Eurythmics are British: Annie Lennox hails from Aberdeen, Scotland, and Dave Stewart is from the Northern England city of Sunderland. They came together in London, where Lennox went to study at the Royal Academy of Music.
“Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)” is the title track to their second album and their breakout hit, but it took a while to get noticed. “We thought we’d made something really special but we had no idea, really, the impact it would have,” Stewart told Songfacts. “Neither did the record label, which didn’t even think it was a single.”