We Too Are One

We Too Are One
Studio album by Eurythmics
Publication (s)	September 11, 1989
Label (s)	RCA Records
Genre (s)	Synth pop
Title (number)	10
running time	47min 19s
production	David A. Stewart , Jimmy Iovine
chronology Savage (1987) We Too Are One Peace (1999)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

We Too Are One   DE 4th 09/25/1989 (33 weeks)   AT 20th 10/01/1989 (6 weeks)   CH 2 09/24/1989 (13 weeks)   UK 1 09/23/1989 (32 weeks)   US 34 09/30/1989 (28 weeks)

Singles

revival   DE 33 09/25/1989 (14 weeks)   CH 8th 09/10/1989 (10 weeks)   UK 26th 08/26/1989 (6 weeks) Don't ask me why   DE 56 December 25, 1989 (13 weeks)   CH 30th December 3rd, 1989 (1 week)   UK 25th 11/04/1989 (8 weeks)   US 40 09/30/1989 (9 weeks) The King and Queen of America   DE 51 March 19, 1990 (12 weeks)   UK 29 02/03/1990 (5 weeks) fishing rod   UK 23 05/12/1990 (6 weeks)

We Too Are One , the seventh official studio album of British pop - duo Eurythmics . It was released in September 1989 on RCA Records and in the USA on Arista Records . The album achieved double platinum status in Great Britain for more than 600,000 units and gold status for more than 25,000 units in Switzerland .

Emergence

The Eurythmics had signed a record deal for the US market in 1989 with the major label Arista Records . The company provided the duo with a generous advertising budget. The recordings for the album took place in mid-1989 over a period of five weeks in various European studios. As with the recordings for the 1986 album Revenge, an accompanying band was involved in the recordings , which consisted of keyboardist Patrick Seymour, percussionist and drummer Olle Romo, bassists Nathan East and Larry Klein , guitarist Mike Campbell and Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer . In contrast to the singing of Annie Lennox , Charlie Wilson was hired as a background singer . Dave Stewart also decided to hire a co-producer for the first time in his eurythmics career , whom he found in his longtime friend Jimmy Iovine . Most of the tracks were recorded in just one take , and overdubs were only used to a very limited extent. By using different recording studios, some of the original tapes were lost on the way from one studio to another and some songs had to be reconstructed from backup copies.

The title of the album We Too Are One (German: We are also one ) is misleading, because too sounds in English just like the word two for two . Further confusion was caused by the fact that the title song is actually called We Two Are One (German: We both are one ). This confusion was intentional, the Eurythmics wanted to counter rumors that the duo should have split up. Dave Stewart stated in an interview that the title was intended as a message that the eurythmics are still there and still have the same artistic visions.

During a press conference in Paris , the Eurythmics presented the finished album to the music journalists. During this event there was an uproar after the present press representatives initially showed no reaction after the album was presented. Annie Lennox lost her temper, compared the mood in the room with that at a funeral and announced that the Eurythmics would never hold a press conference again. After those present mainly asked questions about Stewart and Lennox's private life instead of questions about the new album, both left the room angrily.

Track list

1. We Two Are One - 4:32
2. The King and Queen of America - 4:31
3. (My My) Baby's Gonna Cry - 4:54
4. Don't Ask Me Why - 4:21
5. Angel - 5:10
6. Revival - 4:06
7. You Hurt Me (And I Hate You) - 4:23
8. Sylvia - 4:44
9. How long? - 4:41
10. When the Day Goes Down - 5:57

Reviews

Allmusic's William Ruhlmann calls the album the best of the band since Be Yourself Tonight . The sound is varied, the melodies strong and the lyrics unusually down-to-earth, but even with this album the Eurythmics did not succeed in making up for the lost commercial ground in the USA. Mark Cooper of Q magazine sees the music as a departure from the synthesizer sounds of the previous two albums and states that Stewart's guitar playing is more in the foreground again. He sums up that the duo combine pop and rock in an exciting way. Terry Staunton from NME thinks the record is a very good pop album, although not the best of the eurythmics. We Too Are One is possibly a kind of therapy for the emotionally troubled Annie Lennox, but it is a lovingly handmade album. In his review for Melody Maker , Dave Jennings points out that the Eurythmics have never been a trailblazer and that this has not changed with the album. The album has more highs than lows and is exactly what one had to expect from the eurythmics.

Sales figures and awards

Country / Region	Award	Sales
Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales)
France (SNEP)	gold	100,000
Canada (MC)	platinum	100,000
Sweden (IFPI)	platinum	100,000
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold	25,000
Spain (Promusicae)	gold	50,000
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × platinum	600,000
All in all	3 × gold 4 × platinum	975,000

Main article: Eurythmics / Music Sales Awards

literature

• Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 , pp. 307-312 .

Web links

• We Too Are One at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ release date
2. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
3. ^ Sutherland, Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 308.
4. ^ Sutherland, Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , pp. 312f.
5. ^ Mark Cooper: Eurythmics: We Too Are One . In: Q Magazine . September 1989.
6. ^ Terry Staunton: Too The Power Of Two: Eurythmics - We Too Are One . In: NME . September 9, 1989, p. 41 .
7. ↑ Dave Jennings: Eurythmics: We Too Are One . In: Melody Maker . September 9, 1989, p. 33 .