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"Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory"
35 years ago today Eurythmics released third studio album "Touch"
* Touch became the duo's first number-one album on the UK Albums Chart, and also reached the top 10 of the US Billboard 200.
* By the time Touch was released, Eurythmics had achieved international success with their commercially successful single "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and their album of the same name. Preceded by the single "Who's That Girl?", Touch was recorded and mixed in about three weeks at Eurythmics' own London studio facility, The Church.
* Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something at which he excels. He said: "'Here Comes the Rain Again' is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I'm playing a b-minor, but then I change it to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A minor) in, and so it kind of feels like that minor is suspended, or major. So it's kind of a weird course. And of course that starts the whole song, and the whole song was about that undecided thing, like here comes depression, or here comes that downward spiral. But then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers do.' It's the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and bloodred just before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."
* "Right by Your Side" was something of a departure from previous Eurythmics songs, and is an uptempo love song which features a calypso music instrumental backdrop, complete with synthesized steel drum and marimba sounds and a horn section.
* The music video for "Who's That Girl?" features Lennox in the role of a suspicious woman demanding to know with whom her lover has been seen associating. The video became a heavily played clip on MTV, and further showcased Lennox's gender-bending image.
* In 2012, the album was ranked number 492 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
* It had originally appeared at number 500 on the 2003 version of the list. Slant Magazine placed the album at number 47 on its list of the "Best Albums of the 1980s".
