“twelve strong, powerful, really emotive songs that people can connect to”
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Annie Lennox
Ann Lennox is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. She appeared in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams " with orange cropped hair and wearing a lounge suit. Subseque…
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Born 25 December 1954 · Q151231
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2026· 10 entries
“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.”
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“Many of my life experiences can be described as unconventional, idiosyncratic and synchronistic—as this event [graduation ceremony] proves to be no exception. By rights, I feel I”
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openPR.com: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Drug Market Report Provides Insights Into Market Evolution And Growth Prospects
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Yahoo News UK: Dramatic funnel cloud arches over the Dee Estuary - Video: Hayley Lennox
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BroadwayWorld: Video: Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker Discuss Thelma & Louise Musical on ITV London
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BroadwayWorld: Video: Amy Lennox and Rachel Tucker Perform 'For a Change' From Thelma & Louise
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Published video “Annie Lennox - Why (Live In Central Park, 1995)”.
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Published video “Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's" (Live in Central Park, 1995)”.
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Published video “Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass (Live in Central Park, 1995)”.
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2025· 5 entries
Published video “Annie Lennox - "Why? - For Gaza" Live - Together For Palestine”.
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The Guardian: Guy Pearce and Annie Lennox join call to end ‘normalised horror’ for children in Gaza
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The Guardian: Annie Lennox and friends review – a euphoric celebration of female solidarity
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“an incredible honour to have such a wonderful building on the Glasgow Caledonian University campus named after me”
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Her 1995 single "No More 'I Love You's'", featured in an episode of American thriller series Good American Family
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2024· 1 entry
Performed at the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song Tribute Concert in Washington, D
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2023· 1 entry
Lennox became the Patron of Dalcroze UK, a charitable organisation that promotes Dalcroze eurhythmics, the approach to music education that inspired the band name, Eurythmics
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2022· 5 entries
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2022).
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The Guardian: Annie Lennox’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!
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Published video “Annie Lennox - Annie Lennox - Why (at Countdown)”.
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Performed at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California for their induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performing "Would I Lie to You
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For their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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2020· 3 entries
Published video “Annie Lennox - Dido’s Lament - London City Voices”.
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Published video “Annie Lennox - Dido's Lament”.
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And the duo were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022
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2019· 4 entries
Published video “Annie Lennox - Parnassius Apollo”.
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Published video “Papilio Machaon”.
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Published video “Annie Lennox - Hesperiidae”.
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Released ep “Lepidoptera”.
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2017· 2 entries
Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor
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The academy awarded her an honorary degree of Doctorate
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2016· 1 entry
Lennox was awarded the Elle Style Awards 'Outstanding Achievement' award, and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society award, the Livingstone Medal, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the fight against AIDS
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2015· 2 entries
Released album “An Evening of Nostalgia With Annie Lennox”.
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Lennox attended, performed at and hosted several charitable events including: the 50th Amnesty International Annual Conference where she was a guest speaker, Elton John and David Furnish's at home Gala in aid of the Elto
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Nostalgia”.
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (2012).
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On 15 September 2012 Lennox married Besser at a private ceremony in London.
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2011).
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Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes"
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2010· 1 entry
Released album “A Christmas Cornucopia”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “The Annie Lennox Collection”.
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Lennox met Mitch Besser, who had started an AIDS charity in Africa
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2008· 2 entries
Lennox backed the principle of an independent Scotland
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Lennox founded The Circle of Women, known as The Circle, a private charitable organisation to network and fund-raise for women's projects around the world
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2007· 3 entries
Released album “The Very Best Of”.
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Released album “Songs of Mass Destruction”.
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And founded a women's empowerment charity called The Circle in 2008
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2006· 2 entries
In response to her humanitarian work, Lennox became patron of the Master's Course in Humanitarian and Development Practice for Oxford Brookes University
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Expressed her anger at how the UK was misled over Iraq's alleged 'weapons of mass destruction'
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2005· 2 entries
Lennox and Stewart collaborated on two new songs for their Eurythmics compilation album, Ultimate Collection, of which "I've Got a Life" was released as a single in October 2005
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The Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022
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2004· 4 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for Into the West (2004).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for Into the West (2004).
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Received the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Lennox won the Academy Award for Best Song for "Into the West" from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which she co-wrote with screenwriter Fran Walsh and composer Howard Shore
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “Bare”.
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Released album “Who's that Girl?”.
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Her album "Songs of Mass Destruction" and her rendition of "Dark Road" were deeply critical of the war
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Lennox released her third solo album, Bare
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2002· 2 entries
Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard
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Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard magazine, with editor-in-chief Timothy White describing her as one of "the most original and unforgettably affecting artists in the modern an
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Die Nixe · The Mermaid”.
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Released album “Live in Central Park”.
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1998· 2 entries
Released album “Best”.
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Following the death of a mutual friend (former Tourists member Peet Coombes), she re-united with Dave Stewart
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1997· 1 entry
Lennox re-recorded the Eurythmics track "Angel" for the Diana, Princess of Wales: Tribute album, and also recorded the song "Mama" for The Avengers soundtrack album
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1995· 4 entries
Released album “Medusa / Live in Central Park”.
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Released album “Medusa”.
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Released album “In-Store Sampler”.
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Released album “Unplugged and more”.
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1994· 2 entries
“We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.”
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“I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.”
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1993· 4 entries
Awarded Echo Pop Award for the Best International Rock/Pop Female Artist (1993).
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Released album “Cold Colder Coldest”.
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Released album “Cold, Colder, Coldest (MTV unplugged)”.
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The album was included in Q magazine's list of the "50 Best Albums of 1992"
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1992· 7 entries
Released album “1992-07-03: Casino Barrière de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland”.
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Released album “MTV Unplugged”.
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Released album “Diva”.
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Career landmark: Montreux Jazz Festival 1992.
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Ahead of the release of the album, Lennox claimed that she debated with herself whether to begin writing a solo album, claiming that she thought of other things she could do but concluded "it all comes back to writing so
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Released album “Cold Primitive”.
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With her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass"
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1990· 1 entry
Lennox recorded a version of Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" for the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue, a benefit for AIDS awareness
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1985· 1 entry
Due to a serious throat infection, Lennox appeared at Live 8 held in Hyde Park, London in 2005
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1984· 1 entry
The Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1987, and the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1999
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1976· 1 entry
Lennox was a flute player with a band called Dragon's Playground, leaving before they appeared on ITV's talent show New Faces
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1971· 1 entry
Lennox began studying on a three-year Music Performance degree course at the Royal Academy of Music in London
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1954· 1 entry
Born 1954-12-25.
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1930· 1 entry
She is the daughter of Dorothy Farquharson (née Ferguson; 1930–2003) and Thomas Allison Lennox (1925–1986).
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