{"id":84755,"date":"2023-11-15T05:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=84755"},"modified":"2023-11-15T05:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T05:22:44","slug":"dave-stewart-going-on-tour-to-mark-40-years-of-eurythmics-biggest-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/lifestyle\/dave-stewart-going-on-tour-to-mark-40-years-of-eurythmics-biggest-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Stewart going on tour to mark 40 years of Eurythmics&apos; biggest hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The song that made all my sweet dreams come true:\u00a0Dave Stewart on why he&#8217;s going on tour to mark 40 years of Eurythmics&#8217; biggest hit<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It will be the first full-length show of Eurythmics classics in over 20 years<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0Joss Stone takes to the stage in a pretty cream floral dress as she performs with Eurythmics&#8217; Dave Stewart at The Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife: The Musical press night<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Eurythmics released their breakthrough single Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) 40 years ago, getting a chart hit really did seem like a dream for Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d had little luck with their band The Tourists and their first studio album as Eurythmics, In The Garden, had been a flop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Sweet Dreams changed everything, reaching No 1 in the US, No 2 in the UK, selling millions globally and heralding the start of one of the most successful pop duos of the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>It also changed the former couple\u2019s lives so much it enabled them to start fulfilling their own dreams \u2013 such as Sunderland-born Dave\u2019s childhood ambition to live in the Caribbean.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He now spends most of his time in the Bahamas with third wife Anoushka and usually one or more of his four children.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/19\/77520291-12720677-image-a-1_1699385320485.jpg\" height=\"419\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dave Stewart with Annie Lennox in Eurythmics\u2019 80s heyday. As Eurythmics, the duo wrote 140 songs, the most famous being Sweet Dreams\u00a0(Are Made Of This), which reached No 1 in the US and No 2 in the UK<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the release of Sweet Dreams, Dave is embarking on his Eurythmics Songbook tour of Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time in over 20 years that fans can see a full-length show of Eurythmics classics, and Annie\u2019s given him her blessing to perform their songs without her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Annie decided not to tour again ages ago,\u2019 says Dave, 71. \u2018She finds it gruelling now. We\u2019ve been offered stadiums, arenas \u2013 but Annie kept having to say no.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We still perform together but it\u2019s usually two or three songs, like for Sting\u2019s charity earlier this year.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It was US record producer Nile Rodgers who inspired Dave to tour on his own after encouraging him to play Eurythmics songs at the Meltdown Festival in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was really nervous but the show got great reviews, so I thought I\u2019d take it on tour \u2013 but Covid happened and I forgot about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Then when we were inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall Of Fame and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, and this being the 40th anniversary of Sweet Dreams, I thought, \u201cIt\u2019s now or never.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Singing on the tour are English singer RAHH, Australian Vanessa Amorosi and Dave\u2019s daughter Kaya, who is Annie\u2019s goddaughter and has inherited her dad\u2019s musical talent in spades, which she demonstrated while competing on American Idol earlier this year. Did Annie give her blessing to the singers?<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She gave her blessing to the whole thing,\u2019 explains Dave. \u2018She always knew if I was going to do something like this that Kaya would sing. She\u2019s heard her lots of times.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Annie and Dave have had an enduring friendship, deciding to form Eurythmics on the day they split as a couple yet miraculously making it work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/07\/19\/77520295-12720677-image-a-2_1699385331997.jpg\" height=\"833\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dave recently collaborated with musician Joss Stone (pictured) to create the music and lyrics for new West End musical The Time Traveller&#8217;s Wife\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s unusual,\u2019 he admits. \u2018We were a couple in a band but didn\u2019t write any songs while living together. Then we decided not to be together, formed Eurythmics and then wrote about 140 songs.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Annie also prevented Dave from sliding into addiction. When he met Annie in 1976 he had a hedonistic rock\u2019n\u2019roll lifestyle, but he says it meant he\u2019d got drugs out of his system before they hit the big time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I went off the rails before we got famous,\u2019 he explains. \u2018When we started to live together I had a 24in waist and would eat a crisp and think it was filling because I was on speed; I took LSD so many times. She encouraged me to get off all that and actually eat something.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s since sold over 100 million albums and worked with countless stars including Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Aretha Franklin. He also recently created the music and lyrics for new West End musical The Time Traveller\u2019s Wife with Joss Stone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The first time I heard her sing, I was like, \u201cHoly sh*t!\u201d\u2019 he smiles. \u2018So when Mick Jagger and I were doing the score for Jude Law\u2019s Alfie film in 2004 I suggested Joss. She nailed the song in one go and we\u2019ve been doing stuff together ever since.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Does he ever think of retiring? \u2018Retire from what? I\u2019m not really working as such. I love writing, filming, taking photos, making music&#8230; That\u2019s what I do.\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Eurythmics Songbook tour plays the London Palladium on Friday. Tickets: livenation.co.uk. 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