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Eurythmics: Be Yourself Tonight (RCA)
Review by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, May 1985
AMONG their assimilations, borrowings and treatments, Eurythmics remain outsiders. "I'm a looker, a viewer of things," said Annie Lennox. Their Sweet Dreams album nailed the ...
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We're Not Tourists, We Live Here
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, March 1981
HUNCHED OVER scrambled eggs in his mother's airy flat, Dave Stewart looks more like the late John Lennon than the D'Artagnan-style dandy familiar from The ...
Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, February 1983
WHEN ANNIE LENNOX and Dave Stewart opened for Roxy's 'comeback' as two-fifths of The Tourists, I thought there was definitely something there, but I never ...
Interview by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, March 1983
Most electronic duos seem to have hits instantly. Not so Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox. Dave Rimmer finds out why it's taken them so long. ...
Interview by Johnny Black, Smash Hits, June 1983
I ARRIVE, two hours late, outside a church in North London. I push open the huge wooden door and find myself being smiled at by ...
U2/Simple Minds/Eurythmics/Steel Pulse/Perfect Crime/Big Country: Phoenix Park, Dublin
Live Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, August 1983
DATELINE DUBLIN: 3.30am Monday. There will no doubt be some measured reports of U2's home-coming gig. But I really hate measured reports. ...
U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country, Steel Pulse: A Day At The Racecourse
Report by Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, September 1983
A long, hot, emotional day it was too. Dublin's Phoenix Park throws open its gates to U2, Simple Minds, Eurythmics, Big Country and about 20,000 ...
Interview by Max Bell, Face, The, October 1983
THE EURYTHMICS used to rehearse in a room above a picture framers in Camden Town. Now, with money in the bank and record sales approaching ...
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, October 1983
Stroud Green Road is one of London's more depressing thoroughfares. Noisy, dirty and deprived, it looks as if the buildings which line this lead-perfumed thruway ...
Eurythmics: 1984: For The Love of Big Brother (Virgin)
Review by Don Watson, NME, November 1984
WAR IS Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength and this soundtrack LP with the logo of Radford's 1984 on its cover is not the ...
Eurythmics: The Ministry Of Truth
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, May 1985
AMONG THE CRASH of crockery and the hubbub of tea-slurping customers, Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox sit unobtrusively at a table in the Waldorf Hotel. ...
Review by Biba Kopf, NME, July 1986
THEY PICK dreams like they were pockets, these market research trained thieves, respray them in glitter and, even before the paint's properly dry, they're selling ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Creem, December 1986
I CAN VAGUELY recall learning something in high, school biology, an explanation why molecular goosh flows out of, rather than into, an amoeba under certain ...
The Man Most Likely To: Dave Stewart
Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, Q, February 1987
THE MATCHING PAIR of black and white Mercedes limousines nose, cautiously down the narrow street, unearthly craft looking for a landing space in the Milan ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, February 1988
...about the group she formed with the acid-drenched folk-strumming minstrel who proposed to her in a vegetarian restaurant. And the calamitous demise. And the legal ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Creem, April 1988
SINCE 1980, when they left the Tourists to become a duo, Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox – a.k.a. the Eurythmics – have displayed an intriguing ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, October 1989
Eurythmics: the kind of sadness that can't shed tears ...
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1991
WHEN IT COMES to a "Dadodadodadodado" there's never been one to match the start of Eurythmics' only British Number 1, 'There Must Be An Angel ...
Annie Lennox: Hmm... What Rhymes with "Angst"?
Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, May 1991
Her career has not been what she would call a bed of roses. For Annie Lennox, more like a diary of private nightmares played out ...
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, March 1993
CONGRATULATIONS ON your Grammy nominations. Are you making any bets on how you'll do? ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999
First they were lovers. Then they created one of the great pop groups of the 80s. Then they didnt exchange a word for four years... ...
Interview by Bill DeMain, Performing Songwriter, January 2006
WHEN DAVE Stewart and Annie Lennox formed Eurythmics in 1980, they drew up what they called "a manifesto." A list of their intentions, along with ...
see also Annie Lennox
see also Dave Stewart
see also Tourists, The
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