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Eurythmics
Eurythmics at Rock am Ring in Nürburgring, Nürburg, Germany, 1987
Groundwork information
Origin	London, England[one]
Genres	Synth-pop new wave dance-rock
Years agile	1980–1990 1999–2005 2014 2019
Labels	Arista RCA Sony BMG
Associated acts	The Take hold of The Tourists
Website	eurythmics.com
Past members	Annie Lennox Dave Stewart

Eurythmics were a British pop duo consisting of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. They were both previously in The Tourists, a ring which broke up in 1980. The duo released their showtime studio anthology, In the Garden, in 1981 to picayune success, but went on to accomplish global acclamation when their second album Sugariness Dreams (Are Fabricated of This), was released in 1983. The title rails became a worldwide hit, reaching number two in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart before hitting number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. The duo went on to release a string of hit singles and albums, including "Dear Is a Stranger", "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Hither Comes the Rain Once more", before they split up upward in 1990.

Stewart became a sought-later on record producer, while Lennox began a solo recording career in 1992 with her debut album Diva. After almost a decade apart, Eurythmics reunited to record their ninth album, Peace, released in belatedly 1999. They reunited again in 2005 to release the single "I've Got a Life", as role of a new compilation anthology, Ultimate Collection.

The Eurythmics have sold an estimated 75 one thousand thousand records worldwide.^[2] The duo have won an MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1984, the Grammy Honor for All-time Stone Performance past a Duo or Group with Song in 1987, the Brit Honour for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1999, and in 2005 were inducted into the U.k. Music Hall of Fame. In 2020 both Lennox and Stewart were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.^[3] In 2022, the duo will exist inducted into the Stone and Ringlet Hall of Fame.^[4]

History

1976–1982: Formation and In the Garden

Lennox and Stewart met in 1975 in a eating house in London, where Lennox worked at that time.^[five] They first played together in 1976 in the punk rock band The Take hold of. Afterwards releasing ane single as The Catch in 1977, the band evolved into The Tourists. Stewart and Lennox were also romantically involved. The Tourists accomplished some commercial success, but the experience was reportedly an unhappy one. Personal and musical tensions existed within the grouping, whose main songwriter was Peet Coombes, and legal wrangling happened with the band's management, publishers and record labels. Lennox and Stewart felt the stock-still band line-upwardly was an inadequate vehicle to explore their experimental artistic leanings and decided their adjacent project should be much more than flexible and free from creative compromise. They were interested in creating popular music, but wanted freedom to experiment with electronics and the avant-garde.

Information technology was in a hotel in Wagga Wagga, Australia, while playing effectually with a portable mini-synthesizer that Lennox and Stewart decided to go a duo.^{[half dozen]} Calling themselves Eurythmics (subsequently the pedagogical exercise arrangement that Lennox had encountered equally a child^{[ commendation needed ]}), they decided to keep themselves as the only permanent members and songwriters, and involve others in the collaboration "on the basis of mutual compatibility and availability". The duo signed to RCA Records. At this fourth dimension, Lennox and Stewart as well split as a couple. During the period that Lennox and Stewart were in The Tourists, and after as Eurythmics, they were managed past Kenny Smith and Sandra Turnbull of Hyper Kinetics Ltd.

They recorded their first album in Cologne with Conny Plank (who had produced the later Tourists sessions). This resulted in the album In the Garden, released in October 1981. The album mixed psychedelic, krautrock and electropop influences, and featured contributions from Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit (of Tin), drummer Clem Burke (of Blondie), Robert Görl (of D.A.F.), and flautist Tim Wheater. A couple of the songs were co-written by guitarist Roger Pomphrey (subsequently a Goggle box manager). The anthology was non a commercial success (though the debut unmarried "Never Gonna Cry Again" made the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland charts at No. 63).^[7] Lennox and Stewart then activated their new Eurythmics fashion of operation by touring the record as a duo, accompanied by backing tracks and electronics, carted around the country by themselves in a equus caballus-box.

During 1982, the duo retreated to Chalk Subcontract in London and used a depository financial institution loan to institute a pocket-sized 8-rails studio to a higher place a picture framing manufactory, giving them liberty to record without having to pay expensive studio fees. They began to employ much more electronics in their music, collaborating with Raynard Faulkner and Adam Williams, recording many tracks in the studio and playing alive using various line-up permutations. However, the three new singles they released that year ("This Is the Firm", "The Walk" and "Love Is a Stranger") all performed desperately on initial release in the UK. Although their mode of operation had given them the creative freedom they desired, commercial success still eluded them and the responsibility of personally running and then many of their affairs (downwardly to transporting their own phase equipment) took its price. Lennox apparently suffered at least one nervous breakup during this menstruum, while Stewart was hospitalised with a complanate lung.^[five]

1983–1984: Sugariness Dreams (Are Fabricated of This) and Touch

MTV has paved the way for a host of invaders from away: Def Leppard, Adam Ant, Madness, Eurythmics, the Fixx and Baton Idol, to name a few. In return, grateful Brits, even superstars similar Pete Townshend and the Police, accept mugged for MTV promo spots and made the phrase "I want my MTV" a household commonplace.

