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Annie Lennox‘s career spans nearly 50 years, and a new book will looks back at her decades as a force in music and culture. Rather than a traditional memoir, Annie Lennox: Retrospective is a “visual memoir,” with dozens of photos and images from her time in Eurythmics and as a solo artist. The book, from publisher Rizzoli, is available to buy starting today.
Surprisingly, this is Lennox’s first, and according to Rizzoli, only official book. The career-spanning retrospective highlights Lennox’s unique sense of style and her performances, including her distinctive androgynous look. The hardcover coffee table book chronicles her life and career in chronological order, with sections divided by decade. It’s available for $65 from retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.
Annie Lennox: Retrospective
According to the publisher, “Lennox has been filmed and photographed by all the great image-makers of our time, from Richard Avedon and Paolo Roversi to Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth. With Polaroids from her personal archives alongside iconic portraits, music video stills, and record covers, Annie Lennox: Retrospective collates more than two hundred images to create an illustrated memoir of a creative’s life, both in and out of the spotlight.”
Before Eurythmics, Lennox and Dave Stewart were members of rock band The Tourists. After they split up in 1980, the duo founded Eurythmics, releasing eight studio albums over the course of 18 years. Their final album was 1999’s Peace. Lennox released six solo studio albums, with the most recent being 2014’s Nostalgia.
Annie Lennox was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside Eurythmics bandmate Dave Stewart in 2022. The two reflected on the occasion and their career, with Lennox telling Rolling Stone, “We were just ahead of the curve in so many ways. We were visionary. … I don’t mean that to sound like, ‘We were visionaries.’ But when I look back at what we were doing, it was sometimes out of sync with what was happening.”