Savage may be the least commercially successful of the albums following their breakthrough, but it remains the favourite of the duo. In recent years it’s been reappraised and lauded for its experimental sense of adventure. “One journalist wrote how it was a masterpiece, and how people never recognised it as the most extraordinary piece of music of its time. It’s certainly our darkest record – that and 1984. They’re the two albums I feel very connected with,” Annie added.

Lennox’s health problems also meant the pair were unable to play at Live Aid, missing out on another potentially career-defining moment. Singles: "hitparade.ch > Suchen nach: Eurythmics (Songs)" (in German). Hung Medien . Retrieved 2020-02-27. Eurythmics: Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 14 June 2020. Touch had three strong singles to anchor it, starting with “Here Comes the Rain Again.” It was the best of the three and the second-biggest U.S. hit they’d have (behind “Sweet Dreams”). They wrote in a New York City hotel on a rainy day, with Lennox’s meteorological observation becoming the title and the song’s starting point.

McIver, Joel (January 2006). "Eurythmics: In the Garden / Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) / Touch / Be Yourself Tonight / Revenge / Savage / We Too Are One / Peace". Record Collector. No.319. p.90. ISSN 0261-250X. a b "American album certifications – Eurythmics – Touch". Recording Industry Association of America. 4 October 1984.

There’s no iciness in the slinky “Regrets”. One can picture someone like Prince tearing into the music and making it funky. Lennox sings it in a manner that would become more familiar to Eurythmics fans in 1985. Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (Remastered & Expanded)/Cover/Eurythmics-Sweet_Dreams_(Are_Made_Of_This)-Interior_Frontal.jpg Canadian album certifications – Eurythmics – Touch". Music Canada. 1 June 1984 . Retrieved 16 October 2018. a b c d "Offizielle Deutsche Charts > Suchen nach "Eurythmics" " (in German). GfK Entertainment . Retrieved 2020-02-27. N.B. Select the 'Album' tab to display albums chart peaks. They had momentum and kept experimenting to interesting effect. 1987’s Savage, which was sort of their own Berlin Trilogy album, has undergone a critical reappraisal over the years since it flopped commercially in the U.S. But by decade’s end, Eurythmics were effectively done.Sweet Dreams went Top Five in the UK and made the US Top 20, breaking them as a chart pop act worldwide and launching them to superstardom.