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Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a British singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognised female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".

This book is your ultimate resource for Annie Lennox. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Annie Lennox's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Annie Lennox, (My My) Baby's Gonna Cry, 17 Again (song), 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother), 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, 2011 New Year Honours, 46664 (concerts), 76th Academy Awards, A Christmas Cornucopia, A Thousand Beautiful Things, A Whiter Shade of Pale, Aberdeen, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Al Green, American Music Awards of 2008, Anastacia, Androgyny, Angel (Eurythmics song), Angels from the Realms of Glory, Annie Lennox discography, Apollo 13 (film), Bare (Annie Lennox album), Be Yourself Tonight, Beethoven (I Love to Listen To), Belinda (song), Beth Gibbons, Beth Orton, Blue-eyed soul, Brit Awards, Burma Campaign UK, Call Me What You Like, Christmas in Washington, Cold (Annie Lennox song)…and more pages!

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Date de parution	31 mai 2013
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Articles Annie Lennox (My My) Baby's Gonna Cry 17 Again (song) 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother) 1992 MTV Video Music Awards 2011 New Year Honours 46664 (concerts) 76th Academy Awards A Christmas Cornucopia A Thousand Beautiful Things A Whiter Shade of Pale Aberdeen Aberdeen Maternity Hospital Academy Award for Best Original Song Al Green American Music Awards of 2008 Anastacia Androgyny Angel (Eurythmics song) Angels from the Realms of Glory Annie Lennox discography Apollo 13 (film) Bare (Annie Lennox album) Be Yourself Tonight Beethoven (I Love to Listen To) Belinda (song) Beth Gibbons Beth Orton Blue-eyed soul Brit Awards Burma Campaign UK Call Me What You Like Christmas in Washington Cold (Annie Lennox song)

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Cole Porter Comic Relief Dark Road David A. Stewart David Bowie David Gray (musician) Diamond Jubilee Concert Dido (singer) Diva (Annie Lennox album) Don't Ask Me Why Edward II (film)

Eminem Eurythmics Eurythmics discography Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye Everybody Hurts Full Steam Glen Ballard Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album Greatest Hits (Eurythmics album) Harlaw Academy Herbie Hancock Here Comes the Rain Again Howard Shore Hugh Laurie I've Got a Life I Need a Man (Eurythmics song) I Saved the World Today Idol Gives Back In the Garden (Eurythmics album) Into the West (song) It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) Jackie DeShannon Joss Stone Julia (Eurythmics song) Kelis Little Bird (Annie Lennox song)

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Live (Eurythmics video) Love Is a Stranger Love Song for a Vampire Many Rivers to Cross Martha Wainwright Medusa (Annie Lennox album) Missionary Man (Eurythmics song) Never Gonna Cry Again No More I Love You's Nobel Peace Prize Concert Oxford Brookes University Pattern of My Life Pavement Cracks Peace (Eurythmics album) Peacetour (Eurythmics video) Peet Coombes Pink (singer) Possibilities Precious (Annie Lennox song) Put a Little Love in Your Heart Queen (band) Revenge (Eurythmics album) Revival (Eurythmics song) Right by Your Side Royal Academy of Music Sarah McLachlan Savage (album)

Savage (video) Scrooged Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) Shakira Shame (Eurythmics song) Shining Light Sing (Annie Lennox song) Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves Something So Right (song) Songs of Mass Destruction Sophie Muller

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Step by Step (Annie Lennox song) Stephen Lipson Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (album) Synthpop The Annie Lennox Collection The King and Queen of America The Miracle of Love The Preacher's Wife: Original Soundtrack Album The SING Campaign The Tourists The Walk (Eurythmics song) There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart) This Is the House Thorn in My Side Touch (Eurythmics album) Touch Dance Trevor Horn Ultimate Collection (Eurythmics album) Under Pressure

Universal Child Walking on Broken Glass We Too Are One We Two Are One Too Webby Award When Tomorrow Comes Whitney Houston Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series) Why (Annie Lennox song) Windsong (band) Wonderful (Annie Lennox song) You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart

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Annie Lennox OBE

Annie Lennox performing at the Rally for Human Rights during the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna as part of her SING Campaign.

