Eurythmics

Released: April 29, 1985

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart

Have you ever heard the sound of disappointment?
It tangles your head like a winter rose
Comes up eager and shining
And it likes to leave a scar before it goes

Here comes that sinking feeling
(Can't keep it to myself)

Nobody hurts me like you do
You cut into me like a poison dart
Creep into my sleep at night
Break into my dreams and tear them apart

Here comes that sinking feeling

Have you ever felt the sound of disappointment?
It pounds in your head like hammer blows
Comes on gentle and smiling
And it likes to leave a scar...
Here it comes again no
Here comes that sinking feeling

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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