Sweet Dreams: How Eurythmics Shocked America and Made MTV I New British Canon

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When MTV first launched, there simply weren’t enough music videos to fill their 24 hour format. This forced the young channel to take a chance on previously-unknown-in-the-US artists to fill time, including A Flock of Seagulls, Adam and the Ants, The Buggles, U2, Spandau Ballet & Visage. It paid off: within a couple of years a whole wave of videogenic British New Pop bands would take over the Billboard Chart, almost single-handedly creating what was called The Second British Invasion.
But even in the age of MTV, The Eurythmics were striking. Annie Lennox's orange close-cropped hair and sleek tailored suit stood apart from other female pop stars of the time. The swirling darkness of their breakthrough single would define the sound of the 80s forever more. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
#eurythmics #80spop #musicdocumentary
Fact-checking by Serenity Autumn and Chad Van Wagner.
00:00 Introduction
01:38 It Starts With The Tourists
05:22 Goodbye The Tourists, Hello Eurythmics
08:49 Creating "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
13:09 MTV & The Second British Invasion
20:34 Aftermath & Enduring Influence of Eurythmics
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"Dave Stewart: 'What Annie Lennox and I went through was insane'" Jim Farber, The Guardian, Feb 2016
"Eurythmics: how we made Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Dave Simpson, The Guardian, Dec 2017
"Chvrches Reveal Influence of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart and the National's Matt Berninger on 'Love Is Dead'" Ian Gormely, Exclaim, Feb 2018
"Classic Tracks: Eurythmics ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)’" Tom Doyle, Sound on Sound, Jul 2018
"Classic Album: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)" Mark Lindores, Classic Pop, Sep 2019
"Flashback: Eurythmics Perform ‘Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)’ in 1983" Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, Dec 2019
"The Number Ones: Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)”" Tom Breihan, Stereogum, Jul 2020
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"Eurythmics: The genre-fluid music ahead of its time" Arwa Haider, BBC Culture, Nov 2021
"Annie Lennox's 30 greatest songs - ranked!" Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, Apr 2022
"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - how a drum machine helped create Eurythmics’ biggest hit" Helen Brown, Financial Times, May 2022
"Dave Stewart" Carl Wiser, Songfacts, Jul 2022
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@TrashTheory Год назад

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@monotonehell Год назад

8% Rod.

@TheDirge69 Год назад

hey... missed Marilyn Manson's cover of Sweet Dreams in '95-96. great retrospective as usual....

@snoopstp4189 Год назад

A lot of great female vocalists from that time, Chrissie Hynde, Maddy Prior, Karen Carpenter, Pat Benatar, to name a few, but only Annie could sing the outro to one of the all time great literary works made into film... Into the West

@bushmatt Год назад

Thx for the invite. But im not sure if you're very informed. Are you old enough to appreciate this music?

@bushmatt Год назад

Just my 2 cents. But in 1980 and before music had a meaning. Now the only true musicians are gone. Best recovery might be "The traveling willberry's"

@gordonnimrod4855 3 месяца назад

You are missing a very important detail here, the recording began at Chalk Farm but was finished on a Tascam 8 track in a small room at the back of a church in Crouch End, London, Dave and Annie went on to buy the whole building and turn it into the now legendary Church Studios which is still churning out hits to this day

@alexandramcleod2079 3 месяца назад

🎉

@RichardHowells1234 2 месяца назад

Sweet 😋

@michelleobrien6996 2 месяца назад

That's wonderful ❤

@JeffSherlock Месяц назад

It took eight tracks for this? LOL. must have had a few blank tracks left.

@EricBrettJones Месяц назад

Tascam 8 track, a reel to reel?

@dpie4859 11 месяцев назад

Lennox is one of the best pop singers ever. Amazing voice, powerful personality and yet very vulnerable. She gives me the chills.

@thuddreau5444 11 месяцев назад

She is the WORST EVER UGH !!

@scottmcelhiney323 9 месяцев назад

I saw her live while on vacation in the military... I flew over from Germany to Tucson AZ and saw her at the University of Arizona. Had some Australian pop band that opened for her that essentially got boo'd off the stage... their studio song sucked, but their live performance was absolutely horrible and NO ONE wanted to hear them. Annie came out and put on one of the best concerts I've ever attended. Absolutely stunning.

@lairdcummings9092 2 месяца назад

It requires towering strength to be that vulnerable.

@lordmortimer1stearlgreatwe878 2 месяца назад

SHE IS *SO* HOT....BUT I' D BE AFRAID TO TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF NEAR HER.......SHE LOOKS A LITTLE DANGEROUS.....BUT SHE'S LIKE 6' PR 6'1" TALL.....OW OW OWWWW!!! HE HOWLED AT THE DARK YET MOON FILLED SKY....

@ecoideazventures6417 Месяц назад

Is she an overpowering dominatrix? is a vulnerable sweet girl? Is she androgynous? is she feminine? Is she heart broken? or does she have a heart?

@ms.r9000 11 месяцев назад

I turned 16 in the Deep South as Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) hit MTV and the airwaves. Annie Lennox's look was the antithesis of what the girls my age looked like: long, curled hair, perfect make-up, feminine dresses, etc. I chopped my below-the-waist hair almost as short as hers but didn't have the guts (or the $$) to dye it orange. My boyfriend didn't speak to me for 4 days, my Dad was furious and my classmates didn't recognize me - I **LOVED** it! I found myself because of that song and Annie Lennox!

@raeroa7982 11 месяцев назад

love this! iconique

@ShakepearesDaughter 11 месяцев назад

Isn't it amazing how other people try to own your hair? Always drove me crazy. Even now, in most grade schools (our leading conformity factories), girls can't have chopped hair like Annie or big 'fros like Pam Grier, and boys can't just have long hair. (Most young guys had long hair in my school back in the early to late 70s, some really long.) We've gone backward since the 70s (my Junior High and High School era). I even dyed my light brown hair a very dark brown at 13, just for fun. My mom bought me the dye when I asked for it. School had no opinion on it. Unbelievable what I see now being imposed on students... and parents want it. Sad.

