Annie Lennox – The Annie Lennox Collection (2xLP)

The album contains fourteen songs from the past sixteen years, including some of the biggest hits of her solo career from the albums "Diva" (1995), "Medusa" (1995), "Bare" (2003) and "Songs of Mass Destruction" (2007) as well as two new recordings that are exclusive to the album. The timeless songs selected for the compilation are the essence of her always unmistakable soul music, including global hits such as "Why", "Walking On Broken Glass" and the Grammy award-winning "No More 'I Love You's'". "It was simply time to release this 'Collection' this year," explains the Scot. "The songs are simply timeless and have become 'classics' in their own way over the years." Annie Lennox is an incomparable singer, songwriter and live artist who expressed her emotions, joys and sorrows, in songs that deserve to be called "soul music" in every sense of the word. And incidentally, Annie's music became the soundtrack of life for millions of people.

The "Annie Lennox Collection" contains two new songs that were recorded especially for this album: From Keane singer and frontman Tom Chaplin comes "Pattern Of My Life", which already has all the features of a Lennox classic on first listen. The second new song - and lead track - is a cover version of the hit single "Shining Light" by Irish alternative band Ash, which won an "Ivor Novello Award" in the "Best Contemporary Song" category in 2001. Shining Light" was also accompanied by a video clip well worth seeing, in which the charismatic international star played all the musical roles himself.