ANNIE LENNOX, Best Of CD Announced After Delay

After a release delay due to her illness, The Annie Lennox Collection has been officially announced  a Febr 10, 2009 release from Annie Lennox, the most successful female British artist in pop music history.  A 14-song retrospective brings together her best solo work on a single disc, and includes two new songs available exclusively on this release.  Covering 15 years, The Annie Lennox Collection also available in a Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes hits from her four top-selling solo albums Diva (1992), Medusa (1995), Bare (2003) and last year's Songs of Mass Destruction. Her timeless music selected for this collection reflect the essence of the singer's instantly recognizable brand of soul music on tracks like "Why," "Walking on Broken Glass" and "No More 'I Love You's'" -- a song that earned Lennox one of her four Grammys.  "It seems like the time has come to release the Collection this year," Lennox says of her first best-of set. "I'm very proud of these songs. They are timeless and have become 'classics' in their own right."

The retrospective also includes two new songs that Lennox recorded specially for this collection. The first, "Pattern of My Life," was written by Tom Chaplin of Keane. The second is a cover of "Shining Light," a song originally recorded by Ash in 2001. "I first discovered this song by Ash about six years ago, and I simply couldn't stop listening to it. It's so exultant that it virtually shimmers," Lennox says.

A dynamic activist, Lennox recently received the Red Cross Services to Humanity Award, the YouthAIDS outstanding achievement award, was named the 2008 Glamour Inspirational Woman of the Year and sang for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration this summer in London. And, this year the American Music Awards (AMAs)  will give Annie Lennox (Eurthymics) with a special Award of Merit given to some of the industry's most influential artists (Prince, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley). During the show, Lennox will also give a special performance which will be her first since having back surgery in August, 2008. The show airs live from the Nokia Theatre in L.A. on Sunday, November 23 (8:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on ABC.