Dave Stewart of Eurythmics’ fame (not the other one) has appeared on Chris Evans Virgin Breakfast show, reflecting on a late-’90s appearance on the host’s previous vehicle TFI Friday.
“I remember I did this really mad thing once,” he began. “I decided to dye my hair white, wear glasses similar to yours (Evans’), wear all the wrong kind of clothes like a chequered shirt and stripy jacket and everything f***ed up.”
“We were hiding in a dressing room across the road to TFI Friday and I had Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Sinead O’Connor in wigs to do backing vocals, but we didn’t say who they were. I looked nuts and I was singing a song that was nuts, calling Happy To Be Here. And then Brian Eno playing Omnichord”
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“And I just watched it on Youtube and I was like ‘what a nutcase I was… well, I still am.”
Well… we’ve long known that Stewart is a wee bit eccentric. Now 73, he revealed that unlike most old-age pensioners, he’s something of a night owl. “I had to stay up all night to be up at this time,” he admitted. “I just never seem to get to sleep until 3 or 4 in the morning. So today – or tonight or whatever it is – I thought I’d just f***…”
That was the first of three F bombs that the guitarist proceeded to drop in the first three minutes.
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The rest of the interview sees Stewart ramble on about AI, Visa cards and the early days of the Eurythmics when he and Annie Lennox had to borrow £5000 from their local branch of Barclays to record their first album – “The bank manager did look a bit worried about the two of us because we did look a bit eccentric.”
“I was always doing wonky ideas to make us think differently,” he explains, before recalling the time when they painted a cow purple for the Sweet Dreams video: “In the video Annie and I are singing and then a cow walks in and at one point the cow is staring at me and it just turns purple.”
” I was just imagining people in the middle of America seeing us two – Annie with her cropped hair and me looking like a nut on a wooden computer and a cow wandering around a boardroom… but evidently they liked it.”