Meanwhile, there was talk of blood-curdling rows between the pair, who would go weeks without talking to each other.
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In an attempt to cool down, he rammed a champagne bucket full of ice on it, which became stuck fast. Once, he was admitted to hospital in Dumfries after he thought his head was swelling up.
He later admitted that at the height of his drug-taking he had LSD every day for a year In the late 1970s Stewart was addicted to cocaine and amphetamines. He also became convinced that extra-terrestrials had invaded parts of his body, making him ill. In the early Nineties, Stewart admitted experiencing ‘Paradise Syndrome’ - a psychological condition where sufferers become severely depressed because achieving great wealth and fame leaves them feeling there is nothing left to strive for. The pair earned £30 million each with hits such as Who’s That Girl?, There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) and Thorn in My Side.īut with success came more angst. Lennox became an instant sex symbol and The Eurythmics sold 75 million records worldwide. Their first album, In The Garden, flopped, but in 1983, Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) went platinum in Britain and gold in America. Nonetheless, they got back together and went on to form The Eurythmics the following year. Her four-year relationship with Stewart also fell victim to her breakdown and the pressures of working together. I was devastated by the traumas and dramas.’ ‘It was sheer hell and I never want to go through anything like that again. You get such a rock-bottom feeling that either you might as well cut your own throat or you start thinking about your own self-preservation. Later she said: ‘I would get palpitations and come out in cold sweats. She suffered panic attacks and admitted having suicidal thoughts. The stress sent Lennox into a trough of depression and anxiety.
But the group broke up acrimoniously a year later, leaving the couple having to repay £35,000 to their record company.Ĭolin Firth (left) and Ruby Wax (right) were both invited to Lennox's wedding but Stewart was not ‘It was touch and go whether he would pull through.’Īnnie nursed him back to health and off drugs, and they formed The Tourists, getting a top-ten hit in 1979. ‘Dave, Annie and I were in a London restaurant and all of a sudden he got short of breath and had to be rushed to hospital,’ says Gold. He later admitted that at the height of his drug-taking he had LSD every day for a year.ĭesperately thin and ill, he collapsed from a punctured lung in 1977. My children thought he’d just landed!’Īt that time, Stewart was already addicted to cocaine and amphetamines. He used to come to my house wearing a space helmet. ‘My office was in Covent Garden and I had to lend Annie 10p to get back home because she didn’t have the money. Rob Gold, their first producer, told me: ‘When I met them, they were living in this little room in Crouch End in North London. He and Lennox immediately began an intense affair and formed a band called The Catch. But Lennox, who was brought up in a two-room tenement, sharing an outside lavatory with five other families, felt out of place among her well-off fellow students and quit before her finals.Īccording to legend, the eccentric Sunderland-born Stewart, who had run away to London at 16, walked into the restaurant where she worked, wearing a fur coat, spotted her and asked her to marry him.Īt 24, he was already married - a brief union to a nurse.Īnnie Lennox with her partner Dr Mitch Besser. She had moved from Aberdeen to study the flute at the Royal College of Music. They met in 1976, when Lennox was a waitress in Hampstead, North-West London. Despite the troubled relationship, there remains a special connection between them, which friends believe they have never really resolved. In the more than 30 years since they stopped being lovers, it’s been blamed for the break-up of two of Lennox’s marriages and their bouts of depression. Their most recent fall-out is the latest twist in the fascinating tale of love and obsession that is at the heart of the relationship between pop’s most oddball duo. To do so, it seems, she has vowed to keep Stewart, also married three times, at arm’s length. Annie’s head is in a completely different space now and it’s not like it was. The man who discovered them, Rob Gold, a former head of Virgin Music, said: ‘Their relationship became almost too much and got claustrophobic. Annie Lennox with Dave Stewart during a performance at the 23rd Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards in Beverly Hills, California
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