@helenbartoszek243 10 месяцев назад

Good on ya! After all it's just hair and it will grow back if you so wish

@Fwootgummi 10 месяцев назад

@@ShakepearesDaughter It's all a reaction to rapid change, I think. When things change quickly as they have in the last 5 years, let alone decade, people rush to try and maintain a status quo or worse, go back to a "simpler" time.

@danebecker 10 месяцев назад

Great story! You go girl!!! Song reminds me of our student committee planning sessions for the Seniors prom, which was the year belows responsibility

@davidholubetz177 11 месяцев назад

Wow that was really well done. I'm so sick of the youtube videos that sensationalize rock stories and turn them into dramatic tragedies. This was just perfect. Mad respect for Annie and Dave - a real class act.

@timjoyce8636 11 месяцев назад

You've sais it all there, David.

@stellviahohenheim Месяц назад

Not RU-vid videos, TV does that

@Bajaos 16 дней назад

@@stellviahohenheim RU-vid is TV now.

@Bezlonirslair 10 дней назад

Yeah, I don't even click on all the "rise and fall" BS. This video was really well done, for sure.

@ghostgirl6970 Год назад

My 13 yo daughter just walked in, saw the screen (no sound, my headphones are on) and started singing Sweet Dreams and dancing, stating "It's the law, you have to sing it." Not only do I feel like I have done something right, but she just proved your concluding words. Annie's voice is pure liquid gold and her strength and beauty and openness about her troubled soul has long been an inspiration to me.

@Hollylivengood Год назад

Yes, even in the grocery store. Three old folks there in the condiments isle, with a bunch of young kids watching. Two of us lip-sinked, all of us danced, one old deaf guy with hearing aids sang.

@zainmudassir2964 Год назад

Cute 😊

@chalkedlines8960 Год назад

My 12 year old son loves this song. Great music is timeless.

@benutzer1221 11 месяцев назад

oh rebecca

@KiSH9891 11 месяцев назад

And the whole world cried and clapped at the same time ~

@scottcampbell9515 Год назад

The last time I DJed at a goth club I still packed the floor with this hit. When I think of MTV this is the very first thing that comes to mind. Lennox Is a QUEEN!

@vannjunkin8041 Год назад

She is Queen 👸

@jaymf2560 Год назад

what song is it? don’t have time to watch the video rn

@harkingmadwing5112 Год назад

The last time you DJd a goth club was 1985!

@scottcampbell9515 Год назад

@@harkingmadwing5112 Nope. June 2019. Cincinnati, Oh.

@lockejessup Год назад

Have you ever tried to do something with Stay? Seems prefect for goth.

@pauloneill9880 11 месяцев назад

As a 13yr old when sweet dreams was released I was absolutely mesmerised by the beauty of Annie Lennox. The strong look was sexy not masculine. I know , the effect nearly killed me, but what a way to go.

@user-tp6fo7im3d 11 месяцев назад

I was also 13. It was something unexpected and new and a little shocking.

@MrNajibrazak 11 месяцев назад

i was introduced to the sounds by my cousins around your age. i think i was 8 or something, it was either this band, yazoo, depeche mode or duran duran when everyone in class were still singing to nursery tunes. and it helped me picked up English and understand the newspaper after months of trying to read the lyrics while stopping to smell the cassette sleeves once in a while listening to it. lol good times. ever since then i was very much into music until today now that i am almost 50. still doing what i did as a teenager with music. lol anybody still playing with turntables? lol

@romanseano 10 месяцев назад

I was 11, also mesmerized - and to me, it was deliberately masculine in that it was an artistic challenge to gender norms. I thought the end result was beautiful and provocative. Lennox was a groundbreaker then, and to this day, I'm endlessly fascinated by her.

@YxG713 6 месяцев назад

@@MrNajibrazaki wondered if anybody else loved the scent of cassette sleeves 😁

@KevinWarburton-tv2iy 2 месяца назад

Grace Jones was another ...she did the suit look well :)

@apl2606 3 месяца назад

"Sweet Dreams" is so unbelievably catchy. How could the label not recognize this?! Thanks for this super interesting video!

@kirbyjoe7484 2 месяца назад

Very simple. The song was about them and it did not paint them in a positive light.

@stellviahohenheim Месяц назад

@@kirbyjoe7484Exactly

@josephmiceli274 Месяц назад

How could they not recognize it? Annie wasn't wearing big hair and a little skirt and acting like a 10 year old girl. Cretins.

@fmilan1 Год назад

I was 11 when this music came out. Could not stop listening to it. I'm Brazilian, grew up poor in the low suburbs of Rio, did not understand English at all, but some how, it got through the barriers of my understanding, into the heart of my emotions.

@slktool Год назад

City of God

@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Год назад

That's awesome, thanks to the internet I have been able to find music in many other languages that whilst I have a varying understanding of their lyrical content (I have a smattering of knowledge of a few languages, though am far from fluent in any of them but English lol) I find myself thoroughly bonded with them emotionally. It really is a universal language and unites us where our words are liable to fail. All the best to you from the UK!

@fmilan1 Год назад

@@slktool Bangu was worse... Hotter. Summer as hot as 47oC.

@mariag5306 11 месяцев назад

Music has no language and is a feeling. I listen to a lot of music from different countries which I don't know the language but the feeling the singer gives is more than enough to understand the song. The best example for me is the song from the South Korean drama Flower of evil. The song Feel You describes the lead's anguish and you don't need to know what the lyrics are saying

@damekkoDark Месяц назад

I first listened to it as russian preteen. And yet I love it so many years later, now that I can understand the lyrics even more

@trevorjones8969 Год назад

Also, Lennox's voice is incomparable. x

@monsoonst0rm Год назад

She still does little snippets on instagram of her playing on the piano at home, occasionally with her daughter. She's still got it. Hauntingly vulnerable or terrifyingly strong, but always beautiful. She is absolutely one of my favourite singers.

@esoxlucius6884 Год назад

I like their music, but Lennie Annox irritates, as a person.

@kittycatswhiskers Год назад

@@esoxlucius6884 when did you meet her? Oh....you didn't?

@kittycatswhiskers Год назад

absolutely agree! The control she has is outstanding, I would love to see her live.

@nyobunknown6983 Год назад

I believe Lennox was classicly trained.

