Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song)

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Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Eurythmics
publication January 1983
length 3:34
Genre (s) Synth pop
text Annie Lennox
music David A. Stewart , Annie Lennox
album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
  DE 4th 04/25/1983 (23 weeks)
  AT 9 08/15/1983 (8 weeks)
  CH 8th 05/22/1983 (5 weeks)
  UK 2 02/12/1983 (14 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/14/1983 (26 weeks)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is a 1983 song by the Eurythmics . It was written by the band and produced by Dave Stewart . The song is usually just called Sweet Dreams . The song was written on the day Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart broke up and shows Lennox's view of what drives people in their lives. In the list of the 500 best songs of all time , the song reached number 356.

Emergence

Annie Lennox had found her relationship with Stewart to be very stressful and Stewart said that she would end it. While this was taking this seriously, Stewart went to the drum machine to program some rhythms. These aroused Lennox's interest and she sat down at the synthesizer . According to Stewart, the main riff melody came "out of nowhere" and the duo started the tape recorder . Annie Lennox started singing and the song was finished in half an hour. Stewart later explained that he had simply pressed the wrong button on the drum machine and that was how the rhythm came about.

The recordings took place on an eight-track recorder . The duo used countless different textures to give the song a sophisticated sound. There was a wood factory near the recording studio, so the recordings of the singing had to be interrupted again and again due to the noise at work. The clicks during the last repetition of the chorus were not recorded with electronic aids. The duo filled empty milk bottles with different amounts of water and struck them in the desired places.

publication

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) was released worldwide in May 1983. It became a number one hit in the US , Canada and France . The song is 4:52 minutes long, on the B-side is the track I Could Give You (A Mirror) . It was released as the fourth song from the album of the same name. In 1991 the Eurythmics released another version of the song entitled Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) '91 , which reached number 48 in Great Britain .

Music video

For the music video, Chris Ashbrook was won as a director, the script is by Dave Stewart. It was filmed at Trillion Studios on January 11th and 12th, 1983, with location shooting in Kent . The surrealistic design of the clip was also very stylish. Noticeable in the video are Lennox's androgynous appearance, the scenery and the cows. At MTV, the video is one of the most played clips. At the first presentation of the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, the music video won the Best New Artist in a Video category.

Cover versions

literature

  • Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . Updated and Expanded 5th Edition. Billboard Books, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-8230-7677-2 , pp. 575 .
  • Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox. The biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7119-9192-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date UK
  2. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  3. ^ Rolling Stone - | The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
  4. ↑ a b c d Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox. The biography. P. 157.
  5. ↑ Fred Bronson: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. P. 575.
  6. ↑ Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox. The biography. P. 149.
  7. ↑ release date US
  8. ↑ Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox. The biography. P. 158.