Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Eurythmics’ bold musical experimentation culminated in “Sweet Dreams”—the duo’s biggest hit.

When they wrote “Sweet Dreams,” Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart’s whirlwind romance had ended, but they were still looking for the perfect sound together.

Stewart wrote in his memoir:

This was a weird time in our lives. Annie and I had broke up, but we spent hours and hours together every day in the studio.

Annie Lennox told the New York Times that they wrote the song after having a huge fight.

I thought it was the end of the road and that was that. We were trying to write, and I was miserable. And he just went, well, ‘I’ll do this anyway.

With the help of its iconic video played on the fledgling MTV, the song became a #1 hit on the Billboard Top 100 in the summer of 1983.