@artconsciousness 11 месяцев назад

I will never forget the day when "Sweet dreams" was aired on the UK music show "Top of the Pops". I was at a friends house and there was a gang of us. The song forced us to stop what we were doing and we all instantly knew this was totally fresh and original. The story of the Eurythmics, and how "sweet dreams" was born, is a lesson to anyone who is trying to achieve a dream. It shows just how many obstacles one has to over come and how one should never give up. Of course having huge talent can help.

@aclark903 2 месяца назад

£2000 state of the art drum 🥁 machines help.

@artconsciousness 2 месяца назад

@@aclark903 An arrow does not fire itself.

@nikolasincorporated 7 месяцев назад

Annie Lennox spoke at my graduation in 2013 from Berklee. One of the highlights of my life thus far, she is such an inspirational artist in every sense of the word imho

@joaomiguelxs Год назад

Thanks for giving the Eurythmics their due slot in the New British Canon. The story behind Sweet Dreams shows what a massive struggle Dave and Annie endured. Legends!!

@theobserver9131 Год назад

There is no great art without great pain.

@wobblybobengland Год назад

Thanks for being vegan johnny

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

@@wobblybobengland Yes, thanks for being vegan, Johnny. Eurythmics don't have a "the" at the start of their name. 🙂 Yes, they deservedly became legends. :-)

@veramae4098 Год назад

I'm surprised they didn't mention Annie Lennox singing "Into the West" near the end of LOTR.

@benjaminparkinson5255 Год назад

Can't believe America banned love is stranger such a realy good song

@seanlahm4826 Год назад

As a 51 year old American male I can honestly say I am still infatuated with Annie Lennox. Love her voice and really dug her look . She was the subject of an art project I had in college . I put so much passion and time into that piece , my art teacher asked to have it. I really wish I would have said no. Stewart heard and saw the same thing . A rough diamond, now a polished jewel.

@Witty..UserName Год назад

I'm 47 - 100% Even in her late 60s she is still attractive. Maybe it's the artists eye in us.

@Tasarran Год назад

She uses her face so well in the Sweet Dreams video; not a single wasted expression... Gold

@ghomerhust Год назад

i think part of it is how she stepped out of the cliche of what we normally saw with women in music at that time. i think thats why cindi lauper did so well. she blasted out with a wild look, awesome talent, and tons of energy. two of the most powerful women in 80s music

@Vaportrail70 Год назад

53 year old and I feel the same way

@user-io6pj8bz8h Год назад

Sooooo, what country are you from? The uploader is a European. You see no one cares what continent you're from.

@Brian-uy2tj Месяц назад

It was eye opening to see how many songs that Stewart had collaborated on. I think he deserves much more recognition for his talent.

@MichaelLaFrance1 3 месяца назад

I literally wore out my Eurythmics vinyl albums by playing them over and over and over in the eighties. Couldn't get enough, and I still love them just as much now as I did then.

@lloydthomas5589 Год назад

In 1983, I was stationed in "West" Germany - this was pre unification - with the US Army. I had also gotten married there. On our honeymoon in Spain, this song was blasting in every club, disco, street market, and venue in Costa Bravo (a beach resort town about 45 minutes from Barcelona)I became a huge fan of Annie's hauntingly beautiful voice. For nearly 40 years now, this song has had a constant place on my top 5 songs EVER!

@MothraBlues Год назад

Hell yeah - it's a stone cold classic! I loved it from the first time I heard it back in '83, and the album of the same name remains one of my favourites till this day. Ta for sharing your memories of it!

@bistromathics6 Год назад

It was still playing a lot when I was stationed there in the late '80's. Used to pull me onto the dance floor at the club, no matter what else was going on

@Xiroi87 Год назад

Not to be picky but Costa Brava isn't a resort, it's the name for a stretch of coast including several towns and villages, some of which are tourist traps.

@ianworley8169 Год назад

@@Xiroi87 Picky or not, facts is facts.

@Tasarran Год назад

It's one of the most powerfully emotive songs I know of... Annie wailing during the bridge (shiver)

@robLV Год назад

So glad they persisted. For me it's hard to imagine anyone not recognizing Annie's voice is pure gold

@lexzbuddy 8 месяцев назад

I was a complete metal head back then. When sweet dreams came out, I loved it... and still do. I'm still a metal head but I've broadened my taste a lot since 83. Great video.

@normmartin6070 2 месяца назад

Same here!

@epstein_isnt_dead7726 Месяц назад

If you were bobbing your head to this manufactured synth pop song you were definitely NOT a metalhead 😂🤣😂🤣. What an absurd statement. That would be like a goth jamming to Britney Spears

@grodesby3422 Месяц назад

The idea you have to restrict yourself to one genre of music has always been ridiculous.

@epstein_isnt_dead7726 Месяц назад

@@grodesby3422 I didn't say one genre. I'm pointing out that one is music and the other is mind numbing product jingles stretched in length.

@LezDentz Месяц назад

@@epstein_isnt_dead7726 What an idiot comment. That's like saying the Ministry cover of this song at 24:19 is music and all the other cover versions aren't. As it happens, the Ministry version is utter shit.

@Laszlo34 11 месяцев назад

I *AM* from the midwest. I *WAS* very confused when I first saw Annie "...with [her] orange hair...with [her] green eyes..." But by half way through that first hearing of Sweet Dreams, and first viewing of the video, I was in love! Their amazing new style, their musical ability, I was enthralled! And they have never ceased to impress. Thanks for the video, and thanks to Eurythmics for their great work over the years!

@RahduDrahkqul75 Год назад

Honestly I'm glad that they reinvented themselves as the Eurythmics, the song writing got better. Sweet Dreams was a spark of genius. It was very similar in the Simple Beauty synth wave of Love is a Stranger.

@nolesy34 Год назад

Of a different kind

@frglee Год назад

I love the idea of 'Sweet Dearms' coming from just fooling about on instruments and accidentally finding an amazing sound, saying 'what the f*** was that?' and inspired by it, immediately improvising a song from it!