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Ann Lennox

25 December 1954

Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Pop, pop rock, rock, soul, blue-eyed soul, New Wave, R&B, electronica

Singer-songwriter, activist, humanitarian ambassador

Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar, accordion, harmonium, flute, bass guitar

1971-present

RCA, Arista (1981–2009) Island, Decca (2010–)

The Catch, The Tourists, Eurythmics

[1] www.annielennox.com

Ann"Annie"Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a British singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognised female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She has also been [2] named the "Brits Champion of Champions".

Lennox embarked on a solo career in the 1990s with her debut album,Diva(1992), which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". To date, she has released five solo studio albums and a compilation album,The Annie Lennox Collection(2009). She is the recipient of eight Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest [3] accolade fromBillboard2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for BestMagazine. In Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature filmThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of

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[4] the King. In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV charities in Africa. She also objected to the unauthorised use of the 1999 Eurythmics song "I [5] Saved the World Today" in an election broadcast for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in 2009. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns [3][6] and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012, Lennox performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee [7] Concert in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All [8] [9] Time byRolling Stone. In She2012, Lennox was listed at number 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history" due to her commercial success since the early 1980s. Including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox has sold over 80 million records [] worldwide.

Early life Lennox was born on Christmas Day, 1954, in Summerfield Maternity hospital, Aberdeen. Her father worked at the shipyard, and her mother was a cook until she became a housewife. Lennox was an only child and the family lived in a small two-roomed apartment in a tenement with communal laundry facilities. Despite her family's financial status, Lennox had piano lessons at school from the age of seven years at the cost of a4.00 per term. She was interested in singing and, with plenty of time to herself, passed some of the time by singing along to the popular music of the time, including music by The Beatles. She was an unhappy teenager, partly because of a struggle over boundaries for [] her independence with her overprotective father. She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls, now Harlaw [][10] Academy. In 1964, her early talent was demonstrated when she came in second place in a talent contest at a [11] Butlins holiday camp. She sang the song "Mairi's Wedding". In the 1970s, Lennox won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied the flute and classical music for three years. She lived on a student grant and worked at part-time jobs for extra money. Lennox was unhappy during her time at the Royal Academy partly because she was lonely and shy, and she missed many [] history-of-music lessons. Lennox's flute teacher's final report stated: "Ann has not always been sure of where to direct her efforts, though lately she has been more committed. She is very, very able, however." Two years later, Lennox reported to the Academy: "I have had to work as a waitress, barmaid, and shop assistant to keep me when not in musical work." She also played and sang with a few bands, such as Windsong, during the period of her course. In 2006, the academy [12] made her an honorary Fellow. Lennox also was made a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and [13] Drama that year.

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Music career

1976–1990: Dragon's Playground, The Tourists and Eurythmics

In 1976, Lennox was flautist with a band called Dragon's Playground, [14] leaving before they appeared on TV's New Faces. Between 1977 and 1980, she was the lead singer of The Tourists (initially known as The Catch), a moderately successful British pop band and her first collaboration with Dave Stewart. During the time they were in The Tourists, Stewart and Lennox were involved in a relationship, though this had ended by the time they formed Eurythmics.

Lennox and Stewart's second collaboration, the 1980s synthpop duo Eurythmics, resulted in her most notable fame, as the duo's alto, soul-tinged lead singer. Early in Eurythmics' career, Lennox was [15][16] known for her androgyny, wearing suits and once impersonating Elvis Presley. Eurythmics released a long line of singles in the 1980s, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Love Is A Stranger", "Here Comes the Rain Again", "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves", "Who's That Girl?", "Would I Lie to You?", "There Must Be an Angel Lennox in the mid-1980s (Playing with My Heart)", "Missionary Man", "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart", "Thorn in My Side", "The Miracle of Love" and "Don't Ask Me Why". Though Eurythmics never officially disbanded, Lennox made a fairly clear break from Stewart in 1990. Thereafter, she began a long and equally-successful solo career.

Lennox and Stewart reconvened Eurythmics in the late 1990s with the albumPeace, their first album of new material in ten years. A subsequent concert tour was completed, with profits going to Greenpeace and Amnesty [3] International. Lennox has received eight BRIT Awards, the most of any female [17] artist. Four of the awards were given during her time with Eurythmics, and another was given to the duo for Outstanding [18] Contribution to Music in 1999.

