Did you ask fellow superstars for advice? Bowie, say, or Boy George? No, I never asked anybody for advice. I could list some incredible people that I met for about three minutes.
And being quite shy, I was quite star-struck by them. I met Prince backstage at a club and had to try to coax the conversation out of him. It was kind of wonderful, but odd. By , Eurythmics were at the peak of their chart powers with Be Yourself Tonight , the best-selling album of their career which also featured guest appearances from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Elvis Costello.
The LP made the No. On Be Yourself Tonight , which featured a number of big names on some of your biggest hits, you created a sound that would work on a massive stage. I know Dave was thinking along those lines. I was comfortable with both. But it was very hard, physically, to perform. Physically, it would make me very anxious.
I never knew if I was going to be able to make it through the gig. It was a relief when I came offstage that I still had my voice.
How far removed were you from the fearsome character we remember from the classic Eurythmics videos? With acting, though, you have a script and a character but, in the performance, you are that character. The less drama I have in my life, the better. I felt angry and I carried a rage around with me. Where did that come from?
Oh, lots of different things. The way women are dealt with by men. A lot of our songs are about misfortune, or pain, or rejection. I was disappointed, and I think that comes through. I always thought of the songs as universal, not specifically about me, even though there were some specific things.
Savage has been reappraised recently. Have you noticed? We were struggling to create music. We were struggling to be in the same room. We needed to get away from each other.
It was so hard. It was like, I would really rather not be here and [for us to] be as far away from each other as possible. But [the stressful situation] went on for a long time and I was relieved [when Eurythmics went on hiatus].
Although no formal split was announced, tensions between Lennox and Stewart meant that the band went on indefinite hiatus in Annie went on to huge solo success, releasing the albums Diva in and Medusa three years later. The success of your solo albums must have been affirming? It made me feel like my own person, my own artist, and that I could do things in an autonomous way.
That was very important because it did give me a sense of who I was and that I did have value on my own. Was that prompted by the death of Peet Coombes? Something like that. There are some great songs on there. Bowie, too, has that kind of haunted beauty. Is that something that runs throughout your work?
Yeah, definitely. Could you face doing it again? I think it would be interesting for a younger generation to be introduced to it. Some of the albums, like Savage , are being reevaluated as great examples of what you can achieve in pop.
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