Annie Lennox Biography

Annie entered the Royal Music Academy, in which she stopped training a few weeks before the issuance of a diploma. She began to work on a car wash until a friend introduced her to David Stuart, who became Annie's close friend. For some time they maintained a romantic relationship, but then, when Lennox and Stewart broke up, they formed The Tourists group.

This project did not achieve much commercial success; at the same time, critics appreciated the debut work of young musicians. Eurythmics was formed in the year, which positioned itself as a duet. Now Annie Lennox and David Stewart clearly held the border among themselves - regular participants in the team - and third -party musicians. In the year, the first album of the duet was released - in the Garden, which demonstrated a bizarre mixture of electrical sex, melancholic texts and phenomena in the style of the German group Kraftwerk.

The unconvincing sales of the album were reflected in the musicians: they experienced a difficult depressive period-David was hospitalized due to problems with light mental unrest on the basis of mental unrest, and Annie survived a nervous breakdown. Success came to the British duet in the year with the album "Sweet Dreams". The single of the same name conquered Europe and the United States: an extremely entertaining musical series was supplemented by a bright video clip.

Annie appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, on the wave of interest in the single group “Love is A Stranger” was reprinted. Then the bright style of the group was finally formed: Annie appeared in public in men's costumes, the live performances of the team turned into an enchanting show. In subsequent years, the Eurythmics duet became one of the symbols of the era, having recorded dozens of songs that became cult in Europe and the USA.

In the year, Annie released her first solo album - Diva. The album was warmly met by critics, its sales volume surpassed all expectations. After the success of Diva, Annie received a number of prestigious musical awards, and Francis Ford Coppol invited her to write a song to the Dracula film. The Bare album, was marked by the vivid design decision of Lennox: she stated that she wanted to show herself as natural as possible, so she deliberately abandoned cosmetics, makeup and other traditional attributes of the beauty industry.

A photograph of a forty -year -old woman who did not hesitate to be real was posted on the cover of the disk. For this song, Lennox and Shor were awarded the Oscar for the best song for the film. At the end of the year, Annie Lennox became an officer of the Order of the British Empire. Lennox received the order for charitable activities, in particular for the dissemination of AIDS information in Africa.

The note was prepared by Daria Denisova.