Live 1983–1989

Infobox Album | Name = Live 1983-1989
Type = Live album
Artist = Eurythmics


Released = November 1993
Recorded = March 1983-October 1989
Genre = Synth Pop
Length = 106:27
Label = Arista
Producer = David A. Stewart
Reviews =
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h267mpcd9f8o~T1 Allmusic.com] Rating|2|5| Last album = "Greatest Hits"
(1991)
This album = "Live 1983-1989"
(1993)
Next album = "Peace"
(1999)

"Live 1983-1989" cobbles together live performances across Eurythmics' hit years, presenting them as a single, continuous performance on two discs.

Presented chronologically, the performances also hew to the material released near the time of recordings: Tracks from 1983 such as "Love Is a Stranger" and "Who's That Girl?" are culled from 1983 concerts and sound very similar to their studio-recorded, electronic leaning versions despite the availability of later performances in which the songs are performed acoustic or with a rock band.

A limited three-disc version provides the exception. The third disc contains six songs drawn from a short acoustic set performed during the "We Too Are One" tour. Songs such as 1983's "Here Comes the Rain Again" and "Right By Your Side" are included along with more recent fare: "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart."

Track listing

All songs written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart, expect where noted.

Disc one

#"Never Gonna Cry Again"
#"Love Is a Stranger"
#"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)"
#"This City Never Sleeps"
#"Somebody Told Me"
#"Who's That Girl?"
#"Right By Your Side"
#"Here Comes the Rain Again"
#"Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)"
#"I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"
#"Would I Lie to You?" . [ abridged version - fade out at 3:34 ]

Disc two

#"There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"
#"Thorn in My Side"
#"Let's Go!"
#"Missionary Man"
#"The Last Time"
#"The Miracle of Love" [ Wrongly credited as recorded in Paris, September 1989. The short speech by Annie has been removed but actually recorded in Sydney on February 14 1987 and fully featured on their Live video ]
#"I Need a Man"
#"We Two Are One"
#"(My My) Baby's Gonna Cry"
#"Don't Ask Me Why"
#"Angel"

Disc three (Bonus Acoustic CD - recorded live, Rome 27 oct 89)

#"You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart"
#"Here Comes the Rain Again"
#"Would I Lie to You?"
#"It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)"
#"Right By Your Side"
#"When Tomorrow Comes" (Lennox, Patrick Seymour, Stewart)

Personnel

* Annie Lennox
* David A. Stewart

No indication of the recording they are appearing on :

* Clem Burke - drums
* Dick Cuthell - brass
* Martin Dobson - brass
* Malcolm Duncan - brass
* Sarah Fisher - backing vocals
* Mickey Gallager - bass
* Dean Garcia - bass
* Joniece Jamison - backing vocals
* Victor Martin - drums
* Chucho Merchan - bass
* Gill O'Donovan - backing vocals
* Suzie O'List - backing vocals
* Pete Phipps - drums
* David Plews - brass
* Eddie Reader - backing vocals [ [http://www.eddireader.net/albums/eurLIVE.htm#commentary/ contested on devoted Eddie Reader site] ]
* Olle Romo - drums
* Margaret Ryder - backing vocals
* Patrick Seymour - keyboards
* Jimmy 'Z' Zavala - saxophone & harmonica

Charts

Notes