—Anglomania: The 2d British Invasion, by Parke Puterbaugh for Rolling Stone, November 1983.^[8]

Eurythmics' commercial breakthrough came with their 2nd album, Sweet Dreams (Are Fabricated of This), released in January 1983. The successful title track featured a dark and powerful sequenced synth bass line and a dramatic video that introduced the now orange crew-cutting Lennox to audiences. The song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart,^[seven] becoming one of the yr's biggest sellers, and later topped the United states Billboard Hot 100. The band's fortunes changed immensely from this moment on, and Lennox chop-chop became a pop icon, gracing the covers of numerous magazines including Rolling Stone. Their previous unmarried, "Honey Is a Stranger", was also re-released and became another chart success. The video for the vocal saw Lennox in many dissimilar character guises, a concept she would employ in various subsequent videos. The anthology's working title was Invisible Hands (as was a track left off the album), inspiring the proper noun of the British contained company Invisible Hands Music – known for releasing music by Hugh Cornwell, Mick Karn and Hazel O'Connor. The album also featured a cover of the 1968 Sam & Dave hitting "Wrap It Up", performed as a duet betwixt Lennox and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti.

The duo chop-chop recorded a follow-upwardly anthology, Touch, which was released in Nov 1983. It became the duo's start No. 1 anthology in the UK, and besides spawned 3 major hitting singles. "Who'south That Girl?" was a top 3 striking in the UK,^[7] the video depicting Lennox every bit both a blonde chanteuse and as a gender-bending Elvis Presley clone. Information technology as well featured cameo appearances past Hazel O'Connor, Bananarama (including Stewart'south future wife, Siobhan Fahey), Kate Garner of Haysi Fantayzee, Thereza Bazar of Dollar, Jay Aston and Cheryl Baker of Bucks Buzz, Kiki Dee, Jacquie O'Sullivan and the gender-angle popular vocaliser Marilyn, who would continue to musical success of his own that same yr. The upbeat, calypso-flavoured "Right by Your Side" showed a different side of Eurythmics birthday and likewise made the Top 10, and "Here Comes the Rain Again" (No. viii in the United kingdom,^[seven] No. 4 in the The states) was an orchestral/synth ballad (with orchestrations by Michael Kamen).

In 1984 RCA released Touch Dance, an EP of remixes of four of the tracks from Touch, aimed at the club marketplace. The remixes were by prominent New York Metropolis producers Francois Kevorkian and John "Jellybean" Benitez. Besides released in 1984 was Eurythmics' soundtrack album 1984 (For the Honey of Big Brother). Virgin Films had contracted the band to provide a soundtrack for Michael Radford's modern film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. However, Radford afterward said that the music had been "foisted" on his film against his wishes, and that Virgin had replaced nigh of Dominic Muldowney's original orchestral score with the Eurythmics soundtrack (including the song "Julia", which was heard during the finish credits). Still, the record was presented equally "music derived from the original score of Eurythmics for the Michael Radford pic version of Orwell's 1984". Eurythmics charged that they had been misled by the picture'south producers as well,^[9] and the album was withdrawn from the market for a catamenia while matters were litigated. The album'due south first single, "Sexcrime (Xix Eighty-Four)", was a top five hitting in the Great britain,^[7] Australia and across Europe, and a major dance success in the U.s..

1985–1986: Be Yourself This evening and new musical direction

Annie Lennox performing during Revenge Tour in 1986

The duo's next anthology, Be Yourself Tonight, was produced in a week in Paris. It showcased much more of a "band style" and a centred audio (with an R&B influence), with real drums, brass, and much more guitar from Stewart. Almost a dozen other musicians were enlisted, including members of Tom Little's Heartbreakers, invitee harmonica from Stevie Wonder, bass guitar from Dean Garcia, string arrangements by Michael Kamen, and Lennox singing duets with Aretha Franklin and Elvis Costello. It continued the duo's transatlantic chart domination in 1985, and independent four hit singles: "Would I Lie to You?" was a US Billboard height five hit and Australian No. one, while "There Must Be an Affections (Playing with My Centre)" (featuring Wonder's harmonica contribution) became their first and but UK No. ane single.^[seven] The feminist anthem "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" (a duet with Aretha Franklin, though originally intended for Tina Turner), and "Information technology's Alright (Baby's Coming Dorsum)" also rode loftier in the charts. In September 1985, Eurythmics performed "Would I Lie to You?" at the 1985 MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York.^[10]

1986–1990: Revenge, Savage and We Likewise Are I

Eurythmics released their adjacent album, Revenge, in 1986. The album continued their move towards a band sound, verging on an AOR-pop/stone sound. Sales connected to exist strong in the UK and internationally, but were somewhat slower in the US, though "Missionary Man" reached No. 14 on the US Hot 100 chart and went all the way to No. 1 on the Usa Album Oriented Rock nautical chart (AOR). Revenge would eventually certify double Platinum in the UK and Gilded in the US. The ring went on a massive worldwide tour in support of the anthology, and a live concert video from the Australian leg of the tour was released.

