THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

562-Eurythmics-Here Comes the Rain Again.

1984-Number 8 single.

Best Bit-At 2.35. No expense spared, there’s a 30 piece orchestra playing on this.

The Eurythmics were formed in 1980, in Wagga Wagga, Australia, by Dave Stewart, and Annie Lennox. The pair had first met in a London restaurant in 1975, where Lennox was working at that time. They first played together in 1976 in the Punk Rock band ‘The Catch,’ who after one unsuccessful single release evolved into ‘The Tourists.’ With The Tourists they released three studio Albums, and six singles, of which four made the UK top 40 between 1979-1980.It was during this period that Stewart and Lennox were romantically involved, but both felt stifled at ‘The Tourists’ lack of creativity, and they decided that they wanted to branch out on their own as a duo, even so their romance had come to an end.

David Allan Stewart was born on September 9th, 1952, in Sunderland, England, and Ann Lennox was born on December 25th, 1954, in Aberdeen, Scotland. As the Eurythmics they have released eight studio Albums between 1981-1999, and achieved 23 UK top 40 singles, including the 1995 chart topper ‘There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart’.) The Eurythmics were active between 1980-1990, and again between 1999-2005, with both artists pursuing very successful solo careers in the interim. The bands name ‘Eurythmics’ came about from a method of teaching music through movement, developed by the Swiss musician Emile Jaques-Dalccroze (1865-1950,) Lennox had studied it while a student.

‘Here Comes the Rain Again’ was the third single releases from the Eurythmics third studio Album ‘Touch’ from 1984, and was co-written by David Stewart, and Annie Lennox. The string arrangements were by Michael Kamen (1948-2003,) who was an American composer, especially of film scores, and performed by members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. Stewart has said that the song was written while he and Lennox were staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York.It was an overcast day, and while Stewart was playing a melancholy melody on his keyboard, Lennox looked out the window at the grey skies over the New York skyline and spontaneously sang ‘Here comes the rain again,’

‘Here Comes the Rain Again’ is probably a song about unrequited love. The narrator wants the one she loves to share the same feelings, but when they don’t, she gets depressed.

‘So baby talk to me like lovers do, walk with me like lovers do, Talk to me like lovers do.’