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For the Love of Big BrotherEurythmics

Released: November 12, 1984

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart

Like a train passing in the distance
Like a bird in flight
I hear you call
And even though there's no one
Dark shadows move across the wall

I still hear the echoes
Of your footsteps on the stairs
Still recall the images that
Seem to linger there

Faces seem like fingerprints
Like skeletons of leaves upon the lawn
People changing places
Lasting for a moment
Then it's gone

I still hear the echoes
Of your footsteps on the stairs
Still recall the images that
Seem to linger there

Like a train passing in the distance
Like a bird in flight
I hear you call
And even though there's no one
Dark shadows move across the wall

I still hear the sound of
Conversation from the hall
Look to see who's coming
But it's nothing
And there's no one there at all
(No one there at all)

Eurythmics

While working as a waitress at a health food restaurant in London, Annie Lennox met Dave Stewart, with whom she formed the band Catch with singer-songwriter Peet Coombes. Catch released one single before adding two more members and changing their name to The Tourists. Under that name, the band scored five UK hits before Coombes' substance abuse broke the band apart.

Lennox and Stewart continued writing together – with Stewart moving from guitar to synthesizer and Lennox adopting an androgynous look – and formed Eurythmics. Within a few years, the duo was propelled into international stardom when “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”, a single from their second album, became a top ten hit in nine countries.

Over the decade, the duo moved away from their dark new wave sound and S&M imagery, evolving into a more mainstream synthpop band. In that time, they scored twenty-one UK top 40’s (ten of which were also US top 40 hits). In 1990, Eurythmics quietly disbanded and Lennox took a break from music to have her first child.

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