Artist: Annie Lennox
Genre(s):
Other
Dance: Pop
Rock
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Songs of Mass Destruction
Year: 2007
Tracks: 11
Bare
Year: 2003
Tracks: 11
The Very Best of
Year: 1997
Tracks: 17
No More I Love You's (Maxi-CD)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 3
Medusa
Year: 1995
Tracks: 10
A Whiter Shade Of Pale (Single)
Year: 1995
Tracks: 2
Little Bird
Year: 1992
Tracks: 5
Diva
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Following the disbandment of Eurythmics in 1991, vocaliser Annie Lennox began a solo life history that rivaled Eurythmics' in damage of crossover popularity. Born and raised in Aberdeen, Scotland, Lennox began playing music as shaver, encyclopaedism how to play both the piano and champagne flute. In her late teens, she south Korean won a encyclopaedism to London's Royal Academy of Music, only she dropped out of the school ahead she took her finals. For the future several geezerhood, she worked around London, acting various jobs during the day and tattle at night. In the late '70s, she met guitar player Dave Stewart through a friend. Stewart, world Health Organization had antecedently played with Longdancer, asked Lennox to join a new band he was forming with a songwriter named Peet Coombes. The isthmus was named the Tourists, and they released ternion albums 'tween 1979 and 1980 and scored a number four U.K. hit with a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be with You."
While they were collaborating together in the Tourists, Lennox and Stewart became lovers. Soon, tensions inside the band grew, and by 1980 the copulate had left wing the band to begin Eurythmics. During the early '80s, the slick synth pop of Eurythmics became one of the nearly democratic sounds of new wave, racking up a identification number of hits in both the U.S. and U.K., including "Gratifying Dreams (Are Made of This)," "Honey Is a Stranger," "Who's That Girl," and "Here Comes the Rain Again." Midway through their life history, Eurythmics began pursuing a harder, more aboveboard careen & roll sound.
In 1990, next the sacking of Eurythmics' commercial disappointment We Too Are One, Lennox announced that she was pickings a two-year sabbatical to have a baby. During this time, the group quietly dissolved, Lennox had a baby, and she began working on her first solo album. Diva, her solo debut, arrived in 1992 and showcased a calmer, more than suppurate vocaliser designed to cross over into the grownup contemporary consultation. On the strong point of the singles "Walking on Broken Glass" (number 14) and "Why" (identification number 34), Prima donna sold o'er 2 gazillion copies in the U.S. lonely; the album was as well nominated for trey Grammy Awards.
Lennox delivered her moment solo album, a covers collection entitled Medusa, in 1995. Peaking at number 11, Medusa spawned the hit single "No More I Love You's," and went platinum by the end of 1995. Lennox took some fourth dimension cancelled to raise her child and become more than actively involved with humanist endeavors. A entire ogdoad geezerhood after Medusoid was released, she returned with Bare, 1 of the strongest and most personal albums of her career. After another break, she released Songs of Mass Destruction in September 2007 and made plans to embark on an extended North American tour, starting in October.
