The Tourists (1977 - 1980) were a moderately successful British pop band, but are better known for two of their members (Annie Lennox & David A. Stewart) who went on to achieve superstardom as Eurythmics. Formation The band formed around a nucleus of two musicians from Sunderland in north-east England, Peet Coombes and Stewart. Coombes was a guitarist singer-songwriter with a folky style. As a teenager, guitarist Stewart had been a member of folk band Longdancer, who were signed to Elton John's Rocket Records label. The two moved to London and encountered Scottish singer Annie Lennox, who had dropped out of her course at the Royal Academy of Music, where she had been studying flute and keyboards to pursue her ambitions in pop music. Lennox & Stewart quickly became lovers. The three of them initially called themselves The Catch, and released a single Borderline under this moniker in 1977 on Logo R