Eurythmics

Released: April 29, 1985

Featuring: Elvis Costello

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart

Adrian - don't you understand?
Fools like us are always dreaming
And when you go to bed
And cover up your head
It's better if you try to stop remembering
And the world is slowly dawning
To wake up to a new clear morning
Some of them just half your age
Get written off, page by page...

Adrian don't you understand?
Fools like us are always dreaming
And when you go to bed
And cover up your head
It's better if you try to stop remembering
Some of them just half your age
Get written off page by page...

And the world is softly sleeping
While your fears are in their keeping
All the planet's making haste
To blow to bits in outer space...
Adrian - don't you understand?

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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