As reported Annie Lennox helped to launch the UNAIDS Agenda for Action on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV in New York yesterday (see original news post here). Here are the first links of press coverage:
Launch of UNAIDS
Conference Video - SING video at the beginning, Annie Lennox talks e.g. from 30:40 min and answers a question from 1:13:41 h
Press Conference Video - Annie Lennox e.g. from 6:27 min, 18:47 min 27:17 … more
As reported Annie Lennox is going to visit the Names Not Numbers symposium taking place at Portmeirion in North Wales from February 26 to 28, 2010 (original news post).
She is going to join leading figures from around the world for what has been described as ‘a very British Davos’ for the second annual Editorial Intelligence symposium. Parts of the programme are going to be filmed live for BBC’s HARDTalk with Stephen Sackur.
The … more
As regular readers will know Annie Lennox posted a blog on 08.02.10 (click here to read) commenting on the proposed plans for a civic square over Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen. Annie's comments were a response to a post from a concerned campaigner in Annie's forum (Click here to read the original post). Annie has called for residents of Aberdeen to get involved in the debate saying,
"Aberdeen is your home … more
Three days ago I posted the story below originally published on AnnieLennox.com and in Annie Lennox blog about a new interview with Annie Lennox regarding the 30th Anniversary of the Brit Awards to be included in yesterday's issue of The Times in the UK. Unfortunately there was no Annie Lennox interview in this issue.
Also the very comprehensive The Times website didn't publish one - all to be found there was an article … more
As reported twice in the past weeks already (see first post here and in the Events Calendar), tomorrow at 8pm (repeated the next day at 7pm) the Canadian tv channel Bravo! is going to honour Dave Stewart with a portrait in the six part series “Innovators In Music”. This a short reminder and another preview - thanks to Original Spin TV here's an official trailer: … more
In the Eurythmics Advent Calendar here at ethrill.net you find an exclusive and extensive interview today with the white blues guitarist and singer Joanne Shaw Taylor whose debut album "White Sugar" is a hit amongst blues fans already.
After I did the interview earlier this year before a concert in Bonn (Germany), various technical problems made it first impossible to transcribe the chat about her childhood, how she met Dave Stewart, the tour with D.U.P … more
The Guardian just released a new interview with Annie Lennox about HIV/Aids, her criticism of the Pope, and how there'll never be a Eurythmics comeback. To read the new interview that comes with a nice (not new) photo here on the Guardian's website.
For all Eurythmics fans who still hoped for a reunion of the duo the following answer by Annie to the question "Any chance of a comback [of Eurythmics]?" might be of … more
From today's new issue of the free US newspaper Metro: Annie Lennox has been an icon since shooting to fame with the Eurythmics two decades ago. The “Greatest White Soul Singer Alive” won a 2004 Academy Award for best original song. But these days, Lennox’s heart belongs less to Billboard charts than to dying children. She campaigns on behalf of African children infected with AIDS. She talked exclusively to Metro.
After more than two … more
Juliette Powell is an author, entrepreneur and integrated media specialist. Her first book: 33 Million People in the Room (Financial Times Press, 2009) builds on her work as co-founder and COO of the Gathering Think Tank Inc., an innovation forum at the intersection of integrated media, business, innovation and technology. Here's a transcript she sent me of an interview I reported about (see original news with videos of the interview here) which she … more