Artist Flashback Eurythmics part III

As appropriate for a group passing their commercial pinnacle, Eurythmics began branching out into other areas. During 1985 and 1986, Dave Stewart produced a number of superstars, including Bob Dylan, Daryl Hall, Tom Petty, and Mick Jagger. Annie Lennox began a short-lived acting career, appearing in Revolution.

Eurythmics reconvened in 1987 to release Savage, which was greeted with mixed reviews and weak sales.

If Revenge, Eurythmics' fifth album, marked a slight fall-off in the group's commercial and artistic accomplishments, Savage, their sixth collection, confirmed that decline. In the U.S., the album failed to generate a substantial hit single





(though both "I Need a Man" and "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" charted) and sold poorly compared to previous efforts. In the more faithful U.K., the album hit the Top Ten and spun off four chart singles, but none that matched earlier hits. Musically, Eurythmics for the most part abandoned the more conventional pop/rock they recently had been pursuing, returning to the synthesized dance music and arch tone of their early hit "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).

" (Revenge had credited a rock band backing -- guitar, drums, etc. -- Savage simply noted, "All programming by Olle Romo.") But they still seemed less inspired than before, and when a song came up called, "Do You Want to Break-Up?," it was hard to avoid thinking that the title had more to do with the group's future than with romance. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide




That same year, Stewart married Siobhan Fahey, a former member of Bananarama who had also appeared in the "Love Is a Stranger" video; she would later be a member of Shakespear's Sister, which was produced by Stewart. In 1988, Lennox had a hit duet with Al Green with "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," taken from the Scrooged soundtrack.