A Look Back At The Pop Duo's Career

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Eurythmics was left in shock when they were asked by producer Simon Perry to record the soundtrack for the film "1984," only to find out that someone else had already done so. Annie Lennox explained to The Chicago Tribune, "We then suddenly discovered that there'd been a whole other score written by Dominic Muldowney — and no one had told us anything about it. It was shocking to us, and Dave and I wouldn't have wasted our time doing our score if we'd known beforehand."

Since Perry, along with the director, Michael Radford, were incredibly insulting to the group, there was more venom in Stewart's words when he described the situation from their point of view and said, "Basically, the producer is a two-faced rat. He'd already got Muldowney to do the music before they asked us — but they didn't tell us that." The guitarist also thought it was ridiculous that the producer would be so critical of their work, but then allow clips of the film to be used in the music video of the band's popular single from the soundtrack, "Sexcime." To Stewart, all of the controversy just seemed to be a ploy to gain more publicity for the movie.

In the end, parts of both works, from Eurythmics and Muldowney, were included in the movie, which changed depending on where the film was released around the world. Yet, while the duo definitely did not enjoy having their music dragged through the mud, they did admit that they had fun recording the album.

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