my first guest tonight comprise one of the most imaginative and successful acts in pop
music let's take a look at a video from their new album touch they will be appearing at the
Capitol Theater in Passaic March 23rd and also at the Ritz here in New York City March 27th
through the 29th please welcome Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox your rhythmics [Applause]
thank you very much for being here the folks love you and that's nice tell me about the
name all last week I was saying The Eurythmics or the Eurythmics but that's not right is it
well it's like a title really so we just called ourselves your business yeah it's
um it's a name taken from a a term that was given to a new approach to teaching
music through movement back in the turn of the century it was invented by a Frenchman and we
just took it and stole it what was what was uh briefly the his method of teaching what music
through movement what does that mean well um instead of teaching children how to understand
music intellectually he thought it was a better idea to do it physically so there were certain
steps taken and certain movements it's a little bit complex but I was taught a little bit of
that when I was at school did it seem to help you at all um I think it had some effect yeah
uh what now what did you two do before you got together and before you started
uh working in a group together um well I was uh I've never done
anything else actually I ran away in a back of a group's fan when I was about
15 or something that's good advice for the kids looking into it how old are you now
you have you I'm 31 then so at 15 you just packed it in and went off with who was the group they
were called The Amazing Blondell and they played Medieval music Medieval music and uh so you got
into their van after a show and what happened yeah well while the Roadies were packing up the
gear I just uh climbed in and hid under a box and then when we got to wherever they arrived
it was scunthorpe I think somewhere obscure like that I uh I jumped out and said hello I'm still
awake kind of thing and they immediately phoned the place and I got it was my first taste of real
punishment so what did your folks do when they came and got you they didn't come and get me yeah
they were really pleased about it yeah um so and then shortly thereafter you started
performing in groups on your own um not really no I am I started sort of moving
their equipment around and then I used to watch their fingers every night and learn
a few things and in the end I used to go on before them and play and then I became
a medieval Minister myself and I used to play in the chicken courses of a medieval luncheon
it was all um girls from factories on a holiday you know and they all used to do obscene things
while I was trying to play the loot so I had to leave are those is that group still together which
one the medieval mineral group oh no uh one of them's uh well we won't get into that but
then how did you and Annie meet gelato yeah okay well you know I was just um when you're trying to
be a musician you know it's pretty hard going so you always have to have a little job on the side
to make some money and I was waitressing and I knew some guy that knew him and thought it
would be a nice idea to introduce the two of us so he came to the restaurant and the manager of
the restaurant saw him and said is that drugged out weird looking guy is he a friend of yours and
I said no I don't know who he is I sneaked out you know met him took to him and then you two
actually from almost immediately had a baby no no no no no no but you you lived together for a while
for a long time four four or three or four years a couple of weeks yes and then we just you know
anyway seemed like a long time how long was it was a bad how long have I known you for
six six six years six years three months seven weeks and a couple of days okay about an hour
but but uh now if this is if this is none of my business but you're not you're no longer you're
no longer romantically involved but you still collaborate creating well we collaborate but
yeah but is is that is there extra attention there because of what you you know used to be
involved in the past oh yeah I mean see we had a lot of makeup before now but we're usually
real fighting you know fists and everything that's why I have to wear all these chains all the time
you folks created quite a stir or I guess more accurately you created quite a stir at
the uh Grammy Awards let's take a look we have a still photograph of your appearance there now
now of course we we recognize uh David now he's the one with the
dark hair now who is who is the guy on the right what is the deal there
well he's called L that's Earl yeah he's an ex-boyfriend of mine actually now is is Earl
a real person oh sure he's real it is and now did people did people know who that was when when Earl
came out on stage they some of them knew some I think we think I've got a bit of a shot myself
uh but now do you dress up like Earl a lot I think you better cut the program
well only occasionally you know yeah but now but that was actually you wasn't it
okay now now why would a person why what was the the purpose behind that well you know a
thing like the Grammy Awards is such a it's the heart of the music industry it's part of
the entire establishment you know everybody's in there patting themselves on the backs everybody
thinks it's wonderful to be so famous blah blah and I just thought we just thought we were invite
you to appear you know and we just thought there was no point in being there uh as people know us
you know in this kind of predictable sort of way yeah I think in a way it's a um everybody because
we're always wearing different things now he wears different wigs and such like everybody
thinks we're a real sort of fashion hip band and we would be in fashion spreads and others
but really we're uh we're just starting to make as much money as we possibly can there you go
it makes plenty of sense to me um you dressed up as Earl and you showed up and then people didn't
know what to do well the thing was you know there was all this talk about me being a transvestite
and stuff so I thought I'd give the people what they want nothing they're in their head there
had been a lot of talk about that well I had rumors you know we talked a lot about it yeah
yeah now but when you started performing your hair wasn't always the length that it is now was it
when you started well I had a brain operation and I had to get it cut and afterwards I thought it
looked so good you know why not keep it no uh you didn't you did or did you have you didn't have a
brand operation well I'd rather not talk about it again yeah keep talking about personal things with
me okay now so you had you had the hair short and then you you uh it was was orange always
the color you you wanted sure I came out looking like this yeah oh now you were you were recently
working in New Zealand yeah and you had the people were stealing things from you no they're always
stealing things from us now are these fans or uh Nair dwells or what no it was just a little
incident you know somebody somebody stole my hats you know my leopards can have you know and we only
had one how did they steal it where did they get well I after the after the show was finished the
lights went down they climbed on the stage took the hats ran off you know and we didn't have any
spares so we put out all these frantic calls you know over the radio please bring the hats back so
she had to go back on stage only in an Overcoat you see without her hats and did you get them
back sure sure well they were honest people around here actually one girl saw somebody walking down
the street wearing it she ran up to her took the Hat posted it to me yes well that's pretty
unbelievable I wouldn't I wouldn't guess that well I don't know it might happen in New York City it
did yeah uh now your headquarters in London is a church right that's right yeah how did you come
what kind of church and how did you get in there well you know we had a very big king because um
the thing is this church was one of the only churches owned by a group of people called the
agapeminites now you might not believe this story so do you want me to carry on well sure
yeah well the thing is these friends of ours are walking down the road and this little lady came
out and said you must be the men that want the church and I said no but we'll have it anyway
and uh so they gave her these guys a church and this is in southeast England and later on again
they bought another church and then they found out both churches contained the same books and
they were written by the agar permanites they were the first hippies in the 18th century who
were all for free love and all this kind of thing communal living and someone else over there and
so this looked like the kind of church for us so we actually got in on the deal and now we have
half of a church we have a recording studio and a scientific experiment room where Annie practices
with her wigs and things and a dancing school and all sorts of things it's very nice place actually
yeah now you're going to be uh here at the Ritz for three nights the end of March and then are
you completing a tour of the country going on a tour of the country or yeah yeah it's part of
our tour we have 34 dates in the United States so it's a lot of Pleasures to see in a lot of
places to visit well I know you folks are terribly busy and terribly successful and congratulations
it was a pleasure meeting you Annie Thank you very very much for being here David nice to see
you sir Annie Lennox and David Stewart good back ladies and gentlemen with ask Mr Melman