Eurythmics

Released: April 29, 1985

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart

Well the sound of your voice on the telephone
Make me feel distressed
Make me all alone
Why do I feel so incomplete?
When you're not here I'm just obsolete

My bed is burnin' all through the night
You're the only one that can make me feel right
Try to lay down my sleepin' head
But I'm tossin' and turnin' around instead

I love you like a ball and chain
(Make it alright now.)
Love you like a ball and chain
(Feels too good.)

I'm a fool I know but I'm stuck on you
I'm a fool I know and it's makin' me blue
There's a river of blood
There's a river of tears
I've been wasting all these years

Chorus repeats

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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