Annie Lennox - LA, CA - Nostalgia Listening Event at Hollywood Forever Cemetery 8/12/14

www.annielennox.com
One of the most successful and talented artists in pop music history is back - and back like you’ve never heard her before.
On October 21st (US)/ October 27th (Rest Of World) 2014, Annie Lennox releases her seventh solo album. Nostalgia is a collection of the iconic singer’s impassioned takes on standards primarily from the 1930s and 1940s, many of them popularized by the likes of Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Jo Stafford and Louis Armstrong.
Nostalgia is the result of hours Lennox spent perusing vintage recordings and video performances of songs from the Great American Songbook, particularly those rooted in the blues. “I was just curious,” says the songwriter and singer of Summertime, I Put a Spell On You and Strange Fruit and other, less-widely known songs such Mood Indigo andSeptember in the Rain, “I thought, ‘I wonder what my voice would be like. Would these songs suit my voice?’ It was like a little challenge. I just sort of got to know them, became friends with them really and had a great deal of joy in the process.”
The music on the album was mostly played by Annie alongside her long-time collaborator and co-producer, Mike Stevens and was recorded in his West London studio. Finding Lennox at her most soulful, Nostalgia brings levels of depth and warmth to songs that primarily originated from the civil-rights era.
Nostalgia will be released by Island Records in the UK and internationally, and by Blue Note Recordings in the US.
(Nostalgia vinyl edition will be available from September 30th in the US and worldwide from 27th October)
Nostalgia Track Listing
Memphis in June
Georgia on my Mind
I Put a Spell on You
Summertime
I Cover the Waterfront
Strange Fruit
God Bless the Child
You Belong to Me
September in the Rain
I Can Dream, Can’t I?
The Nearness of You
Mood Indigo

[@trishasword9560]

Lord woman, you just made my night with that Grammy's performance!!! WOW!!!

[@revlogen4466]

OMG are you kidding? Seriously I would buy Annie singing the phone book. I so look forward to hearing her renditions of these standards because I know she's put her heart and soul into it just like she does everything. Would order this second if it was available. Thank you Annie for sharing yourself so generously with us. love love love

[@jimmystinky7775]

That girl was a total DISGRACE and ONLY came over to defend her precious Beyoncé and idiotic Kanye West! That poor stupid girl wouldn't know REAL music,REAL talent and ART if it bit her in the ass! What an IGNORANT stupid girl, gives you a sense as to why music by THIS generation is pretty worthless. Beyoncé is all about retarded songs,no talent and all looks. Garbage music for a loser generation

[@Johbirand]

The most beatiful women in pop-history, and with the most powerful and most beatiful voice i know. Love her for always

[@ternitamas]

She looks astonishing as always! Such an inspiring artist! Love you Annie!

[@4Peace4Love4Joy]

This woman is an amazing musical artist and more importantly she is a true humanitarian. I love Annie Lennox. Hopefully there's a new CD in the works!

[@HorrorGalSusan]

Amazing!!! Love Annie's work/voice sooo much! Wish I could have been there for this!!!

[@lgvillard]

"Georgia on my mind" seems to be a jewel !!! I can't wait to hear the album !!!

[@TheQueerOfSoul]

Diva!!! Excited for her new album #Nostalgia !!!

[@ywai1987]

Anne Lennox, you don't have to twerk to be be relevant, you are timeless and flawless. Love you!

[@eleven42am]

I certainly am anxious to buy this album next month! Thank you Annie for putting out what I know will be a beutiful album and being the kind of artist who doesn't make me feel like my eyes and ears are going to hell... :)

[@cornellwaters9089]

🌃 Thank You!

[@alwaysblistening]

Welcome back, Ms. Annie! Can't wait for #nostalgia

[@DirOfTheObv]

Thank you for posting the scenes from this event. As someone born and raised in Georgia, and a forever Annie Lennox fan, thank you so much for putting this song down in THIS album!! Listening to the tease of it, gives me chills!! Thanks To Annie!!!

[@68katjett]

I love your singing.

[@psylocke7]

I've been wanting her to record "I put a spell on you" forever. Good things come to those that wait. Ha!

[@patriciataylor8343]

She is an amazing woman. She has integral beauty as well as astounding external appeal.

[@rhyfeddu]

*Can't wait.* Though obviously I will! I've longed to hear her work her magic on standards. That it will include some well known as Billie Holiday songs is an extra, extra bonus. And released on LP too! That's an unexpected treat.

[@DAwNzy7]

Are you KIDDING ME? Even now she’s STILL the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I can’t stand it 😍

[@ronb5892]

Annie, i have been u all the way thank u still living it 12/11/14 ron

[@TheJazzie6]

I just love me Annie Lennox timeless and flawless will this be a cd soon?!!

[@MrScotmac]

cuddle every day of the week lennox

[@mikee758]

Well this is one of those coincidences, i was talking about artists last Sat and Annie was very much one of them, i wonder if her ears ever burn? anyway my big point in relation to her was exactly what she is saying here so she has obviously achieved her hopes. Apart from being a consummate musician Annie brings a "presence" to her work, her video work, that emanates from her even though every take is so exacting. In this day of visuals its as important as the song itself.

[@bronski84]

luv ya anne

[@hemmojito]

Nobody sounds like Annie Lennox

[@RitaEvelynYanez]

Shared!

[@GeorgeZambra]

wow . ¡

[@ricardoribeiro7520]

Tu é foda só isso

[@manulocallad2543]

😘

[@kimkification]

Uninvited.

[@purplehazee13]

I can't with this woman. Putting other women down for THEIR feminism, criticizing the way women express their bodies, and now covering this song. This song has nothing to do with what she explained it to be, "people being mean to each other." It is about BLACK bodies being lynched! Kanye West got so much shit from sampling Strange Fruit, and now you have this woman covering it and people are applauding. I don't understand.

[@purplehazee13]

You have no right to police how a GROWN woman dresses. If she wants to show her body, she can. Women don't have to cover up because of insecure "men" like yourself. Beyoncé has contributed to many organizations, but because she's not some old white lady, it goes unnoticed. And I actually don't idolize anyone, YOU are the one who brought up Beyoncé. Take your sexist/ racist ass somewhere else please.

[@alicesteanson4097]

+Jimmy Stinky Well said!! Beyoncé is trash and should learn from the greatest Annie Lennox

[@purplehazee13]

oh my, how my views have changed...