Annie Lennox Releases Her First-Ever Retrospective On Sale February 10, 2009

Two New Songs And Deluxe CD/DVD Edition Available Exclusively With This Collection

Performing Live On The American Music Awards November 23, 2008


Last update: 3:30 p.m. EST Nov. 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Nov 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Annie Lennox Collection paints a vivid portrait in song of the most successful female British artist in pop music history. Available February, 10, 2009 from Arista Records, this 14-song retrospective brings together the acclaimed artist's finest solo work on a single disc for the first time, and includes a pair of new songs available exclusively with this release.

This year the American Music Awards will present Annie Lennox with a special Award of Merit given to some of the industry's most influential artists. Previous honorees include Prince, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond and Gloria Estefan. During the show, Lennox will also give a special performance which will be her first since having back surgery in August, 2008. The show airs live from the Nokia Theatre in L.A. on Sunday, November 23 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on ABC.

Spanning 15 years, The Annie Lennox Collection also available in a Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes hits from her four top-selling solo albums Diva (1992), Medusa (1995), Bare (2003) and last year's highly praised Songs of Mass Destruction. The timeless music selected for this collection uniquely reflects the essence of the singer's instantly recognizable brand of soul music on tracks like "Why," "Walking on Broken Glass" and "No More 'I Love You's'" -- a song that earned Lennox one of her four Grammys.
"It seems like the time has come to release the Collection this year," Lennox says of her first best-of set. "I'm very proud of these songs. They are timeless and have become 'classics' in their own right."

The retrospective also includes two new songs that Lennox recorded specially for this collection. The first, "Pattern of My Life," was written by Tom Chaplin of Keane. The second is a cover of "Shining Light," a song originally recorded by Ash in 2001. "I first discovered this song by Ash about six years ago, and I simply couldn't stop listening to it. It's so exultant that it virtually shimmers," Lennox says.
Among the many highlights on The Annie Lennox Collection is "Sing," a song that references The SING Campaign, a humanitarian organization Lennox founded to raise awareness and support for the AIDS/HIV pandemic in Africa. "We're still in the early stages, but this is a lifelong commitment on my part," Lennox says. "I'm coming out from behind my singing voice to express myself in broader terms and help give a voice to those who don't have the same opportunities as I do."

A dynamic activist, Lennox recently received the Red Cross Services to Humanity Award, the YouthAIDS outstanding achievement award, was named the 2008 Glamour Inspirational Woman of the Year and sang for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration this summer in London.

In her 26-year career, both as a member of the groundbreaking Eurythmics and as a solo artist, Lennox has amassed sales of more than 78 million albums worldwide. Her towering achievements also include 34 hit singles, four Grammy Awards, 11 Brit Awards and five Ivor Novello Awards. The superstar has also won an Academy Award and Golden Globe.
THE ANNIE LENNOX COLLECTION
Track Listing

1. Little Bird"
2. Walking on Broken Glass"
3. Why"
4. No More I Love You's"
5. Precious"
6. A Whiter Shade of Pale"
7. A Thousand Beautiful Things"
8. Sing"
9. Pavement Cracks"
10. Love Song for a Vampire"
11. Cold"
12. Dark Road"
13. Pattern of My Life"
14. Shining Light"


SOURCE Arista Records
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[Edited 12/6/08 7:19am]

it's got half the diva album on it!

got a promo of this with the 12 songs about a month back, it'll be cool to hear the 2 new tracks though, and the dvd should be cool, closing out her contract with the label

im glad she is coming out with this. I still cant get over that AMA performance
just beautiful.

do we know what's on the DVD yet? will it be the videos for the singles?

also, i'm very interested to see what she does next after closing out her contract.

I'm missing some songs here...

Where is Waiting in vain??

I hate GH compilations!!!

Well, I guess there are too many great songs for a 1-cd compilation....

Anxiety said:

I have all these songs (except for the 2 new cuts), I'm more excited for the DVD collection of her music videos. I hear the videos may have songs not on the CD portion.
[Edited 12/6/08 9:26am]

Anxiety said:

I'm afraid she might be one of the artists we will lose from the industry, after seeing that video where she was talking about how if no one pays for her recordings, she has a very expensive hobby.

Is this realy necessary? Wait, I think her label dropped her...so I guess they are milking the cow. If they somehow include the Little Bird video, I'll pick it up for Casey, but other than that...meh. I am just not a fan of her solo work and have ab ad experience with Why and No more I love you's.

I remember when in the eighties, she set the trend for European women with her platnium blonde short cropped hair and red lipstick. I used to see that look just about all over the place.

Nick715 said:

Co-sign

The fact that it seems to have stuff exclusively from her album's is a jip! She had two big soundtrack songs.