Be Yourself Tonight

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Released April 29, 1985 Length 43:15 Artist Eurythmics Producer David A. Stewart		Recorded January 1985 Be Yourself Tonight(1985) Revenge(1986) Release date 29 April 1985 Label RCA Records

Genres Pop music, Rock music, New wave, Pop rock, Contemporary R&B Similar Eurythmics albums, Pop music albums

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Be Yourself Tonight is the fifth album by the British pop duo Eurythmics, released in 1985.

Album background

Largely recorded in Paris, with additional recording in Detroit and Los Angeles, this album saw Eurythmics move away from their previous more experimental, synthesizer-based songs, to a more commercial pop/rock sound. Combining elements of Motown and rock music, the album incorporates a more traditional band line-up/instrumentation. Nonetheless, the recordings still possessed an atmospheric and cutting edge sound, winning Stewart awards for his production work on the album. The release of the album also coincided with a new look for singer Annie Lennox, who ditched the androgynous look of the previous albums and became, in biographer Lucy O'Brien's words, "a bleach-blonde rock 'n' roller." Be Yourself Tonight included guest appearances by notable artists such as Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, and Elvis Costello.

Chart performance

Be Yourself Tonight is Eurythmics' best-selling studio album. It reached the top 3 in the UK and top 10 in the US, as well as spawning several hit singles. The album included the duo's first (and only) UK number-one "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and the American Top 5 and Australian number-one hit "Would I Lie to You?".

No tour followed the album's release, due to Lennox's recuperation from vocal fold nodules (which also caused her to miss 1985's Live Aid concert).

On 14 November 2005, Sony BMG repackaged and released Eurythmics' back catalogue as "2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues". Each of their eight studio albums' original track listings were supplemented with bonus tracks and remixes.

Track listing

All tracks written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, except where noted.

Credits

Eurythmics

Annie Lennox – vocals, keyboards (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?" and "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"), keyboard sequencers on "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"

David A. Stewart – guitars (all tracks except "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)", including electric and slide guitars on "Conditioned Soul" and 6-string octave guitar on "Adrian"), keyboards (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?", "Adrian" and "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"), sequencers on "Would I Lie to You?", bass sequencer & drum programming on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

Additional personnel

Dean Garcia – bass guitar (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?", "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain" and "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"), wood stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

Olle Romo – drums (all tracks except "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain" and "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"), wood stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

Nathan East – bass guitar on "Would I Lie to You?" and "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"

Stan Lynch – drums on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"

Mike Campbell – lead guitar on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" and "Adrian"

Benmont Tench – organ on "Would I Lie to You?" and "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"

Stevie Wonder – harmonica on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"

Dave Plews – trumpet on "Would I Lie to You?" and "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"

Martin Dobson – saxophones on "Would I Lie to You?" and "It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"

Sadie (and other uncredited performers) – gravel stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

Adam Williams – drum programming on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

Michael Kamen – strings on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Better to Have Lost in Love (Than Never to Have Loved at All)", celeste on "Adrian", keyboard solo and string parts on "Here Comes That Sinking Feeling"

Aretha Franklin – guest vocals on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"

Richard Cross – backing vocals on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" http://www.elgringooo.fr/index.php/2007/10/24/889-richard-cross-la-voix-angelique-de-must-be-talking-to-an-angel-eurythmics

The Charles Williams Singers – backing vocals on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain", gospel choir on "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves"

Elvis Costello – harmony vocals on "Adrian"