Eurythmics

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart Jimmy Iovine

You don't know what it's like
To see things the way i do
So take a little piece of time
And step into my dancing shoes

'Cause it's just a cruel existence
Yeah it's a vicious place
Everybody's crowding in
They've got to take that space

If you wanna get up
You better cool down

They're gonna pump up some more action
They're gonna blast out another round
They're gonna move in with the cameras
To catch another kid gone down

If you wanna get up
You better cool down

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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