Eurythmics

Songwriter: Annie Lennox David A. Stewart

Producer: David A. Stewart Jimmy Iovine

Well c’mon darlin’
The stars are burning bright
C’mon now darlin’
Our lick is good tonight

’Cause we’re the all time winners
In the all time loser’s game
Yea we’re the all time winners
And here we go again

The king and queen of America...

Yea it’s the king of nothing
And the queen of rage
With a pile of confusion
Upon a glittering stage

You know we never did anything
To make ourselves feel proud
You know we never did anything
So let’s play it loud

Let’s hear it for the
King and queen of America...

So c’mon darlin’
There’s a big moon in the sky
We’re gonna build
A little satellite
We’re gonna make it fly...

We’re gonna send it up to heaven
All the way up to the stars
And all of them aliens
Are gonna find out
Who we are

We’re talkin’ ’bout the
King and queen of America

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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