Julia: the forgotten Eurythmics single

At a time when Eurythmics were in their imperial phase - where nothing could go wrong and hit followed hit - the wheel buckled, slightly. The single Julia, a minimalistic and gorgeous ballad was only released in the UK and Ireland (reaching 44 and 17 respectively) as part of the 1984 'soundtrack' and remains their least successful single to date. But that's no reason to leave it off every compilation bar the Boxed CD version and have the ignomony of being the only single NOT on the iTunes version...

The 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) album was jinxed anyway. The director of the movie, Micheal Radford claimed Eurythmics were "foisted" on him by Virgin, the band's label and the film's backers. Annie and Dave said they would never have got involved in the first place had they known this. It's a pity, because the album, despite the massive hit Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty Four), was overlooked and much maligned - in the US it was virtually ignored because of prudish radio stations refusing to play a song entitled Sexcrime. Coming between the career highs of Touch and Be Yourself Tonight, this could have been an equally commercial and creative success. Thankfully the whole album is easily available everywhere.

I saw the Jane Fonda/Vanessa Redgrave wartime weepie Julia once on TV and instantly thought the song would connect more with this movie than 1984.

Julia - Eurythmics (zShare)