A Christmas Cornucopia

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In September 2012 Lennox featured in Series 9 of the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, in which she discovered that her great-great-grandmother Jessie Fraser worked at the Broadford Flax Mill in Aberdeen. Her maternal grandmother, Dora Paton, was a dairy maid at the Balmoral Royal Estate and her maternal grandfather, William Ferguson, was a gamekeeper also at Balmoral. [124]

a b Whitburn, Joel (2009). Top Pop Singles & Albums (12thed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 978-0-89820-180-2. A Christmas Cornucopia is the fifth solo studio album, and the first Christmas album, by Scottish singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, released in November 2010. It was Lennox's first album after signing to the Universal Music Group ( Island Records in the UK, Decca in the US and Canada) following her departure from Sony BMG, which had been her label for almost 30 years. Ghosts in My Machine opens with a piano riff that recalls the Velvelettes’ He Was Really Saying Somethin’, but the song that follows couldn’t be further from the breezy elation of that Motown classic. It’s weary and despondent, its mood amplified by Lennox’s voice: on top of everything else, she can convincingly wail the blues. 21 Eurythmics – Heaven (1987) Lennox was a signatory to the "No war on Iraq" campaign started in 2003, [81] her album "Songs of Mass Destruction" and her rendition of "Dark Road" were deeply critical of the war. In conversation with Melvyn Bragg in 2006, she expressed her anger at how the UK was misled over Iraq's alleged 'weapons of mass destruction'. [18] Eurythmics’ debut album In the Garden was the sound of a duo working out who they were, but there are gems among the musical dead ends: the fantastic All the Young (People of Today) dealt in eerily blank-eyed vocals and atmospheric electronic pop, a sound they would pursue on their next two albums. 24 Eurythmics – Right by Your Side (1983)Culture (7 October 2011). "Annie Lennox: career timeline". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK . Retrieved 26 March 2012. Lennox and Dave Stewart – who together made up hugely successful 80s pop duo Eurythmics – have staged a handful of one-off reunions for charitable causes, including last year at Sting’s Rainforest Foundation Fund benefit concert. But a full-blown reunion is off the cards, she explains. Moser, Margalet (31 December 2010). "Music Review: Songs of Mass Destruction – Annie Lennox". Austin Chronicle . Retrieved 15 July 2013. All proceeds earned from Lennox’s original composition on the album, “Universal Child”, will be paid to The Annie Lennox Foundation. The Annie Lennox Foundation raises money for various charitable projects, primarily those supporting and educating women and children in Africa and people with HIV/Hepatitis C in Scotland. The winter of 2020 has been unprecedented,” she says over video call. “People have been in tremendous pain. There’s loss, there’s grief, there’s fear, there’s anxiety, there’s instability, so people have experienced this at all sorts of different levels.

Annie Lennox was born on Christmas Day 1954 in Aberdeen, Scotland. She is the daughter of Dorothy Farquharson (née Ferguson; 1930–2003) and Thomas Allison Lennox (1925–1986). [16] [17] Dave Stewart: 'Annie Lennox didn't even invite me to her wedding' ". The Independent. 25 July 2013 . Retrieved 6 January 2023. I need to know how I can make the decisions for myself and do my own thing. It’s just growth, it’s just evolution. So we went through all this stuff and then we just went ‘No.’ And people still want us to be that thing. And it’s good we do occasionally do something.We come to the end of our time and, when her PR man enters, she repeats the comment that, she thinks, will be the one that stands out. "I would have been a fantastic man," she tells him and laughs out loud again.

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sourcesin this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Under Pressure – The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert". Ultimatequeen.co.uk . Retrieved 27 September 2014. Main article: Songs of Mass Destruction After releasing " Sing" with 23 other invited singers, Lennox launched the Sing campaign in 2007 a b " "Annie Lennox: Diva singing through the darkness." 20 September 2007". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007 . Retrieved 27 September 2014.