There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)

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There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
Eurythmics
publication June 2nd 1985
length 4:31
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Dave Stewart , Annie Lennox
album Be Yourself Tonight
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
  DE 4th 08/12/1985 (14 weeks)
  AT 9 09/01/1985 (10 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/06/1985 (13 weeks)
  US 22nd 08/03/1985 (11 weeks)

There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) is a song by the Eurythmics from the year 1985 , that of Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart was written. It was first released on the 1985 album Be Yourself Tonight . The single was released in June 1985 and was the duo's first number one hit in the UK.

history

While the actual recordings for the album took place in Paris , the Eurythmics booked a recording studio in Los Angeles for the recording of this song . The background was that Stevie Wonder , whom Annie Lennox personally admired, should contribute the harmonica to the song. Stevie Wonder was late for the recordings, but Lennox later summed up: "This man is an excellent musician who is worth waiting for." The song is called a sugar-sweet pop song. The Eurythmics played the song together with Stevie Wonder on the occasion of the 1999 BRIT Awards .

publication

The song first appeared on the album Be Yourself Tonight , released in May 1985 . In June 1985, the album version was released as a single, on the B-side was the previously unreleased song Grown Up Girls . A 5:22 minute maxi single and a 6:10 minute long "Special Dance - Mix " by Jon Bavin and Dean Garcia were also released, with Grown Up Girls on the B-side .

Music video

The accompanying music video was on a budget of 100,000 GBP in a theater from the time of King Edward VII. In Wimbledon rotated. The dance scenes were choreographed by Billy Poveda , with whom Annie Lennox later had a love affair . With the video, the Eurythmics wanted to pay tribute to Ken Russell's 1971 film The Devils , Stewart dressed up as Ludwig XIII. and Lennox as an angel. The scenery is modeled on the king's court and enriched with numerous extras dressed up as nymphs, angels and transvestites. Annie Lennox, dressed in pink and wearing a blonde wig, sings the song for Stewart, disguised as king, who is bored by the performance and nods off. Only when the gospel choir begins to sing does he wake up and pay homage to the artists who kneel before him. He gives them money and raises a pigeon. The video ends with a close-up of a wink from Stewart.

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts UK Charts US
  2. ^ A b Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 , pp. 248 .
  3. ↑ a b c Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 257.