Touch (album)

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Touch
Studio album by Eurythmics

Publication
(s)

November 6, 1983

Label (s) RCA Records

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

New wave , synth-pop

Title (number)

9

running time

45:30

occupation

production

Dave Stewart

Studio (s)

The Church, London

chronology
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
(1983) 		Touch Touch Dance
(1984)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Touch
  DE 9 December 26, 1983 (20 weeks)
  CH 14th 03/18/1984 (9 weeks)
  UK 1 11/26/1983 (48 weeks)
  US 7th 02/04/1984 (50 weeks)
Singles
Who's That Girl?
  UK 3 07/09/1983 (10 weeks)
  US 21st 05/05/1984 (13 weeks)
  DE 19th 08/08/1983 (11 weeks)
Right by your side
  UK 10 05/11/1983 (11 weeks)
  DE 61 05.12.1983 (5 weeks)
  US 29 07/21/1984 (12 weeks)
Here comes the rain again
  UK 8th 01/21/1984 (9 weeks)
  DE 14th 02/27/1984 (14 weeks)
  CH 19th 03/18/1984 (10 weeks)
  US 4th 01/28/1984 (20 weeks)

Touch is the third studio album by the British new wave duo Eurythmics . It reached number 1 on the British album charts as the band's first album. The music magazine Rolling Stone ranks it 492 on its list of the 500 best albums of all time .

useful information

With Who's That Girl? and Here Comes the Rain Again , the duo had already written two of the tracks on the album, which had been pre-released as singles . For the songwriting of the remaining seven pieces, for the recordings and the mix, Lennox and Stewart only needed three weeks in their own studio The Church in London. The studio musicians included songwriter Michael Kamen, musicians Vic Martin, Dean Garcia, Pete Phipps and horn player Dick Cuthell. The Eurythmics had already worked with all of these musicians in the studio and the majority of them belonged to the backing band. Stewart and Lennox worked in parallel on the recordings. While Stewart began recording the rhythm and bass tracks, Lennox was already recording the vocals. The band's goal was not to record a second “Sweet Dreams”:

"One of the things I want to do on the next album is to make music that is so incredibly sweet, really touching."

"What I want to do on the next album is music that is incredibly sweet and really touching."

- Annie Lennox

The artwork used photos by Peter Ashworth, which he took for an interview with The Face magazine , and which expressed Annie Lennox's extraordinary hairstyling and experimentation. The cover photo shows Lennox with a black mask and dyed orange hair, her bare arms with tense muscles are eye-catching, as if she is preparing for a fight. This image, described as androgynous , is intended to deliberately caricature the traditional ideal of beauty of this time.

"Touch" was released on November 6, 1983. It was the first pop album to be released on LP and CD at the same time in the USA . Even before the official release date, the tour for the album began on October 31, 1983 , which lasted almost a year and took the band through New Zealand , North America , Europe to Japan . Based on a British sitcom , the tour was called " Only Fools and Horses ".

Track list

  1. Here Comes the Rain Again (4:54)
  2. Regrets (4:43)
  3. Right by Your Side (4:05)
  4. Cool Blue (4:48)
  5. Who's That Girl? (4:46)
  6. The First Cut (4:44)
  7. Aqua (4:36)
  8. No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts) (5:24)
  9. Paint a Rumor (7:30)

Reviews and Achievements

Jose F. Promis from Allmusic considers the album to be one of the best of the New Wave movement, the band manages to combine cold synthesizer sounds with warm vocals. The Rolling Stone praised the album as directly, without being simple and catchy as avant-garde, yet.

The album reached platinum status in the US and UK in the spring of 1984 .

literature

  • Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 , pp. 191-198 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  2. ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: Eurythmics, 'Touch'. Rolling Stone Magazine, accessed April 10, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Sutherland / Ellis, p. 193
  4. ↑ Melinda Newman: Annie Lennox. A portrait of the artist . In: Billboard Magazine . December 7, 2002, p. 25 .
  5. ↑ Christopher Connelly: Eurythmics: Touch. Rolling Stone Magazine, February 2, 1984, accessed October 8, 2012 .