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Stewart explained: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I could actually get something interesting things happening. Y\u2019know, like sequenced little sort of random hold patterns that sounded very exciting to us, even though it was just coming out of the plastic speaker in a crappy hotel room in Wagga Wagga. We weren\u2019t even writing songs, I was just messing about on it.\u201d <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that messing about was enough.\u00a0 Exhausted from the breakup of their band and their own personal tensions, but still excited about the potential of music making together, the pair realized that they could join forces as a duo creatively while ending their romantic partnership. On the flight home, Lennox suggested they stop living together. Stewart later recalled:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI remember our conversation. It wasn\u2019t even a long one, \u2018cause we were so exhausted. She goes, \u2018Y\u2019know what? We should probably try living separately for a second or whatever? And we both went, \u2018God yea, we should,\u2019 and then we fell asleep. We went back to our flat and then Annie moved upstairs, just literally one room above. So we still saw each other all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The early months of their new collaboration was a time of fruitful experimentation. Stewart spent a lot of time exploring pairings of the Wasp with the EDP proto-sequencers the Spider and a TEAC 144 Porta studio.\u00a0 Their first album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Garden, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was released by RCA in October of 1981 showcases some of these new experimental sounds. Two more singles led the duo\u2019s movement toward an almost fully electronic sound &#8211; \u201cThis Is the House\u201d and \u201cThe Walk\u201d &#8211; both released in 1982.\u00a0 Both songs would appear on their 1983 album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but it was the title track from this album that truly propelled the Eurythmics into the spotlight, and continues to live on as a staple of dance club music.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweet Dreams is a remarkable track for many reasons, not the least of which is the structure. It is basically one big, repeating chorus, with two other smaller interludes&#8230;we can call them a pre chorus and a bridge.\u00a0 There are no complex verses to bring out lyrical meaning and contrast the hookiness of the chorus &#8211; the entire song is complete hook.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chorus itself is interesting for its dark, deceptive meaning. We hear supposedly positive lines like \u201cSweet Dreams are made of this\u201d juxtaposed against a minor mode, haunting musical setting.\u00a0 It appears then, that these initial lyrics are not what they seem, and instead offer a disillusioned view of the world. This juxtaposition actually mirrors the song\u2019s composition in which Lennox was struggling with depression while Stewart was energized by the discoveries he was making on new equipment they had just received. Steward recalled: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShe [Lennox] was curled up on the floor in the fetal position when I managed to produce this beat and riff. She suddenly went: \u2018What the hell is that?\u2019 and leapt up and started playing the other synthesiser. Between the two duelling synths we had the beginnings of \u2018Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sound which had inspired Lennox was that of a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MkI Movement Systems MCS Percussion Computer, which the pair had purchased second hand. Steward turned a tom-tom sound down low to sound like a huge bass drum &#8211; which he liked for its \u201cthud\u201d quality without having too much of a \u201cboomy\u201d effect.\u00a0 It was purely an accidental discovery, but when Lennox heard the sounds Stewart was creating with it, alongside the synthesizer riff he was still working out, she jumped onto a Oberheim OB-X and began adding a string sound. Stewart explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe drum computer was triggering a sequence into the Roland SH\u2011101 that sounded powerful, and the Oberheim was more of a soft string sound that we managed to cut off so it made it more attacking. I think it was actually a preset, I don\u2019t think we made the sound. The Roland is playing the original sequence and then Annie was playing in between it. \u2018Sweet Dreams\u2019 always confuses keyboard players when they try and play it, because they don\u2019t realise it\u2019s actually two keyboard parts that are playing completely different things.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lyrics came quickly, and while they are repetitive, are also quite powerful. In addition to the song\u2019s disillusioned chorus, the pre-chorus highlights the darker undertones of human motivations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of them want to use you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of them want to get used by you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of them want to abuse you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of them want to be abused<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lennox explained: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe song \u2018Sweet Dreams\u2019 is a personal statement about people\u2019s motivations, in their lives, their own dreams. I replaced the word \u2018motivations\u2019 with the word \u2018dreams\u2019. I\u2019m saying these are motivations as human beings, and there\u2019s no way, whether I disagree, that I want to change anything about that. And everywhere I look (\u2018I travelled the world, and the seven seas\u2019), all I see is that every person on the earth is looking for that kind of fulfillment. So you have the extremes from the people who want to use and be used, the whole spectrum.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bridge section contrasts the darkness of these other two pieces by offering some words of encouragement: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHold Your Head Up\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKeep Your Head Up\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMoving On\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stewart explains that while the song captured so much of what Lennox was feeling at the time, they added in the bridge section to bring some positivity to the song. The repetitive upward motion of the chord progression, emphasizes this resilient attitude.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recording of \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d began with their home equipment and an eight-track tape machine in a studio space above a picture framing shop in London\u2019s Chalk Farm, but in the midst of production, they lost use of the space and had to transfer to another non-traditional recording venue.\u00a0 Although it would later become The Church Studios, when Lennon and Steward were working on Sweet Dreams, it was just a small room in a church in Crouch End, owned and being used by animators Bob Bura and John Hardwick. The pair are known especially for their work on Captain Pugwash and Trumpton. Stewart explained their good fortune:\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey\u2019d actually bought that church \u2018cause they needed a big space so they could make big wide shots,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cThe floor had to be very sort of solid to use all the tracking things they were using. I went back to Annie and I said, \u2018Well, you\u2019re not gonna believe this, but I think I\u2019ve got a place where we can finish recording.\u2019 It was pretty hard to believe because they didn\u2019t even want to charge us any rent. But they actually enjoyed us being there and making this music.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pair crammed into a little room with the equipment they had purchased with a \u00a35,000 loan: a Soundcraft desk, a Tascam eight-track,\u00a0 the MCS and a collection of synthesizers. Stewart recalled only having one Beyer stick microphone, intended for use on hi-hats, but which they employed for recording Annie\u2019s vocals.\u00a0 The entire project was one of experimentation and creativity. They even played milk-bottles on the track, using trial and error to figure out the right pitches and how to get the exact percussive sound they wanted. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song was released on January 21, 1983, as the fourth and final release from their album of the same name, which had been released a few weeks earlier. Steward has explained that the label didn\u2019t quite understand the song:\u00a0 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo us it was a major breakthrough, but I remember later some quite famous publishers coming to hear it and they didn\u2019t get it at all. They just kept saying, \u201cI don\u2019t understand this song. It doesn\u2019t have a chorus.\u201d But the thing is, it just goes from beginning to end and the whole song is a chorus, there is not one note that is not a hook.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So while the label was hesitant to release it, once audiences picked up on it, it proved to be not only a massive hit of its own time, but an iconic song, filling dance halls for decades to come.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its initial release, it hit the top 10 throughout Europe and North America, including the number one spot in the US, Canada and France. 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