In 1987, Lennox and Stewart released the album Roughshod. This saw a fairly radical change within the grouping's sound, existence based mainly around programmed samples and pulsate loops (Lennox would afterwards say that where Revenge was more than of a Stewart album in sound, Savage was more of a Lennox one). Lyrically the songs showed an even darker, more obsessive side to Lennox's writing. A video anthology was also made, directed by Sophie Muller, with a video for each song. This was largely a concept slice, following characters portrayed by Lennox, specifically one of a frustrated housewife-turned-vamp (as exemplified in "Beethoven (I Love to Listen To)", a Great britain meridian 30 hitting^[7]). The brazen, sexually charged rocker "I Demand a Man" remains a Eurythmics staple, as does "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart". Much less commercial than the two previous albums, Fell was mostly ignored in the Us, although rock radio in more than progressive markets supported "I Need a Man". In the duo'due south native Great britain nevertheless, the album was a top 10 success and was certified Platinum.

In 1989, Eurythmics released the album We Besides Are One, which entered the UK Album Nautical chart at No. 1 (their 2d No. one album after Touch ^[7]) and gave the duo iv UK Top 30 hit singles. The anthology was a render to the stone/popular sound of their mid-80s albums and was certified Double Platinum in the Britain, simply was less successful in the United states (although the single "Don't Ask Me Why" grazed the Billboard Acme 40). Other singles from the album included "Revival", "The Rex and Queen of America" and "Angel". Accompanying the album, the duo conducted their Revival earth tour from 8 September 1989 to 25 Jan 1990.^{[11] [12]} Parts of the tour (both on and off-stage) were interspersed with promo videos for Eurythmics' 1990 video anthology We Two Are 1 Too.

1990–1998: Hiatus and solo careers

After strenuous years of touring and recording (Eurythmics had released viii studio albums in viii years), a rift had developed betwixt the duo and Eurythmics disbanded, although no formal observe was given. Stewart began writing moving-picture show soundtracks and had a large international striking in 1990 with the instrumental runway "Lily Was Here" (featuring saxophonist Candy Dulfer). The single reached No. half dozen in the UK^[13] and the Meridian 20 throughout much of Europe, as well as in Australia and the United states. A soundtrack of the same name was also released, produced and largely written by Stewart. He formed a band chosen The Spiritual Cowboys, releasing two albums with this group in the early on 1990s. Lennox took time off from her career to have a infant and to consider a life afterward Eurythmics. Appropriately, the duo had very little communication with each other from 1991 to 1998. In 1991, Eurythmics' Greatest Hits collection was released, entering the UK anthology chart at No. i and spending a total of 10 weeks at that position,^[7] equally well as condign a massive worldwide seller. New remixes of "Sweet Dreams" and "Dearest Is a Stranger" were too released as singles at this time. During 1993, a live anthology entitled Alive 1983–1989 featuring recordings from various years throughout Eurythmics' career was also released.

In 1992, Lennox released her get-go solo album, Diva. The album was a critical and popular success, entering the UK album nautical chart at No. 1 and achieving quadruple platinum status (more than whatsoever Eurythmics studio album had done), as well equally producing a string of v hitting singles. She followed this upwards in 1995 with her second album, Medusa, an album of embrace versions. It became her second No. 1 album in the UK, reaching double platinum status both there and in the US.

Stewart, meanwhile, released the solo albums Greetings from the Gutter (1995), and Sly-Fi (1998), only neither was commercially successful.

1999–2005: Peace and Ultimate Collection

In the belatedly 1990s, Eurythmics reunited and recorded a new anthology, Peace, which was released in 1999. The single "I Saved the World Today" reached No. eleven in the Britain Singles Chart,^[7] and a remix of "17 Again" gave the duo their starting time chart-topper on the The states Hot Dance Music/Guild Play chart. The band also embarked on a earth tour, dubbed the "Peacetour", to support the album. The tour started on 18 September 1999 at Cologne's Kölnarena and ended on 6 December 1999 at the London Docklands Arena (which was filmed and released on video and DVD). All gain from the tour went to Greenpeace and Amnesty International. The twelvemonth 2000 saw numerous European festival appearances by Eurythmics (at Germany'south Stone am Band, amid others). In 2001, Stewart performed with U2 for the America: A Tribute to Heroes do good concert. In 2002, he collaborated with Bryan Ferry on his album Frantic.