The 1988 single with Al Green, "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (a cover version of Jackie DeShannon's 1969 hit), was recorded for the soundtrack of the movieScrooged. Though it was produced by Dave Stewart, it was credited to Lennox and Green. This one-off singleLennox (far right) and David A. Stewart (left) performing as Eurythmics in 1987. peaked at No. 2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, No. 9 on the US [19][20] Billboard Hot 100 and was a top 40 hit in the UK. Lennox performed the song "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", a Cole Porter song, that same year for a cameo appearance in the Derek Jarman filmEdward II. She then made an appearance with David Bowie and the surviving members of [21] Queen at 1992's Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at London's Wembley Stadium, performing "Under Pressure".

1992–1993:Diva Lennox began working with former Trevor Horn protbgb Stephen Lipson, beginning with her 1992 solo dbbut album,Diva. It was a commercial and critical success, charting No. 1 in the UK, No. 6 in Germany, and No. 23 in [22][23] the US where it went double platinum. Lennox's profile was boosted byDiva's singles, which included "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". "Why" won an MTV Award for Best Female Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music [24][25] Awards, while the video for "Walking on Broken Glass" featured the actors Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich.

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"Little Bird" also formed a double A-side with "Love Song for a Vampire", a soundtrack cut for Francis Ford [26] Coppola's 1992 movieBram Stoker's Dracula. The B-side of her single "Precious" was a self-penned song called [26] "Step by Step", which was later a hit for Whitney Houston for the soundtrack of the filmThe Preacher's Wife. The song "Keep Young and Beautiful" was included on the CD release as a bonus track (the original vinyl album had only ten tracks). The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being [] certified quadruple platinum. It was also a success in the US where it was a top 30 hit and has sold in excess of [22] 2,700,000 copies. In 1993, the album was included inQ magazine's list of the "50 Best Albums of 1992".Rolling Stone(25 June 1992, p. 41) described the album as magazine ."..state-of-the-art soul pop..." and it is included in Rolling Stone's (13 May 1999, p. 56) "Essential Recordings of the 90's" list. The album won Best British Album at [27] the 1993 Brit Awards.

1995–2000:Medusaand return to Eurythmics Although Lennox's profile decreased for a period because of her desire to bring up her two children outside of the media's glare, she continued to record. Her second album,Medusa, was released in March 1995. It consisted solely of cover songs, all originally recorded by male artists including Bob Marley and The Clash. It entered the UK album chart at No. 1 and peaked in the US at number 11, spending 60 weeks on theBillboard 200chart and selling over [22] [][] 2,000,000 to date in the United States. It has achieved double platinum status in both the UK and the US. The album yielded four UK singles: "No More I Love You's" (which entered the UK singles chart at No. 2, Lennox's [20] highest ever solo peak), "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Waiting in Vain" and "Something So Right". The album was [28] nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards of 1996, losing toTurbulent Indigoby Joni Mitchell, however, Lennox won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the single "No [29] More I Love You's". Though Lennox declined to tour for the album, she did perform a large scale one-off concert [30] in New York's Central Park, which was filmed and later released on home video. Lennox also provided an [31] extensive solo vocal performance (without lyrics) for the soundtrack score of the filmApollo 13in 1995. In 1997, Lennox re-recorded the Eurythmics track "Angel" for the Diana, Princess of Wales tribute album, and also recorded the song "Mama" forThe Avengerssoundtrack album. In 1998, following the death of a mutual friend [32] (former Tourists member Peet Coombes), she re-united with Dave Stewart. Following their first performance together in eight years at a record company party, Stewart and Lennox began writing and recording together for the first time since 1989. This resulted in the albumPeace. The title was designed to reflect the duo's ongoing concern with global conflict and world peace. The record was promoted with a concert on the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II, where they played a mixture of old and new songs. "I Saved the World Today" was the lead single, [33] reaching number eleven on the UK singles chart. Another single, released at the beginning of 2000, "17 Again", [34] made the UK top 40, and topped the US dance chart. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade fromBillboardMagazine, with Editor-in-Chief Timothy White describing her as one of "the most [3] original and unforgettably affecting artists in the modern annals of popular music."