I Love You Like A Ball And Chain

Album: Be Yourself Tonight (1985)
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  • Largely recorded in Paris, the Be Yourself album featured some innovative production from Dave Stewart. However, at times the Eurythmics producer could be a hard taskmaster.

    "I think the oddest thing was making my mother stamp on the gravel on the roof of a Paris youth club for I Love You Like A Ball And Chain," he recalled to the BBC. "My poor mum. She was stamping away and, every so often, somebody would run up and go, 'A bit more, a bit more.'"

    "She was bright red and exhausted," he added, "but when you hear it on the track, it sounds amazing."

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  • Phil from UsaThe back up singers are the Charles Williams Singers
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