Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
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Personnel

  • Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox
    Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...

     – vocals, keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , synthesisers
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

  • David A. Stewart
    David A. Stewart
    David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , keyboards, synthesisers, programming, backing vocals

Additional personnel

  • Robert Crash - Guitar/ E-Drums/ Synth/ Robotic vocals
  • Green Gartside
    Green Gartside
    Green Gartside , is a British musician, and the frontman of the band Scritti Politti....

     (of Scritti Politti
    Scritti Politti
    Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Although there have been various changes to the line-up, Cardiff-born singer-songwriter Green Gartside was the founding member of the band and the only member to have remained throughout the group's...

    ) – guest vocal duet on "Wrap it Up"
  • Dick Cuthell
    Dick Cuthell
    Dick Cuthell is a British musician and record producer. He plays flugelhorn, cornet, and trumpet, amongst a range of other brass instruments, including tenor horn and valve trombone. Cuthell is best known for his work with The Specials and Rico Rodriguez. He also collaborated with bands such as...

     – trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Adam Williams – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , synthesiser
  • Andy Brown – bass
  • Reynard Falconer – synthesisers
  • John Turnbull – guitar


Note: musician credits are not printed on the album sleeve, however some additional info can be gained from the sleeves of the Touch album and "This is the House" single.

Chart performance

Chart (1983) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart 9
Canadian Albums Chart 6
Dutch Albums Chart 10
French Albums Chart 4
German Albums Chart 6
New Zealand Albums Chart 2
Swiss Albums Chart 8
UK Albums Chart 3
U.S. Billboard 200 15
U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart 36

Certifications

Organization Level Date
BPI – UK Gold 22 March 1983
CRIA – Canada Gold 1 September 1983
CRIA – Canada Platinum 1 December 1983
RIAA – United States Gold 11 November 1983
BPI – UK Platinum 16 January 1984
CRIA – Canada Double Platinum 1 December 1986
IFPI - Germany Gold 1991
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