@nolesy34 Год назад

@@frglee music is like that.. takes a bird whistle for example, and everyone knows that tune... one person hums, another involuntarily joins in, someone taps a foot boom next club banger

@ldkbudda4176 Год назад

@@nolesy34 ... and new Universe is born ! :)

@bobjohnson7020 Год назад

It's difficult to express what it felt like to hear this song for the first time. Nobody had heard anything remotely similar. It was a massively powerful song that immediately transformed you.

@mikeellis9720 Год назад

It sure did.

@ColRusSer Год назад

The first time I heard this song, my mind was absolutely blown. It was everything you explained. I was going through a dark period and it hit like a ton of bricks. I played it in my car, driving, endlessly.

@cabezadepija7318 Год назад

all i heard as a young teenager and then again as an adult was meaningless new wave garbage like brian eno's crap... even the talking heads sound good in comparison; this goes to show how doing acid and cocaine and trying to be artsy cannot compete with having actual musical talent... lennox did make some OK stuff in the 90s so i guess she refined herself somewhat and even had a decent song featured in the end credits of a sopranos episode

@larsbundgaard5462 Год назад

I grew up with this song on the radio as a small kid. It's one of those songs that stuck around and "haunted" me. Annie Lenox, a name and a personality I still remember, even though I was to young to understand any of it. Still listen to the song from time to time even though synth pop or what this is, is not really my thing. Thinking about it as I write this, I think that I appreciate the song especially because it's not the standardized pop&rock music from this era, which I most certainly do not like. It wants more than just being "ear candy".

@lotharschiese8559 Год назад

@@larsbundgaard5462 It is an anomaly. Eh!

@rustybearden1800 3 месяца назад

Who knows what random circumstances create artistic greatness? I was a washed up disco kid who grew up on the British Invasion, got lost in the singer/songwriter early 70s and then baptized in American Pop Rock and then the craziness of the disco era. Electronic and synth oriented music began to intrigue me as a palate cleanser to everything else. It threw conventions out the window and reimagined sounds and rhythms in new and sexy ways. But when The Eurhythmics dropped Sweet Dreams it really sounded like nothing else and Annie with her radical image. Incredible! I became an instant and lifelong fan. Great post and great subject matter - I subscribed!

@bluecrueful 7 месяцев назад

This is a great history you have provided. I grew up in New York and was a teen in the 80s, and you are correct: British New Wave bands were dominant on the airwaves in the early part of the decade....

@triarb5790 3 месяца назад

I grew up in the UK, and was in late teens early 20s by the height of New Wave and Brit Punk popularity. Brit Punk being harder, darker, edgier and much more raw. The reason they were so popular for us was threefold. One was the hopeful resurgence of Brit Pop after a lull dominated by big US bands post Beatles. Another was they looked like us, dressed like us, from our streets, Americans were different to us, much more so than now. Finally, they resonated with the depression of growing up in hard nosed Thatcherite Britain, contrasting with the inspiration of a connected Europe. The lyrics frequently touch on what was going on for us as British youth, rather American concepts that really meant nothing.

@ffjsb Год назад

Annie's classic beauty shone through any outfit she wore, and her pure vocal talent was obvious to anyone who wasn't tone deaf. It was all just really good music.

@AurioDK Год назад

So true, I remember not thinking about what she was wearing, didn´t care. I was fascinated by her voice and presence, she could captivate you with her eyes.

@stevenknill2179 Год назад

I am a little tone deaf and I think she has a amazing voice!

@travcollier Год назад

Yeah, that whole "controversy" was just bizarre to me at the time. It was never a question that Lennox is a woman, and a striking one at that. She rejected some of the superficial presentation stuff, which is just cool and frankly feminist IMO. If you've never seen it, definitely watch the video for the Eurythmics track "Beethoven"... It is just awesome. BTW: I did have friends who were freaked out by Boy George (and Pete Burns too)... I didn't really get that either, but I could at least imagine the way it might trigger a homophobic backlash in some guys.

@Demun1649 11 месяцев назад

@@travcollier Only the guys who were not confident in their own sexuality had problems with Boy George and Adam Ant. Both nice blokes to talk to at promotions at nightclubs.

@travcollier 11 месяцев назад

@@Demun1649 Definitely true. My friend who freaked out most about Boy George did finally come out as gay when he went to college. As for me, I had a girlfriend who liked to hang out in the "gay" part of town (one of the few places a girl could feel relatively safe)... I was decent looking when I was younger, and got pretty comfortable turning down flirting guys nicely. Never a problem, just took it as a compliment... I was the weirdo ;) Though I don't think I knew anyone who was freaked out by Adam Ant... He's just flash

@MrLurchsThings Год назад

It’s interesting to see/hear the media/industries back lash on how Annie dressed and the way she presented herself back in the 80s whilst looking at that thru 2023s lens, that she is one of the most beautiful women to ever front any international group. Although the focus on her looks vs her talent is something that modern artists still live with today. 23/04/2024: just as a comment on the 180+ replies, I’m not agreeing with the point of views raised in the video or even if the points raised are that valid (or at least were as widespread as the video states). Simply that the points were raised and that they’re interesting vs what’s generally considered perfectly fine now. IMHO Annie is one of the most important people in modern music. Be it her incredible talent or the way she pushed the norms of the early 80s in regards to her style.

@nolesy34 Год назад

She was something something special

@mj.l Год назад

she was a trailblazer in helping kick down another door of patriarchal gender role conformity, but it's depressing that she had to go through so much.

@nolesy34 Год назад

@@mj.l thats why she was driven away.. she wasn't strange she was a different kind, she could have been something something special

@chaoticsystem2211 Год назад

*try to

@BandOfHarjaps Год назад

Her being so f'in pretty is probably one of the reasons for the strength of the reaction. Especially from people who suddenly began to doubt themselves.

@nimascolari1508 10 месяцев назад

Annie was and is divinity in human form. Her talent and the respect the people in the industry have for her says it all. She's the artist's artist.

@magiegainey5036 10 месяцев назад

I love Annie Lennox. When I saw Sweet Dreams on MTV the first time, I was fascinated and amazed. A strong fabulous female presence doing what she wanted, how she wanted. ❤

@Nettsinthewoods Год назад

When I saw Annie cropped and oranges her hair, my own hair stood on end. I was so inspired and so proud of what she was expressing. At the time, I had bought my first house and had to endure incoming workmen asking me if I should speak to my husband before making any decisions - the husband I didn’t have. Fist pump Annie. X great video, thank you.

