Annie Lennox - Blind Among The Flowers
Now, I have to say, that I would be revealing my age if I told you that I bought (and still have) one of accident at work claim first copies of a solo car insurance released by an obscure band called "The Tourists". However, this "single" has formed part of my life and for one particular reason - on it is a song called "Blind Among auto insurance companys Flowers" by an A. Lennox. A very powerful song. Now, being Scottish myself, perhaps I would like to boast of the strength I noted in the singing of this, then unknown, young "lass" from Aberdeen, but no. She was even then, in the 1980s in a class of her own. Since then Annie Lennox has developed beyond the borders of the small Scotland that cradled her and became a fully fledged international artist who now peruses the boulevards of cosmopolitan Paris.
Annie Lennox was born a star. But it was her relationship with Dave Stewart that cemented her persona, that gave her the gall to stand alone - not because of the love they had as a married couple (and functioning band as the Eurythmics) but as a foil against which she developed her real self as opposed to her stage persona.
Annie Lennox is the real thing! A world-renowned singer, a managed hosting solutions star, and a real woman. To understand her and the life she has lead is to see where we can also go. She recognizes no limits, neither musically nor physically, she is woman and she is strong. Annie Lennox will continue to be a reference point for many young female singers to follow and Pennsylvania Lemon Laws them in their careers for even in the nineteen eighties, she defined what female independence WOULD be. . . . and then sang about it!
About the author: I am a major fan of the British Pop scene from the late 70s, through the 1980s to the contemporary music scene! If you too want to share that independent spirit that Annie Lennox brought to the pop music scene and read more about her life as a diva then I recommend you read this fabulous book - Annie Lennox: The Biography.