Peace (Eurythmics album)
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| Studio album by Eurythmics | ||||
| Released | 18 October 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock, adult contemporary | |||
| Length | 48:59 | |||
| Label | RCA | |||
| Producer | Eurythmics, Andy Wright | |||
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Peace is the ninth and final studio album by the British band Eurythmics, released in October 1999. It was the band's first album of new material in ten years, following 1989's We Too Are One.
Following their first performance together in eight years at a record company party in 1998, David A. Stewart and Annie Lennox began writing and recording together for the first time since 1989. The title was designed to reflect the duo's ongoing concern with global conflict and world peace. The record was promoted with a concert on the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II, where they played a mixture of old and new songs. A 24-date world tour (entitled the "Peacetour") followed soon after, with all profits donated to Amnesty International and Greenpeace. The final show of the tour, on 6 December 1999 at the London Docklands Arena, was filmed and released on video and DVD.
"I Saved the World Today" was the lead single from the album, reaching number eleven on the UK singles chart (their highest charting hit since 1986). Another single, "17 Again", was released in January 2000. It reached the UK Top 30 and topped the US dance chart.
Critics were generally impressed with the record, although NME commented that it "lacked the power" of their previous releases. Q Magazine claimed that the release of the album "quietly acknowledged that their solo careers had failed", despite the fact that both of Annie Lennox's solo albums reached number one in the UK charts, with Diva going four times platinum in the UK and three times platinum in the US (and Q Magazine, themselves placing it in their top 50 albums of 1992) and Medusa going double-platinum in both countries, respectively.
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