Eurythmics - Right By Your Side
Eurythmics - Would I Lie to You
For Eurythmics third album, Dave Stewart set out to make a "killer R&B riff." He found it one morning when he was having breakfast with his acoustic guitar on his knee. He took the riff to Annie Lennox, who wasn't sure about it at first, since it didn't fit their sound.
As Stewart explained in The Dave Stewart Songbook: "When we started putting it down the song had a lot of energy and inspired Annie to come up with the great lyric, 'Would I Lie To You" and a melody with very odd answering harmonies, 'Now, would I say something that wasn't true.' These harmonies are very unusual and Annie is a genius at working them out very quickly in her head. The song started to be a fusion between Stax type R&B and Eurythmics."
Lennox sings this from the perspective of an angry girlfriend who walks out on her cheating lover. It was not directed at Stewart, although they were a romantic couple before forming Eurythmics, but inspired by the breakup of her first marriage, to a Hare Krishna named Radha Raman.
"I was always looking for a good relationship, and you can see it in the songs, all this unrequited love," Lennox told Q magazine regarding her songwriting during this period. "I was never in one spot, so my emotions were in turmoil."
Eurythmics recorded Be Yourself Tonight in a small room they set as a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris. Lennox and Stewart lived in apartments on top of each other while they were making the album.
Benmont Tench from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the Hammond organ on this track; he and Stewart previously worked together on "Don't Come Around Here No More." Martin Dobson was brought in for horns. From: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eurythmics/would-i-lie-to-you
"Right by Your Side" was something of a departure from previous Eurythmics songs, and is an uptempo love song which features a calypso music instrumental backdrop, complete with synthesized steel drum and marimba sounds and a horn section. The steel drum sounds were triggered from a Voyetra synthesiser that Stewart acquired in New York. After spending a few hours getting the Voyetra to function, Stewart landed on a sound that resembled a set of steel drums, which was the first noise that he achieved with the synthesiser. He then worked with Lennox to develop "Right by Your Side" around the steel drum sound. According to Stewart, it took roughly ten minutes for them to write the song.
Stewart sought to record a solo that emulated the playing of King Sunny Adé, so to accomplish this, he recorded his part at half-speed and later sped the recording up. The song's horn dubs were recorded in London by some session musicians. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_by_Your_Side_(Eurythmics_song)
As Stewart explained in The Dave Stewart Songbook: "When we started putting it down the song had a lot of energy and inspired Annie to come up with the great lyric, 'Would I Lie To You" and a melody with very odd answering harmonies, 'Now, would I say something that wasn't true.' These harmonies are very unusual and Annie is a genius at working them out very quickly in her head. The song started to be a fusion between Stax type R&B and Eurythmics."
Lennox sings this from the perspective of an angry girlfriend who walks out on her cheating lover. It was not directed at Stewart, although they were a romantic couple before forming Eurythmics, but inspired by the breakup of her first marriage, to a Hare Krishna named Radha Raman.
"I was always looking for a good relationship, and you can see it in the songs, all this unrequited love," Lennox told Q magazine regarding her songwriting during this period. "I was never in one spot, so my emotions were in turmoil."
Eurythmics recorded Be Yourself Tonight in a small room they set as a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris. Lennox and Stewart lived in apartments on top of each other while they were making the album.
Benmont Tench from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the Hammond organ on this track; he and Stewart previously worked together on "Don't Come Around Here No More." Martin Dobson was brought in for horns. From: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eurythmics/would-i-lie-to-you
"Right by Your Side" was something of a departure from previous Eurythmics songs, and is an uptempo love song which features a calypso music instrumental backdrop, complete with synthesized steel drum and marimba sounds and a horn section. The steel drum sounds were triggered from a Voyetra synthesiser that Stewart acquired in New York. After spending a few hours getting the Voyetra to function, Stewart landed on a sound that resembled a set of steel drums, which was the first noise that he achieved with the synthesiser. He then worked with Lennox to develop "Right by Your Side" around the steel drum sound. According to Stewart, it took roughly ten minutes for them to write the song.
Stewart sought to record a solo that emulated the playing of King Sunny Adé, so to accomplish this, he recorded his part at half-speed and later sped the recording up. The song's horn dubs were recorded in London by some session musicians. From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_by_Your_Side_(Eurythmics_song)
