Eurythmics Live Concert Home Videos
In 1983, Eurythmics simultaneously released the “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” LP and a video album entitled Sweet Dreams (The Video Album). The video features in-concert performances, promotional videos and narrative animation highlighting the duo’s international hits “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”, “Love Is a Stranger” and other songs from the album. The live concert performances, taped at the Heaven nightclub in London, features a selection of songs from Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), as well as two songs from their 1981 debut album In the Garden, “Never Gonna Cry Again” and “Take Me to Your Heart”.
The video album was directed by Derek Burbidge, with the exception of the promos for “Love Is a Stranger” (directed by Mike Brady), “Who’s That Girl?” (directed by Duncan Gibbins) and “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” (directed by Chris Ashbrook).
The DVD is still in print and is available for purchase from retailers worldwide.
Eurythmics Live is a concert film from the Revenge Tour stop at Sydney Entertainment Centre in Sydney, Australia on 14 February 1987 and released to home video in 1987.
The concert showcases songs from the “Revenge” album as well as their previous hits from 1983-1986. The intro and some segments in between songs feature the band filmed in a studio, including Patrick Seymour’s keyboard intro to “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and Jimmy ‘Z’ Zavala’s harmonica intro to “Missionary Man”. Scenes of Annie Lennox and backing vocalist Joniece Jamison getting ready backstage before the show are included as well.
Dave and Annie’s acoustic sets during this tour were electrifying and helped set the stage for an acoustic resurgence at rock shows in the 80s and 90s and foreshadowed MTV’s Unplugged.
Annie Lennox famously wears a red bra on stage at one point, poking slight fun at the sexualized pop stars of the day while also allowing her natural femininity to contrast with the more masculine leather look she and Dave donned for the tour. The look caused a sensation and in a now legendary performance, Annie ripped off the bra (back to the audience) on one tour stop before walking offstage.
Released on VHS and Laserdisc in early 1990, We Too Are One Too is a combination tour documentary and conceptual video clip project directed by frequent video collaborator Sophie Muller, with the exception of Willy Smax, who directed the “The King & Queen of America” video and Philippe Gautier, who directed the “Revival” video.
Documenting the 1989-1990 worldwide Eurythmics Revival tour, the video intersperses live performances, candid backstage and
on-the-road vignettes, and the five conceptual video clips made to promote the We Too Are One album: “Revival”, “Don’t Ask Me Why”,
“My My (Baby’s Gonna Cry)”, “Angel” and “The King & Queen of America”. This home video was the only place the “Revival” video was made commercially available and it was not included on subsequent hits compilations.
This home video is out of print and only available as previously owned. As of this date, this important Eurythmics legacy video has yet to see a DVD release or remaster.
Peacetour is a live concert video released on 20 June 2000 on VHS and DVD. It is a recording of the band’s concert at London Docklands Arena on 6 December 1999, which was the final show of their 24-date world “Peace Tour”. All profits from the tour were donated to Amnesty International and Greenpeace.
The live concert features a selection of hits from Eurythmics’ successful 1980s period, and several newer tracks from the band’s comeback album Peace (1999). The 1985 album track “I Love You Like a Ball and Chain” is also performed, as well as two 1992 hits from Annie Lennox’s solo career, “Why” and “Walking on Broken Glass”.
The DVD version also includes several special features, such as multi-angle viewing for selected tracks (where the viewer can select different camera angles using the remote control), an interactive discography, a picture gallery, lyrics screens, and a 60-minute documentary entitled “Peacetalk” featuring interviews with band members Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart and several studio-based performances of songs.
