SWEET DREAMS
They’ve revisited the 60s with The Doors, brought an epic stadium experience to the 70s via Bowie at HBF Stadium last month, and the 90s with Nirvana. Now it’s time to don a red glove and ask “Who’s that girl?” as Perth Symphony Orchestra take you to the 80s for an orchestral party like nothing before!
In 2020, the Reimagined series is giving WA audiences the rare and unprecedented opportunity to hear the music of one of rock’s most enduring symbols, the amazing Annie Lennox, live. Complete with innovative orchestral arrangements breathing new life into the songs, this is the band who were unlike anything before them, in a way you’ve never heard them before. And with three breathtaking singers set to embody the eras and unique harmonies of Lennox, it promises to be a feast for the senses unlike anything else in Perth this year.
ANNIE LENNOX
Sweet Dreams are indeed made of this. In the perfect follow up to a wildly successful Stardust: The Music of David Bowie last month, it’s impossible to separate Eurythmics from the gender-bending imagery of Lennox. When Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) made them the stars of MTV in 1983, she was an instant success. The red crew cut, like the short blonde do that followed, are 80s iconography.
She was the sister doing it for herself, and together with producer/guitarist Dave Stewart she released some of the decade’s most unforgettable songs: Who’s That Girl, Miracle of Love, Here Comes the Rain Again, Thorn in My Side, There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart), Missionary Man, Would I Lie to You, It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back), Right By Your Side, When Tomorrow Comes… the list goes on.
The fact that Eurythmics were able to do it all in such a short period of time – eight albums in eight years – is so prolific it’s almost Beatles-esque.
Add Lennox solo hits such as Walking on Broken Glass and Why and you have one of the great catalogues in popular music. And yes, this concert will feature favourites ranging from Eurythmics’ early 80s synth-pop visionary phase to Lennox solo classics including her Lord of the Rings contribution Into the West, and everything in between.
EURYTHMICS + AUSTRALIA
1983 was a big year for Eurythmics. On January 4 they released second album Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This). Later that month the single of the same name – their fourth from the record – catapulted them to worldwide adoration.
It was a major change in fortunes for the duo who just a couple of years earlier were playing in little known new wave band The Tourists, before coming up with the idea to form Eurythmics in a hotel in Wagga Wagga, central NSW in 1981. The Australian connection is appropriate given their endlessly loyal fanbase here.
Singers announced soon!
SWEET DREAMING: Eurythmics Reimagined
by Perth Symphony Orchestra
HBF Stadium, Mount Claremont
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Tickets: From $69.90+bf – on sale 9am Tuesday, October 6
through www.ticketmaster.com.au
