:05
Genre (s) pop music
Author (s) Dave Stewart , Annie Lennox
album In the garden

Never Gonna Cry Again is a song of the British pop - duo Eurythmics . It was written by Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox and was released as the duo's first single in May 1981 . It only reached the charts in Great Britain , where it was listed at number 63. The song is a catchy electro- pop song and is based on a simple and memorable bass line.

Recordings

The song was from 2 to 6 January 1981 the recording studio by Conny Plank in Cologne added, produced by Plank and Stewart. In addition to the Eurythmics, several former members of Can and DAF were involved in the recordings . In the credits, Les Vampyrettes are also named as responsible for the sound effects . Behind it are Conny Plank and Holger Czukay , who later published the singles Biomutanten and Menetekel under this name .

Publication, promotion

It was released in May 1981 via RCA Records . On the B-side was the macabre Le Sinistre , which is about a séance . In October 1981 it was released as the seventh track of the debut album In the Garden . To promote the single, the Eurythmics appeared on The Old Gray Whistle Test on BBC television with Annie Lennox (vocals), Dave Stewart ( synthesizer ), Clem Burke ( drums ), Roger Pomphrey ( guitar ) and Penny Tobin ( keyboard ) . During the gig Annie Lennox played a flute - solo , one of the rare occasions when they showed their skills on this instrument, which she had learned in her youth to play. Shortly after the performance, a bomb exploded at a club in Northern Ireland and the cover of an English newspaper featured a politician holding the cover of the single to the camera because it was being played at the time of the explosion.

As a promotional measure, a music video was shot on the south coast of England in February 1981 . In addition to Stewart and Lennox, Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit also took part. The highlight of the atmospheric video were the backward effects that made Annie Lennox bone dry out of the waves and Dave Stewart out of the sand. The video also shows a king and courtesan reading a burning newspaper and joining Lennox and Stewart for a tea party. The video ends with Annie Lennox leaving the party crying and going back into the ocean. However, the video could never be officially shown in Great Britain because Czukay and Liebezeit, as Germans, were not members of the British musicians' union.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liner Notes of the single Never Gonna Cry Again .
  2. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 124.
  3. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 14.
  4. ↑ a b Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 125.
  5. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 126.

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