With his unkempt hair, generally scruffy appearance, and laid-back air, Dave Stewart (b.1952) and Annie Lennox (b. 1954) (a slim, boyish-looking girl who could pass for a high-fashion model and possessed an absolutely electric persona on stage) outwardly seemed the prototypical odd couple - so much that for a while after the Eurythmics attained star status, most reporters concentrated on Lennox's animated vocal stylings and relegated Stewart to a supposed backup role. But an analysis of their work disclosed soon enough that it was a true partnership and Stewart's contributions as a writer, musical director, and instrumentalist almost perfectly complemented Annie's remarkable talents.
For a time, the two artists also had a romantic partnership, but this broke up before the birth of the Eurythmics. Stewart told Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times (August 2, 1986): "Most couples get famous and then break up. But we broke up and then got famous. Our first reaction was that it was impossible - to break up and still make music together. But the experience made us stronger. We had this goal - and we were determined not to let anything get in its way".
Lennox commented to Hilburn: "I met Dave when I was 22, 23. By the time the Eurythmics started, I was about 26, 27 and I think I needed to find myself. I had lived through a lot of other people and through Dave, and I wanted to sort of break away from that. But I knew creatively I didn't want to work with anybody else except Dave. So there was this strange tension - the pain of the breakup and the excitement of working together on the music. In some ways, that tension has never really gone away. There is always something that brings an edge to what we do."
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