@neverettebrakensiek8771 Год назад

YES ! I had just bought my home too during the early 80s and remember those types of moments. It wasnt until that I realized women still werent really viewed as equals. I hadnt thought that much about those things prior to being on my own .

@Nettsinthewoods 11 месяцев назад

@@neverettebrakensiek8771 exactly, neither had I. ❤️

@SamSung-xz7jt 3 месяца назад

Sorry, but you guys are gross. Oops. I mean ladies. ... guys... ...ladies... (???)

@newtronix Год назад

Love is a Stranger is such a great song. It's right up there with Say Hello, Wave Goodbye.

@LUFC-yl2cd Год назад

love soft cell

@rachcampb Год назад

Love is a Stranger may be my favourite track of theirs. I'm also very fond of their soundtrack for 1984.

@Bat_Boy Год назад

‘This City Never Sleeps’ is the dark gem that is always overlooked. An acoustic version with a great singer like Annie, would be epic.

@jamesgrover2005 Год назад

Such a great song I'd forgotten about. I was 13, this time shaped my taste in music with it's explosion of electronic delight ❤

@kenlieck7756 Год назад

It sounds so natural, like it's composing itself out of thin air as you listen to it. I can see why SD was the hit, though.

@trappedkitty5335 10 месяцев назад

Fucking great presentation! I love the Eurythmics and just about every band they were up against for air time. You treated them as equal contenders instead of comparing them against each other, which is professional and respectful. The deep dive selections you made for interview cutaways gave your video the gravity to keep me watching, offering more than trivia-they offered insight. And that's a rare beast on RU-vid. Kudos!

@PickleRick65 5 месяцев назад

Wow this was Awesome. I remember all this music...crazy... Thanks for keeping it Alive💪💪

@rleriche5044 Год назад

Nobody who makes music can ignore the touch of this song.

@Tasarran Год назад

Annie's every tiniest gesture during the Sweet Dreams video is pure gold... Every little head tilt, every tiny hint of a smirk... Brilliant

@teemcshanney8910 11 месяцев назад

She's an amazing actor and singer, obviously capable of channeling her every thought through movement and sound!

@bojangles2492 Месяц назад

So peculiar just as I noticed that your comment appeared immediately under my eyes.

@0r1gam1Abby 11 месяцев назад

Really good piece. Eurythmics was one of my favorite bands growing up. I have their greatest hits album. Hard to believe the music producers were afraid to play it. Grateful to the lone station that gave it air and allowed Annie Lennox to fly.

@colinmcdonald2499 9 месяцев назад

As a midwestern kid, my suburb didnt't have cable available until maybe 1986, so I didn't have MTV. There was a music video program afteramschool uHF channel 60 ( later 50). The Eurythmics video that got lots of play there was " Here comes the Rain Again".

@felixjones9198 Год назад

Sweet Dreams was the first album I ever bought. Love Is a Stranger is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever.

@guyintenn Год назад

Sweet Dreams was released the year I graduated from high school in the U.S and I worked part time for a top 40 fm radio station. I don't recall America being "Outraged". We never had any negative feedback at the station (located in rural east Tennessee) concerning Sweet Dreams, in fact it was a top requested song for quite some time.

@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Год назад

@@horacesheffield7367you realise that the outrage on both sides of the political divide is, for the most part, the product of carefully planned prodding and provocation right? Neither side is for the most part (of course there are exceptions) as extreme as the other paints them as and the entire point is to have you all at each others throats rather than finding any commonality and holding the people who are leading you around by the nose accountable for the things that they're doing in spite of you both.

@ericp6496 Год назад

Indeed. Zero outrage. Video maker is making stuff up.

@miggypeso909 Год назад

Thankyou!! What the hell are they talking about? Nobody cared.

@bz5791 Год назад

@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Your comment is way too intelligent. Say it louder for the people in the back.

@slangcorp 11 месяцев назад

yeah this video is a huge exaggeration, this was one of the most popular songs ever, nobody was outraged

@stevec-b6214 3 месяца назад

This is more than I ever expected! I loved it all, well done, beautifully done.

@SosiskaTheHorrible 15 дней назад

I forget how good they are and how perfect Annie Lennox voice is

@MissHellblazer Год назад

How anybody could not recognize that Sweet Dreams is a massive hit escapes my mind

@chuga92 Год назад

I doubt it was a mistake. Marilyn Manson is someone best left to be forgotten

@chuga92 Год назад

@@sprinkleddonuts6094 sex offenders should never be remembered

@robertgeranis4552 Год назад

The Eurythmics was one of those groups that just jumped out of the TV at me. I remember seeing Sweet Dreams for the first time on Friday Night Videos (no cable or MTV where I lived). At 11:30 on Friday night, my eyes, ears and mind were open wide! I bought the 45 at Ames department store that weekend! Still have it. Thank you Annie and Dave!

@horitauri 11 месяцев назад

Sweet Dreams was released at the same time fm radio was rolled out here in NZ. Fm produced a crisper sound than what we were used to and it could finally heard in stereo. Just like listening to the record. It sounded like this song was made for fm radio. Unforgettable. I will always associate the three together. I was at their Revenge tour concert in Auckland in1987. I just wasnt expecting it to be as great as it was. I was blown away. Annie is an amazing front person with perfect vocals. Dave is a wicked musician. Clem Burke on the drums. Wow......total energy plus.......The whole band was amazing. I rate it right up there as one of the best concerts ive been to.

@russreed7841 9 месяцев назад

These videos are true quality work. Presentation, script & editing are top shelf. Looks like I found a reason to keep visiting RU-vid. Well done.

@gtmuse329A Год назад

Annie’s voice is simply amazing!

@Lydisquidie Год назад

Wow! I always loved them but hearing about the struggles they endured just makes me love them more. And I love that Annie was a Drag King for an awards show 🥰 she's amazing.

