Album · Eurythmics
Revenge by Eurythmics
Revenge is an album by Eurythmics, released in 1986. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 36 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Missionary Man”, on 24 lists with a best position of #22.
Revenge, Eurythmics' fifth album, landed on RCA on 30 June 1986 in Britain, with America getting it on 14 July. Following the lead of Be Yourself Tonight the year before, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart leaned even further into sounding like a proper rock band, and Stewart, producing, gave them the guitars and the thump to back it up.
"Missionary Man" is the proof, a bluesy, stomping number with Lennox's voice cutting through like a sermon, and it won the duo the 1987 Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. "Thorn in My Side" brought the hooks. The album threw off four singles and sold well, Stewart took home the Brit Award for British Producer of the Year, and the world tour that followed yielded the home video Eurythmics Live, filmed in Australia in 1987.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Revenge on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Missionary Man | 24 | #22 | – | 1986–2021 | |
| 2 | Thorn In My Side | 12 | #62 | – | 1986–2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.