Right By Your Side

Album: Touch (1983)
Charted: 10 29
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Songfacts®:

  • This calypso-tinged track finds Annie Lennox seeking solace in her special guy:

    When depression starts to win
    I need to be right by your side


    Her guy was also her bandmate, Dave Stewart. The couple had a tense relationship that often played out in their songs, but on this one Lennox decided to go a different route, singing a joyful tune without recalling any of the angst. "Everything I've done has been tinged with irony - or a good dollop of melancholia," she told Q magazine when discussing this song.

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  • Anni from Jamaica Anyone know where/which concert this was filmed at?
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