40 years ago, the duo Eurythmics released the album Touch. In it, classics such as Here Comes The Rain Again and Who’s That Girl marked the 1980s. But, still in January 1983, they exploded worldwide with another song (and video): Sweet Dreams.

The main hit from the album of the same name, the song marked generations with its simple and timeless lyrics. Sweet Dreams was his second album (the first was two years earlier), but definitive.

With a dark and powerful sequenced synth bassline, the song explored the growing industry of music videos, with a dramatic script exploring the sexual ambiguity of Annie Lennox as a dictator who warned of the social problems that would arise from material greed. This was the strategy devised by Dave Stewart, who produced the album and conceptualized the videos. Dave created the beat and Annie improvised the synthesizer riff. The two instantly knew they had a potential hit. And it saved the duo’s career.

In the original, the song ends with a keyboard fade out, but live, Eurythmics stops with an acoustic “Keep your head up”, consciously to convey a feeling of hope. Unsurprisingly, it is one of the anthems of a generation. Perfect for four decades. And many more to come!

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