“Shame” by Eurythmics

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart wrote "Shame" for Savage, the sixth Eurythmics album, with Stewart producing, and in Britain it went out as the album's second single late in 1987; it was never issued in the United States. It's a synth-pop ballad with a sour aftertaste, full of regret and open disdain for the excess and shallowness of the nightclub, bar and party crowd, and the lyric name-checks the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and nods to "All You Need Is Love" and "We Love You".

Fred Defaye recorded and mixed it, with Manu Guiot on additional recording and Claude Pons assisting on the mix. At home it hung around the singles chart for seven weeks without cracking the Top 40, stalling at 41, the duo's first such miss since "Julia" in 1985. Spain liked it better and made it an airplay hit.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.