Something Had To Give, and It Couldn't Be My Daughters

This is an extract from a multi-part article on Annie Lennox. Only one part of this article has been reproduced because of a reference to Jimmy Devlin.

ANNIE LAID BARE: Part three of our superb series

Donna White

THE radio executive stared in amazement at the huge frozen bird on his desk.

A few weeks earlier he'd been given Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by a record plugger but had sneered: "It's no hit - it's a turkey."

Now beside the bird lay a note saying: "This is a turkey. The song is a hit!"

It was 1983 ... and after seven years of hard slog Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart had finally made it.

The man who made the Capital Radio boss eat his words was Edinburgh-born Jimmy Devlin, who was then promotions manager with RCA.

Jimmy, who was to become managing director of Polydor, said: "The Eurythmics had such energy and drive.

"Annie was a female Freddie Mercury. Her stage presence was tremendous.

"Dave was a real ideas man. He could sit in a pub and sketch the plan for a brilliant pop video on a fag packet.

"He almost got me fired once when he came up with a wacky idea to smuggle a cow into RCA's boardroom."

Source: http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/

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