@miketalley5476 Год назад

I remember watching that awards show, at the time, and being thoroughly confused by Annie's presentation. I had expected the orange haired, New Wave lady, but got Elvis instead! LOL

@cristianmicu Год назад

how a masterpiece is born

@walteredstates Год назад

..The Drag King, indeed... that's just class all the way😂

@user-qy5il6wj4t 3 месяца назад

I was seven in 83 and we had MTV and a commodore 64. I used to run around saying "I want my MTV". I remember all the songs and my first records were Survivor and Cyndi Lauper. I remember Prince, M J, Tina Turner, Beastie Boys, Boy George, Twisted Sister, Flock of Seagulls, Devo, Eddie Grant, Grateful Dead , Tom Petty, Thompson Twins, Safety dance, Madonna, The Police, Eurythmics, Men at Work, Dire Straights, David Bowie, Paul Mccartney, John Cougar, ZZ top, Rolling Stones...... and watched soul train too on saturday afternoon.

@davidgoodman6928 8 месяцев назад

Well done. Wow. Amazing story and video references. I can’t believe I can see this for free. Well done to whoever has written and produced this video. Please keep doing more of them. Thanks

@coucoubrandy1079 Год назад

40yrs ! And still a song that gets me singing ( croaking rather) and Annie Lennox is so eerily beautiful ! The 80s was such an extraordinary time . Brit Pop played a massive bang in it. Thanks for the video !

@teebosaurusyou Год назад

Extraordinary and evolutionary.

@hotaruhime Год назад

Great video as always ! Sweet Dreams is an absolute timeless masterpiece. Annie Lennox performing it dressed as ELVIS at the Grammys ? What a badass ! Her voice is commanding and angelical at the same time, she's an incredible performer. And it is true : Even the supermarket becomes a dancefloor when it comes on.

@pepetherealfrog9846 11 месяцев назад

At last, I learned the history of one of the greatest band of the '80-'90 era. Great video! Just one thing is missing at the end with the covers, you forgot Marylin Manson who skyrocketed his career with Sweet Dreams.

@MicheleKire 2 месяца назад

I came here for this comment! This song made me a Eurythmics fan and later a Marilyn Manson fan.

@maxsteiner1964 Месяц назад

This was just beautiful. Thank you. Love from Norway.

@Heavywall70 11 месяцев назад

I am eternally grateful that MTV ushered in the second British Invasion. It was so refreshing and a little shocking, coming out of the 70’s into new wave. Eurythmics we’re shocking to this Midwest boy, Annie’s hair, the haunting lyrics and diverse subject matter really drew me in. Her astounding vocals drove the nail home.

@daviddalrymple2284 Год назад

I love that this video exposes the "shameful truth" of early MTV that most music histories fail to acknowledge: that for the first year or two, MTV focused heavily on AOR and adult pop (genres more associated with VH1), and that the idea of MTV as being the home of youth and alternative culture wouldn't come until 1982 and 1983.

@weirdnproud117 Год назад

I watched the very first two hours of MTV's first broadcast here on YT and was surprised by the amount of Rod Stewart and REO Speedwagon videos shown lol I'm glad it came up in this video.

@AutPen38 Год назад

It flashed up on the screen that of the first 100 videos on MTV, eight featured Rod Stewart. The guy's a legend, but that factoid blew my mind. It must have been quite a monoculture at the start. I knew that it was overly white and male to begin with, but *that much* Rod Stewart?!

@weirdnproud117 Год назад

@@AutPen38 Didn't help that MTV was conceptualized and initially programmed as strictly a MOR rock station instead of a true variety Music channel that their name suggested until David Bowie called them out.

@someperson8151 Год назад

Baby steps.

@j.f.fisher5318 Год назад

Probably after the success had been proven. Innovation usually goes that way.

@leonardo.diCATio 9 месяцев назад

I'm a drum major, and my band is performing this song in marching competitions. I've had to memorize every nook and cranny of this song, and this is really interesting to learn!

@yoshyusmc 10 месяцев назад

Thank you Britain for the second wave that brought alternative masters like The Smiths, Morrisey and one of my all time favorites Depeche Mode. So many others I failed to mention but thank you again! :)

@patrickPilcher Год назад

I remember seeing the Eurythmics perform in Wellington New Zealand and Annie stopped the show andhad a guy who was hitting his girl friend escorted out of the venue. Aside from the fact I already loved her voice and Daves musical chops, they both went up hugely in my estimates after this. They're legends!

@kymrobins2432 Год назад

Is that a fact, it really doesn’t surprise me at all that Annie stopped the show to shame that fool right out of the venue. Like yourself I loved Annie’s voice from the beginning. Like Mr Bowie, Annie’s voice has aged better than most. Absolutely loved your story I’d loved to have been there to see the spectacle unfold however I wz in Auckland still buzzing from a live performance I’ll never forget.

@isaacdalziel5772 Год назад

That's legendary. I am going to enjoy this song even more now that I know this

@mikeneill6813 Год назад

Was the incident ever captured on "film?". Someone might have it? JAT

@mikeneill6813 Год назад

Was the incident ever captured on "film"? Someone may have?.

@bobdavis4848 Год назад

@@mikeneill6813 If anyone did capture it on film / video, they absolutely should do nothing with it without the female victim's permission.

@a-goblin Год назад

I grew up in the 90's, so I never knew there was moral panic for this song. The song is an absolute banger, and Lenox's response to the attacks was fabulous.

@barryj388 Год назад

Because there wasn't. I don't remember anyone caring about how she was dressed in the video.

@airmark02 Год назад

Clubbing in NYC in the 1980's ... The drag thing never registered with my friends as it all seemed pretty normal at that point. Sweet Dreams was definitely unique for its time & still sounds fresh.

@avishalom2000lm Год назад

Remember, this was the time when right-wing Christians like Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms were making a lot of noise about "satanic" influence in music, etc. I find it hilarious that even MTV was too nervous to put Annie Lennox on.

@toddmarshall2726 Год назад

@@barryj388 Exactly! This song was released when I was 16 years old growing up in the suburbs of the American Mid-West. Absolutely no one cared about how she was dressed.

@allendulles2481 Год назад

There wasn't an backlash at all. Nobody gave a shit one way or the other. It was a popular song that was literally overplayed to death.

@reddog19d 2 месяца назад

Ms. Lennox has the most amazing pipes, I heard her sing a'capella on the Arsenio show in the 80's. Just picked up a mic and started throwing down tunes and that was when I realized that she had a greater talent than anyone would ever give her credit for... no auto tune, no nothing, just raw vocal power.