In June 2003, Lennox released her third solo anthology, entitled Bare, which was a elevation 5 hit in the UK and the US., with three tracks reaching the meridian of the Us Billboard Hot Dance Music/Gild Play nautical chart. She as well recorded the vocal "Into the West" for Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, where it appeared every bit the closing theme and earned Lennox the Academy Award for Best Song. In November 2003, Eurythmics played three songs at the 46664 in Cape Town, South Africa, for which Stewart was one of the main organisers. They played an unplugged version of "Here Comes the Rain Again", "seven Seconds" with Youssou N'Bleak and "Sweet Dreams". Stewart collaborated with The Rolling Stones vocalist Mick Jagger on the soundtrack to the movie Alfie, released in 2004, including the critically acclaimed "One-time Habits Die Hard", which won a Gilded Globe Award for All-time Original Vocal from a Motion Pic.

On 7 November 2005, Eurythmics released Ultimate Drove, a remastered greatest hits package with two new songs. 1 of them, "I've Got a Life", was released as a single and reached No. 14 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Nautical chart^[7] every bit well as spending three consecutive weeks at No. one on Billboard's Hot Trip the light fantastic toe Music/Lodge Play in the US. Lennox and Stewart appeared on a number of Television receiver shows to promote their new compilation album, which was a Peak 5 hit and certified Platinum in the UK. On xiv November 2005, the duo'southward label, RCA, re-released their eight studio albums in remastered and expanded editions featuring rare B-sides, remixes and unreleased songs. The remasters were fabricated available separately with expanded artwork, and also together in a collector'south box ready, entitled Boxed. Still, the 1984 soundtrack album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) was not included in this re-release campaign as Virgin Records holds the rights to that anthology. Also in 2005, Eurythmics were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame.^[14] In 2007, Lennox resumed her solo career with her 4th album, Songs of Mass Destruction, which was a top ten success in the UK and the US. In 2009, she released her first solo "greatest hits" bundle, The Annie Lennox Collection. The aforementioned yr, Lennox stated that although she and Stewart remain friends, she does non foresee any further Eurythmics projects in the future.^[15]

In an interview with Reuters in September 2012, Stewart was quizzed on whether a new Eurythmics anthology is in the works, to which he replied: "We're not talking nearly one right now, but never say never." He added that he was because developing a musical based on the music of Eurythmics.^[16]

2014: Reuniting for Beatles tribute concert

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart performed as a duo for "The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles". The issue was recorded at the Los Angeles Convention Heart on 27 January 2014, the day after the Grammy Awards. They performed The Beatles song "The Fool on the Hill".

2019: Reuniting for Sting'south 30th We'll Exist Together benefit concert

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, billed as Eurythmics, performed at Sting's 30th We'll Exist Together benefit concert in assist of his Rainforest Foundation Fund on 9 Dec 2019 at New York City's Beacon Theatre. The group played "Would I Lie to You?", "Here Comes the Pelting Over again", and "Sweet Dreams (Are Fabricated of This)", before returning to join in the finale performance of Journey's "Don't Cease Believin'" along with the dark's other performers.^[17]

Discography

• In the Garden (1981)
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (1983)
• Touch (1983)
• 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) (1984, soundtrack)
• Be Yourself Tonight (1985)
• Revenge (1986)
• Savage (1987)
• We Too Are 1 (1989)
• Peace (1999)

Concert tours

• Sugariness Dreams Tour (1983)
• Bear on Bout (1983–1984)
• Revenge Tour (1986–1987)
• Revival Tour (1989–1990)
• Peace Tour (1999)

Awards

Billboard Music Awards

Brit Awards

Grammy Awards

MTV Video Music Awards

Music & Media Year-Terminate Awards

• 1984: Ivor Novello Laurels – Songwriters of the Year
• 1987: Ivor Novello Award – Songwriters of the Yr
• 1987: Ivor Novello Honour – All-time Contemporary Song for "It's Alright (Babe's Coming Back)"
• 2000: Argent Clef Honor
• 2000: ASCAP Award for "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
• 2003: Kindred Spirit Music Award
• 2005: Inducted into U.k. Music Hall of Fame
• 2008: ASCAP Award for "Sweet Dreams (Are Fabricated of This)"
• 2009: ASCAP Award for "Sugariness Dreams (Are Made of This)"
• 2010: ASCAP Award for "Sweetness Dreams (Are Made of This)"^[27]

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External links

• Official website

ramirezdill1989.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurythmics

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