1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: Let Me tell You a Story on. 2 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:06,240 Speaker 2: Time Cleary and leases the story behind the song. 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: Today's Story behind the song song is Sweet Dreams by 4 00:00:11,080 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: You Rhythmics. It was the fourth single from their second 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: album the same name in January nineteen eighty three, but 6 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: it was their breakthrough hit, establishing the duo worldwide. It 7 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: reached number two on the UK charts, number one on 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: the US charts, and it was number six here in Australia. 9 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, huge hit, wasn't it. And it got everyone's attention 10 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 3: because they were just so different to everybody else out 11 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 3: there and a duo is any talking about how she 12 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 3: was almost done? 13 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:38,599 Speaker 2: It's a funny story, isn't we Because on the day 14 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,360 Speaker 2: that we started to create the song Sweet Dreams, I 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 2: was in a terrible mood and I was really ready 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 2: to pack it in and to go back to Scotland. 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,959 Speaker 2: I had realized that there was no hope whatsoever and 18 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: it wasn't going to happen, and that was the mood 19 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 2: I was in. 20 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 3: So I was thinking we're done here. 21 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, And I was. I was really 22 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 2: depressed by and Davis is like, you know, he's a 23 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: very brilliant individual. So he's like okay, you're down. Okay, 24 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 2: but now well you won't mind, will you if I 25 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:10,639 Speaker 2: just go and do this. And then I was sitting 26 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 2: sort of mooching in the corner of the of the 27 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 2: studio that we had we were working in, and I 28 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 2: heared him doing this, and then I was like, hmmm, 29 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 2: that's interesting. 30 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:22,720 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Annie and Dave wrote the song after the Tourists 31 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: had broken up and they formed a Rhythmics, although the 32 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: two of them also broke up as a couple and 33 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: they continued to work together, and he says the lyrics 34 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: reflected the unhappy time after the breakup of the Tourists 35 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: break up the band, not so much affair when she 36 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: felt they were in a dream world. 37 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,039 Speaker 3: Interesting she is talking about that point in their careers. 38 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:47,559 Speaker 2: It was about that dreaming or aspirational dream everybody has, 39 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 2: and then whether or not it comes true, whether it 40 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 2: or not, it is fulfilled. And in the case of 41 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: Sweet Dreams, ironically, what the what the song was all 42 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: about actually fulfilled itself, which is so strange. And I 43 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: think about it because at the time I really had 44 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: no thoughts that the song would have such a sort 45 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: of powerful trajectory. 46 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 4: Well, certainly resonate in so many places around the globe. 47 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 3: I know, why do you think there is? 48 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: You know, it's so interesting. It's something about sweet dreams 49 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: that people latch onto that they identify with. And whether 50 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: it's because they want to celebrate a victory from a 51 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: football match or it's someone's birthday, I don't really know. 52 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 2: But there's something in the song that people just love. 53 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 2: And it's a very peculiar song because it's like a 54 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: little mandra It just goes around and around. It just 55 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 2: says the same thing over and over, and people just 56 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 2: have identified with it. 57 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: I think she's selling herself a bit short because there's 58 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 3: that magnificent voice as well. 59 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: Yes, Louisey Win, doesn't it exactly. 60 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 3: Absolutely lose you in now Dive Stewart, as Andy said, 61 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 3: there a couple of times he's in extraordinary talent and 62 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 3: he's proven that for the rest of his career as well. 63 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,600 Speaker 3: But sometimes the best things happen in the studio, and 64 00:02:57,639 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: it might not even be your equipment that you meant 65 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 3: to be ampring with. 66 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 4: It can come up with great I started to play 67 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 4: this little thing, but then Annie suddenly left to her feet, 68 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 4: going holy, and then ran to this synthesizer, which wasn't ours. 69 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 4: We weren't allowed to switch it on, and when we 70 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,239 Speaker 4: switched it on, the sound that was there was magically 71 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 4: the other sound, which right now, remember we only had 72 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 4: seven tracks on an eight track tape recorder, so but 73 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 4: by recording only three tracks, they sounded like this, which 74 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 4: is those two sequences and the drums. 75 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 3: Wow, isn't that equivalent. That's so damn good hearing in 76 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 3: the studio like that. Yeah, very very cool.