1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)

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Stewart Touch Dance 1984 Be Yourself Tonight 1985 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) soundtrack Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) 22 October 1984 Julia 7 January 1985https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1985/Music-Week-1985-01-05.pdf Music Week AllMusic 2 5Ruhlmann William https://www.allmusic.com/album/1984-for-the-love-of-big-brother-mw0000531128 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) – Eurythmics AllMusic 28 May 2013 Smash Hits 9/10Cranna Ian https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-22-november-5-december-1984/page/n23/ Albums: Eurythmics – 1984 (Virgin) Smash Hits Peterborough EMAP National Publications, Ltd. 6 24 25 22 November – 5 December 1984 0260-3004 22 December 2023 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) is a soundtrack album by the British pop duo Eurythmics. Released on 12 November 1984 by Virgin Records, it was the duo's fourth album overall and contains music recorded by Eurythmics for the film Nineteen Eighty-Four, based on George Orwell's dystopian novel of the same name. Virgin Films produced the film for release in its namesake year, and commissioned Eurythmics to compose a soundtrack. Background Recording Richard Branson approached Eurythmics about recording a soundtrack for the film Nineteen Eighty-Four. The duo worked on the album in Nassau, The Bahamas after the conclusion of a US tour. Dave Stewart commented that they were "very excited" about working on the soundtrack for Nineteen Eighty-Four and found the premise of the storyline more compelling than some of the other movie scores that they were asked to work on. The band had been asked to compose other movie scores in the past, which they opted not to pursue.Pepe Barbara August 1985 This is 1985, OK? https://www.creem.com/archive/article/1985/08/01/eurythmics-this-is-1985-ok 8 July 2025 Creem 37–38 Stewart and Annie Lennox worked purely as a duo for these recordings, with no contributions from other musicians. The music continued in the predominantly electronic style that Eurythmics had found great success with since 1983, but was far more experimental with several tracks being instrumentals and some (most notably the hit single "Sexcrime") employing the use of sampling. Stewart himself described some tracks as "Kraftwerk meets African tribal meets Booker T. & the M.G.'s."March 2026 Unknown to the group, Michael Radford, the film's director, had commissioned his own orchestral score and was not fond of Eurythmics' work. Two versions of the film were released, one featuring Eurythmics' music, and the "director's cut", which replaced most of Eurythmics' music by the orchestral score. When accepting an award for the film, Radford publicly complained of having Eurythmics' music "foisted" on him. Eurythmics issued a statement saying that they had accepted Virgin's commission in good faith, and would never have done so if they had known that it was not being done with the director's approval.6 December 1984 1984 Soundtrack: Big Brother https://eurythmics-ultimate.com/publications/1984-12-06-eurythmics-smash-hits-from-the-uk-id-0328/#foobox-1/3/1984-12-06-Eurythmics-UK-Smash-Hits-04.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 Smash Hits 4 9 December 2024 Ultimate Eurythmics Archives Musical concept Most of the tracks are instrumental, with song titles and lyrics being derived from Orwell's text. For instance, "I Did It Just The Same" is taken from a passage in the book where the protagonist, Winston Smith, relates how he committed "sexcrime" with a prostitute—initially deceived by her makeup, when he got close to her, he realised she was "about fifty—but I did it just the same". "Julia" was the name of the secondary protagonist and Winston's lover. "Sexcrime" and "Doubleplusgood" are examples of Newspeak, the government-imposed revision of the English language in Orwell's story. The track "Doubleplusgood" features a female announcer—the voice of the omnipresent Telescreen in the movie—reading out various memos which Winston had received at his job in the Ministry of Truth, where his role was to amend past and present newspaper articles so that they conformed to current Party dogma. The "Ministry of Love" was the government police and torture department, and included "Room 101", a room which contained "the worst thing in the world"—i.e. where each torture victim would be confronted with their own worst nightmare. Release The album was released by Virgin Records in the UK and RCA Records in the US. Two singles were released from the album, "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)" and "Julia". The first was a top-10 hit in most territories, while the largely a capella track "Julia" achieved little commercial success and broke the duo's run of six consecutive top-10 singles in the UK when it peaked at number 44. Promotional videos were produced for both singles. One US LP release had an additional sticker that stated "Censored by the thought police".Allen Eric Eurythmics: '1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)' https://vocal.media/beat/eurythmics-1984-for-the-love-of-big-brother 9 December 2024 Beat en Track listing Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart. The album credits have the order flipped on tracks 2, 4, 6 and 8, which are listed as "Stewart/Lennox" I Did It Just the Same 3:28 Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) 3:58 For the Love of Big Brother 5:05 Winston's Diary 1:22 Greetings from a Dead Man 6:13 Julia 6:40 Doubleplusgood 4:40 Ministry of Love 3:47 Room 101 3:50 Personnel Credits adapted from the liner notes of 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother).1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) liner notes Eurythmics Virgin Records 1984 V1984 David A. Stewart – production, mixing Eric "ET" Thorngren – engineering, mixing Sean Burrows – engineering assistance Steven Stanley – early recording engineering (tracks 2, 3) Sarah Quill – front cover photo Howard Brown – 1984 logo Mighty – sleeve Charts Weekly charts + Weekly chart performance for 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) Chart (1985) Peakposition Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)Kent David David Kent (historian) Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 illustrated St Ives, N.S.W. Australian Chart Book 1993 105 0-646-11917-6 22Canada RPM 33 464 7 January 2021 trueNetherlands 38 Eurythmics 1984 - For the Love of Big Brother true 7 January 2021 European Albums (Music & Media)https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Music/Archive-Music-Media-IDX/IDX/80s/85/M&M-1985-02-04-OCR-Page-0006.pdf European Top 100 Albums Eurotipsheet 2 5 4 February 1985 14 29800226 World Radio History 12Germany 23 210 Eurythmics 1984 - For the Love of Big Brother true 7 January 2021New Zealand 21 Eurythmics 1984 - For the Love of Big Brother true 7 January 2021Sweden 6 Eurythmics 1984 - For the Love of Big Brother true 7 January 2021Switzerland 18 Eurythmics 1984 - For the Love of Big Brother true 7 January 2021UK2 23 19850127 true 7 January 2021Billboard200 93 Soundtrack true 7 January 2021 Year-end charts + Year-end chart performance for 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) Chart (1984) Position UK Albums (Gallup)https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-UK/Music/Archive-Music-Week-IDX/IDX/1985/Music-Week-1985-01-26-I-IDX-62.pdf Top 100 Albums (January 3–December 29, 1984) Music Week 26 January 1985 42 0265-1548 World Radio History 100 Certifications Certifications for 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) Canada Eurythmics 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) Gold album 1984 1985 14 July 2022 United Kingdom Eurythmics 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) Gold album 1984 1984 79-73-2 17 December 1984 7 January 2021 yes References Category:1984 soundtrack albums Category:Albums produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) Category:Eurythmics soundtracks Category:Music based on Nineteen Eighty-Four Category:Science fiction film soundtracks Category:Virgin Records soundtracks