Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin — Music Videos

This artist credit brings together the British duo Eurythmics—Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart—and American soul singer Aretha Franklin. It identifies their collaboration rather than a separate permanent band.

“Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves,” released in 1985, appears in the musical worlds of Eurythmics’ Be Yourself Tonight and Franklin’s Who’s Zoomin’ Who?. The recording places Lennox’s and Franklin’s very different voices inside a celebratory arrangement that connects pop, soul, and gospel.

The exchange between the singers is the performance’s main source of energy. Listen for the answering phrases and the way a repeated refrain becomes a shared statement. The collaboration offers a distinctive point of contact between two established musical identities without erasing the character of either.