Touch (Eurythmics album)

Occupation

• Annie Lennox: Singing, Percussion, Keyboards
• Dave Stewart: vocals, bass, guitar, programming

Touch is the third studio album by the British New Wave duo Eurythmics. It reached # 1 on the UK album charts as the first album of the band. The music magazine Rolling Stone chose it in 2003 at No. 500 to its list of the 500 best albums of all time.

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With " Who's That Girl? " And "Here Comes the Rain Again", the duo had already written two of the tracks on the album that had been previously released as singles. For the songwriting of the remaining seven pieces for the recording and mixing Lennox and Stewart needed only three weeks in her own studio The Church in London. Among the studio musicians included, in addition songwriter Michael Kamen musicians Vic Martin, Dean Garcia, Pete Phipps and the horn player Dick Cuthell. With all these musicians the Eurythmics had already worked in the studio and the majority of them belonged to the backing. Stewart and Lennox worked in parallel in the recordings. While Stewart recording the rhythm and started bass tracks, Lennox took already on the vocals. Aim of the band was einzuspielen no second "Sweet Dreams":

"One of the things I want to do on the next album is to make musicthat is so incredibly sweet, really touching. "

"What I want to do on the next album is music that is incredibly sweet and really touched. "

For the artwork photos were used by Peter Ashworth, which he had made for an interview with the magazine The Face, and Annie Lennox's exceptional hairstyling and their experimentation expressed. The cover photo shows Lennox with a black mask and orange dyed hair, eye-catching, as if she prepares her bare arms with muscles tense for a fight. This image described as androgynous to deliberately caricaturing the traditional ideal of beauty that time.

On November 6, 1983 "Touch " was released. It was the first pop album, which was released in the U.S. at the same time as the LP and CD. Even before the official release date began on 31 October 1983, the tour for the album, which almost lasted a year and the band on New Zealand, North America, Europe led to Japan. Based on a British sitcom tour " Only Fools and Horses " was called.

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Reviews and successes

Jose F. celebrities of Allmusic considers the album for one of the best of the New Wave movement, the band succeed to combine cold synth sounds with warm vocals. The Rolling Stone praised the album as directly, without being simple-minded and as avant-garde and yet catchy.

The album peaked in the U.S. and in the UK in spring 1984 platinum status.