Eurythmics fans have long hoped that the iconic ‘80s modern pop duo — consisting of supremely talented vocalist Annie Lennox and acclaimed musician Dave Stewart — might one day reunite and mount a major tour.
But that’s probably not in the cards, says Stewart, for the band that produced such memorable hits as “Love Is a Stranger,” “There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart),” “Here Comes the Rain Again” and, of course, “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This).”
“Uh, no,” Stewart says when asked whether the Eurythmics would ever tour again. “I would. But, you see, Annie has stopped touring and has said many times she doesn’t want to tour, doesn’t like touring.”
Thus, those wanting to hear the band’s classic tunes played in concert should consider catching Stewart’s Eurythmics Songbook: Sweet Dreams 40th Anniversary Tour, which sounds like a pretty good option given the rave reviews that the trek got during its U.K. and European dates last year.
The trek touches down on Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, with Stewart serving as the opening act for longtime friend and headliner Bryan Adams.
“The first time I met Bryan Adams, he appeared onstage with me and Annie out of nowhere in Canada. I think it was about 1984,” Stewart recalls. “That was how I met him — he was suddenly onstage with us.”
This current trek marks the first time that Stewart has toured North America in roughly a quarter of a century.
“It wasn’t a really big tour,” Stewart remarks about the prior road show. “It was the Peacetour with Annie (in support of the Eurythmics’ last studio album,1999’s “Peace”). “I think we only played three places in America.”
The tour also serves as a well-earned 40th anniversary celebration for “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” the 1983 breakthrough effort that propelled the Lennox and Stewart to the upper echelon of the pop charts. The album and its title song made the Eurythmics…
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