Annie Lennox : Retrospective

A long-awaited visual memoir by Annie Lennox, legend of music and popular culture. This is the first and only official book by the award-winning artist—destined to be a must-have for music lovers and sure to capture the attention of the fashion and photography worlds.

Throughout a career spanning nearly half a century, Annie Lennox has established herself as one of pop's true superstars and an icon of popular culture. Together with Dave Stewart in Eurythmics, and later as a solo artist, she is responsible for some of the best-selling albums of all time, as well as some of the most memorable images created around music. Always recognized for her unique approach to style and performance—described as “the singer whose powerful, androgynous look challenged the male gaze.”

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. Featuring Polaroids from her personal archives alongside iconic portraits, stills from music videos, and album covers, Annie Lennox: Retrospective brings together more than two hundred images to create an illustrated memoir of a creative life, both in and out of the spotlight.

Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this eagerly awaited volume chronologically traces Lennox's entire life and career—from the early 1970s when she met Dave Stewart, through Eurythmics in the 1980s, and then as a solo artist from the 1990s onwards. Excerpts from her lyrics accompany the photographs throughout the book. Engaging captions and personal anecdotes shed light on periods of her life, telling the stories behind the images.

At once intimate, revealing, and celebratory, this is a beautiful and compelling document of the woman behind one of the most powerful voices in music.