@GBernadetteMackie-jd8is Месяц назад

Whoa! That must have been magical! Lucky You!

@rebeccamd7903 Месяц назад

I grew up in Motown and I’m a contralto. When Sweet Dreams came out, I was blown away. When I saw the video I was unable to take my eyes off the screen. I was hooked!!!

@chrisgenovese8188 Год назад

well, it has over a billion listens on Spotify alone...so i'd say its still culturally relevant. way to go, Annie and Dave. you stuck it out and changed music forever.

@martharunstheworld Год назад

You bring back the memories when MTV was actually good. The Eurythmics / Annie Lennox will always be at the top! Thank you!

@terrysaltford7442 3 месяца назад

Without doubt the best female/male group ever. Even after they separated Annie's albums are superb and Dave's album "Dave Stewart and The Spiritual Cowboys" is also one of my all time favourites.

@tanakeilidh384 13 дней назад

Just found this channeI, shared this with my bf after less than a third-way in. I appreciate a biography that isn't all sunshine and rainbows or (overly)sensationalized made up of rumors and second-hand opinions. This is a brilliant piece of work. Thank you. Looking forward to more

@giri.goyo_yt Год назад

You killed it with this one. Got chills at the end. Thanks for honoring Annie and Dave in the best light possible. This channel rocks.

@MegaMaxiepad Год назад

I was a young teen when I first saw the SD video and I was hypnotized by her looks. She was so alien, fascinating. And the song purely synthetic sound, with that harsh repetitive beat killed me. They're one the reasons I have loved electronic music all my life.

@WeasleyGirl1767 Год назад

Absolutely. It's what made me love techno-pop.

@pritapp788 11 месяцев назад

I get the same feeling when I watch Kim Wilde's videos for "Cambodia" and "View from a Bridge". It's the true sound and vibe of synth-pop (which is equally true of Eurythmics and Annie Lennox of course).

@douglasgoodall3612 12 часов назад

I happened to be in the UK (I think it was 83) and went with friends to a concert in Birmingham where I saw Eurythmics for the first time. I walked away stunned by Annie Lennox energy on stage. I walked away saying, "Wow, they know how to entertain". It wasn't the kind of music I normally listened to, but their was no denying its power.

@ministryofzim 11 месяцев назад

discovered your channel today and I subscribed, I am going to be 61 this year, so I remember Friday and Saturday Nights at home with my younger brother watching music videos, so thank you for a trip down memory lane with some behind the scene commentary about the artists, the song and the etceteras.

@fstarr9923 Год назад

Saw the Eurythmics in NYC in the 80’s. Still remember the power of Annie’s voice live! ❤

@omarra6781 Год назад

This is fascinating! I was 13 when MTV came out and these bands are embedded in my very essence. Annie Lennox has a fabulous voice, I'm so glad they succeeded.

@kattoneycliffe6715 10 месяцев назад

This video clip is awesome!! So much I didn't know of the duo as we know them; The Eurythmics!! Just loved it, & Thank you!! Annie Lennox is a legend in my eyes!!

@queenofscots839 11 месяцев назад

Appreciate full length, thank you for your hard work, brilliant!❤

@rockingthemike Год назад

YESSSSSSS! my dearly departed aunt and i shared a passion for the music of eurythmics and annie as a solo artist. i will watch this and fondly remember my aunt. thank you trash theory!

@christopherproietti645 Год назад

For me, their "lost" masterpiece is the 1984 For the Love of Big Brother soundtrack. From the manic, propulsive throb of Sexcrime 1984 & Room 101 to the chillingly haunted Julia & For the Love of Big Brother to the dark electronic menace of The Ministry of Love (which is still as sinister as anything on Massive Attack's Mezzanine), this was Annie & Dave at their creative outsider peak. THANK YOU for this well-deserved segment!

@AutPen38 Год назад

I loved 'Sexcrime (1984)'. It was one of the first pop records that genuinely unnerved or even scared me. I was just at the right age though. In '84, Britain was in a pretty bad state (the long running miners' strike, high unemployment) and we were constantly worried about nuclear war, so Orwell's book about a dystopian future was ideal reading matter for young teenagers at school. It felt like there was a lot of scary stuff around (AIDS was an emerging threat too) so some of the pop music reflected that. Maybe this happens in every era though. I don't follow popular culture closely enough any more to know if the pandemic led to any sinister - but good - art or music.

@KlausBahnhof Год назад

Good call. That whole album has a dark and seductive tone, it really grows on you.

@rachcampb Год назад

Absolutely, I've always loved 1984 ❤

@JackMellor498 Год назад

I love that album. I love the idea that when it was presented to the filmmakers they rejected it, even though for me so many of those dark moody synths feel appropriately Orwellian regardless. Some of my favourite vocal work of Annie is on that album.

@tmamone83 Год назад

Oh yeah, the 1984 soundtrack! I forgot about that.

@korie4198 11 месяцев назад

I loved 80s and 90s MTV!!!!

@AandP4dummieslikeme 24 дня назад

This is fascinating. I always wondered why AL wasn't a model.

@101wormwood Год назад

this is beautiful. Didnt know that she and they had to nearly break completely before pulling one of the most recognizable songs ever out of their desperation. So much more meaningful than a song someone bought off of someone else and performed. No matter how good it is.

@jasonGamesMaster Год назад

Desperation is the source of a lot of great art... soul laid bare because there is nothing left to lose

@Tasarran Год назад

It totally makes sense, though; I always wondered where all the pathos in this song came from

@SeanGrantstormpinball Год назад

A fantastic chronicle of one of my favorite bands. I learned so much! It must have been amazing for Annie Lennox to work with Stevie Wonder, who performed the harmonica solo on There Must Be an Angel, considering that his album inspired her to drop out of music school. There is a wonderful performance of that song with her daughter Lola that was put up on RU-vid last year. Its good to know that she still can belt it out when she wants to. Thank you so much for the amazing video! I'll check out more of you videos, they are so well researched and produced!

