Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
January 21, 1983
Sweet Dreams ( Are Made of This ) is a song by Eurythmics from the year 1983. Was written by the band and produced by David A. Stewart. The song is mostly just called Sweet Dreams. The song was written on the day of the dissolution of the relationship between Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart and Lennox shows ' view of what drives people in their lives. In the list of 500 greatest songs of all time, the song reached 365th place since the publication of the band playing the song on every concert.
Formation
Annie Lennox had felt the time their relationship with Stewart as very stressful and Stewart explained that it would end this. While they took this very, Stewart went to the drum machine to program some of the rhythms. This aroused the interest of Lennox and they sat down at the synthesizer. According to Stewart came the melody of the main riffs " out of nowhere " and the duo launched the tape recorder. Annie Lennox began to sing, and within half an hour the song was finished. Later, Stewart explained that he had simply pressed the wrong button on the drum machine and so the rhythm is created.
The recordings took place on an eight -track recorder. Here, the duo used countless different textures to give the song a sophisticated sound. Near the studio there was a wood factory, so the recordings of the song had to be interrupted again and again because of the work noise. These clicks during the last repetition of the chorus were not recorded by electronic means. The duo filled empty milk bottles with different amounts of water and smote them at the desired locations.
Publication
Sweet Dreams ( Are Made of This ) was published on May 12, 1983 worldwide. It was a number-one hit in the U.S., Canada and France. The song is 4:52 minutes long, on the B - side is the piece I Could Give You (A Mirror). It was released as the fourth song from the same album. 1991 published by the Eurythmics another version of the song entitled Sweet Dreams ( Are Made of This ) '91, which reached number 48 in the UK.
Music Video
For the music video Chris Ashbrook was obtained as a director, the screenplay was written by Dave Stewart. It was filmed on 11 and 12 January 1983 in the Trillion Studios, the exterior shots were held in the county of Kent. Here also the surrealist -inspired design of the clip was very influential. Are striking in the video Lennox's androgynous appearance, the scenes and the cows. For MTV, the video is one of the most played clip.