Fact #192108
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Short story:
Eurythmics release a new single, Here Comes The Rain Again, on RCA Records in the UK. It will peak at No8 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 single.
Full article:
Dave Stewart : The song started in the Mayflower Hotel in New York overlooking Central Park. It was a rainy day and I'd just got a tiny little synthesiser keyboard with me and was playing a little riff on it.
Annie and I had had a minor argument about something because we were under such incredible pressure, like you do when you become successful. We were in hotel rooms all the time and it was a rainy miserable day and I came up with this atmospheric little line on the keyboard, like a sequence. Annie liked it and wanted to play it herself, and then we were both fighting over the keyboard. She came up with the line 'Here comes the rain again' which caught the atmosphere and the rain outside.
It only took a couple of lines or an idea and we'd have the whole song almost done fifteen minutes later. It was one of those songs that we finished very quickly.
When we recorded it, were busy building our studio, The Church in Crouch End, and converting this old building, but it hadn't quite been finished. So wen it came to recording the orchestra, some of the string players were playing in the toilet and some were down the corridor. We were having to do them in different sections because the room wasn't ready. However the finished track turned out to be quite atmospheric despite all that going on.
Like most of our songs, it's got a very strange juxtaposed lyric mixed with the music, like black and white, sweet and sour, which we always had. The verse is very gloomy - "falling on my head like a tragedy" - and then the chorus goes to a major chord with "talk to me like lovers do" and is very hopeful, then goes back to the tragic verses again.
Nearly every Eurythmics song has got that contrast going on somewhere. As a songwriting duo we definitely had that spark, where one of us would say one thing and the other would say something else and, before you knew it, it was like 'Bang!' done.
It used to shock people around us. They'd leave the room to make a cup of tea, and they'd come back in and we'd finished.
(Source : Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark; Sanctuary, 2002)
Dave Stewart : Here Comes The Rain Again is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I'm playing a b-minor, but then I change it to put a b-natural in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course.
And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers do.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and blood red just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments.
(Source : Songfacts interview at https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eurythmics/here-comes-the-rain-again)
Dave Stewart : I'd been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in it.
I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, 'Here Comes The Rain Again.'
And that was all we needed. you see, like with a lot of our songs, you only need to start with that one line, and that one atmosphere, that one note, or that intro melody. And the rest of it was like a puzzle where we needed to just fill in the missing pieces.
(Source : The Dave Stewart Songbook)
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Annie and I had had a minor argument about something because we were under such incredible pressure, like you do when you become successful. We were in hotel rooms all the time and it was a rainy miserable day and I came up with this atmospheric little line on the keyboard, like a sequence. Annie liked it and wanted to play it herself, and then we were both fighting over the keyboard. She came up with the line 'Here comes the rain again' which caught the atmosphere and the rain outside.
It only took a couple of lines or an idea and we'd have the whole song almost done fifteen minutes later. It was one of those songs that we finished very quickly.
When we recorded it, were busy building our studio, The Church in Crouch End, and converting this old building, but it hadn't quite been finished. So wen it came to recording the orchestra, some of the string players were playing in the toilet and some were down the corridor. We were having to do them in different sections because the room wasn't ready. However the finished track turned out to be quite atmospheric despite all that going on.
Like most of our songs, it's got a very strange juxtaposed lyric mixed with the music, like black and white, sweet and sour, which we always had. The verse is very gloomy - "falling on my head like a tragedy" - and then the chorus goes to a major chord with "talk to me like lovers do" and is very hopeful, then goes back to the tragic verses again.
Nearly every Eurythmics song has got that contrast going on somewhere. As a songwriting duo we definitely had that spark, where one of us would say one thing and the other would say something else and, before you knew it, it was like 'Bang!' done.
It used to shock people around us. They'd leave the room to make a cup of tea, and they'd come back in and we'd finished.
(Source : Inspirations by Michael Randolfi, Mike Read and David Stark; Sanctuary, 2002)
Dave Stewart : Here Comes The Rain Again is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I'm playing a b-minor, but then I change it to put a b-natural in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course.
And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers do.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and blood red just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments.
(Source : Songfacts interview at https://www.songfacts.com/facts/eurythmics/here-comes-the-rain-again)
Dave Stewart : I'd been out on 46th Street and bought an early Casio keyboard, about 20 inches long with very small keys. It was an overcast day. Annie was sitting in my room, and I was playing some little riff on the keyboard sitting on the window ledge, and I was playing these little melancholy A minor-ish chords with the B note in it.
I kept on playing this riff, and Annie was looking out the window at the slate grey sky above the New York skyline and just sang spontaneously, 'Here Comes The Rain Again.'
And that was all we needed. you see, like with a lot of our songs, you only need to start with that one line, and that one atmosphere, that one note, or that intro melody. And the rest of it was like a puzzle where we needed to just fill in the missing pieces.
(Source : The Dave Stewart Songbook)