LOVE IS A STRANGER
ANNIE LENNOX & DAVE STEWART
SONGWRITERS: ANNIE LENNOX & DAVID ALLAN STEWART
COUNTRY: SCOTTLAND
ALBUM: GREATEST HITS
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: NEW WAVE
YEAR: 1991
Ann Lennox(born 25 December 1954) is a
Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After
achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band the Tourists, she and
fellow musician Dave
Stewart went on to achieve international
success in the 1980s as Eurythmics.
Appearing in the 1983 music video for "Sweet Dreams
(Are Made of This)" with orange cropped hair
and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states,
"all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look
defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)"
and "Here Comes
the Rain Again".
Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with
her debut album, Diva,
which produced several hit singles including "Why"
and "Walking on
Broken Glass". The same year, she
performed "Love Song for
a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's
Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa,
includes cover versions of songs such as "No More
'I Love You's'" and "A Whiter
Shade of Pale". To date, she has released
six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie
Lennox Collection(2009). With eight Brit Awards, which
includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion
of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video
Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard
Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard.
In 2004, she received the Golden Globe and the Academy
Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West",
written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has
been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The
100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.
In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. In June
2013 the Official
Charts Company called her "the most successful
female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her
work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As
part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird"
during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello
Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors,
the first woman to receive the honour.
In
addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social
activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/AIDS as it affects
women and children in Africa. She founded the SING Campaign in 2007 and founded a women's empowerment charity called The Circle
in 2008. In 2011, Lennox was appointed na OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of
humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012, she performed at the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In
2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian
University's first female chancellor.
"Love Is a Stranger" is a song by
the British pop duo Eurythmics. Originally released in late 1982,
the single was commercially unsuccessful, but it was re-released in 1983,
reaching the UK top 10. The single was re-released again
in 1991, to promote Eurythmics' Greatest Hits album.
Love is a stranger
In an open car
To tempt you in
And drive you far away
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
Love is a danger
Of a different kind
To take you away
And leave you far behind
And love love love
Is a dangerous drug
You have to receive it
And you still can't
Get enough of the stuff
It's savage and it's
cruel
And it shines like destruction
Comes in like the flood
And it seems like religion
It's noble and it's brutal
It distorts and deranges
And it wrenches you up
And you're left like a zombie
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession
It's guilt edged
Glamorous and sleek by design
You know it's jealous by nature
False and unkind
It's hard and restrained
And it's totally cool
It touches and it teases
As you stumble in the debris
And I want you
And I want you
And I want you so
It's an obsession.
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