@Deepthought-42 3 месяца назад

Thanks for posting this. Sweet Dreams and aThe Eurythmics have always been one of my favourite groups and your description of its origins, two fingers to the music industry MTV ( and middle America) mixed with eclectic recordins is great.

@MalO.ver1.0.x 2 месяца назад

Watching this amazing video on the background of one of the most famous songs in the world makes it even better. Thanks for covering this!

@2btpatch Год назад

Annie Lennox has such a powerful, unique voice and delivery. I supported her and Stewart’s music from their early days as the Eurythmics. I recall being in university in Britain. They performed there in a pub atmosphere and had bottles thrown at them. Their struggles and eventual success vindicated them as dedicated visionaries.

@DejaVuSept11 Год назад

So brave to continue! They really had to believe on themselves to keep on going!

@kevinb3812 11 месяцев назад

I'm glad you were there to support them! You threw no bottles did you?!

@alisongrable7209 Год назад

I’m a 64-year-old woman so of course I got to go down memory lane like it was yesterday I shared it with so many people, my friends that lived those years with me and my kiddos who are now in their early 20s and all their friends they are very jealous of what a great era I got to be in you did a great job with this documentary, and I am a new subscriber

@sisterhoney61 10 месяцев назад

I'm 62 and I agree with you all the way.

@kristinedoty7876 3 месяца назад

61!

@RVincents 9 месяцев назад

This is fantastic! I remember seeing Sweet Dreams on MTV when it came out. She blew my mind. I loved her look. I thought it was the highest glam... I am a hairdresser and photographer and shout director.. I was already in Salons back then and cutting all my friends Punk and New Wave hair.. So I was exposed to the looks.. Still Annie blew my mind and her voice! What a privilege to be a teen in NY in the late 70s and 80s...we had so many influences... Being in the beauty and fashion field business really opened doors for me and my mind... No style was off limits.. The acceptance was amazing for me... Thank you for this video.. You gave me inspiration to keep tackling a difficult design project... The Eurythmics.. A lesson in excellence, preservance and belief in oneself... Thank you Thank You Thank you... I need this today!

@nicolaskrinis7614 3 месяца назад

What a band and what a VOICE. Loved your video, thank you.

@lynclarke6184 11 месяцев назад

One of the best vocalists ever. Walking on broken glass my all time favourite.

@iana2127 11 месяцев назад

Brilliant song! Love it. Along with There must be an angel.

@karlfonner7589 9 месяцев назад

I am a serious heavy metal head. But I love the song little bird. I’ve got my metal version in my head of that song

@kickinghorse2405 Год назад

I was 14 when MTV came online and my brother and I could only watch it whilst visiting my grandparents who were the only people we knew back then that had cable. They'd let us watch an hour a day. :) I remember Eurythmics- and Annie in particular - as being nothing but pure revelation! Loved her!

@thisissoeasy 3 месяца назад

Amazing documentation! Thank you very much! Cheers from Outback Australia...

@a.e.rivera-weaver8175 3 месяца назад

This was an informative and may I say awesome minidoc of the Eurythmics. It's one of my favorite groups. And you introduced me to so much of the history of her in music. This was lit. Great job!

@mellowmoods8393 Год назад

I'm 53, and was 13 when this song came out, and I still have the original vinyl LP that I used to wear out over and over listening to this song in the summer of '83! That's a great album.

@bfmcarparts Год назад

9:58 After 40 years I now know why 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) grabbed my interest! It was the damn 'backbeat' standing by itself instead of connected to the lyrics! So inspirational. Thankyou Dave and Annie for not correcting it.

@Tasarran Год назад

It does make your brain stop and go, "What was that? Let me hear that again..."

@brenthatcher5748 10 месяцев назад

I really enjoy you're channel and you do a great job keeping everything interesting. It says something I watch them all the way through for bands and genres I don't even like!!!

@mariajukejax9649 2 месяца назад

For me, Annie Lennox is one of the best vocalists I have ever heard in my life. I followed her career from The Tourists. She's a queen. Long may she reign.

@PhotoMorre Год назад

Being me, born 1967 having a beer with friends in my local bar-nightclub in Sweden ~2010. Second floor nightclub, they had an evening for university students. We went up to check it out. Sweet Dreams comes on. "Whoa! DJ goes oldies!" I did not even have time to finish my thought, because at the first tones of Sweet Dream there was a roar, hands waiving and singing young people ran to the dance floor. This song is eternal!

@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns Год назад

Can I say that I absolutely love the story telling behind these videos. They are not only informative but they make you hang off every word.

@alisterfolson 8 месяцев назад

I'm loving the early videos and stories of groups b4 they made big time. Already a sub!

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@fractalmusicj Месяц назад

Now need to re-listen sweet dreams, now knowing the technology that made it, love the production on it, really got immersed into this one, and also great work with a great vid 10/10 :)

@MrMCN1963 Год назад

The music industry stifling an artist’s work because of how they dress while performing is evidence that they are not at all into ART, but just putting fresh meat into their grinders to produce endless links of sausage. Love the artists like Eurythmics, Bowie, Flock of Seagulls and others who went where their visions took them, not minding any social barriers!!!

@Od4n Год назад

The music industry as all industries are businesses looking to make money. The decision makers may understand what is and has been working in the past, but have zero idea about new, ground-breaking stuff. Imagine what could have been when they didn't get in the way of Public Enemy and Sisters of Mercy. On that note ........ Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me ;p

@deannilvalli6579 Год назад

I remember so well how MTV actually opened up chances for artists who were lesser known, but had videos, so they could get a slot on MTV and reach millions. Without that, I may never have heard the Pretenders, and that's just a scenario I don't want to contemplate!

@geraldfriend256 Год назад

Up close on their 1979 tour all original members was one of the best shows I ever saw, period.

@deannilvalli6579 Год назад

@@geraldfriend256 I wish I had seen it!

@richarddecredico6098 Год назад

Quite the myth to pimp It's all big business they pushed the bands that had corporate money behind them

@tommcdaniel2208 2 месяца назад

Listened/lived through the releases you described. .Well done, accurate analysis. Thanks for expanding on info (and related artists to check out). Even listening so many years later Eurythmics still punch and grab you as well as Annie L.'s later solo efforts. I hope this will encourage all to re-acquaint themselves with these tremendous artists.