Annie Lennox

This women's charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall was the Eurythmics singer's first headline show in six years - but despite strong performances and starry guests, the tone felt all wrong

The British pop queen made a blazing return to the stage for this charity concert — and looked like she knew it was where she belonged

In recent times we have seen Annie Lennox mostly in that last role, and so think of her as a highly serious, passionate and intense person.

We are happy to report that that is not the case: she has never been dropped by Sony Music.

A towering monolith in a trouser suit polished professional and always note-perfect Lennox was the safest bet in pop.

Annie Lennox has always been visually striking, but the cover of her current album, Bare, offers her most startling image yet. Lennox, a 48-year-old mother of two, faces the camera, apparently devoid of makeup. It is an appropriate image: since her divorce from film-maker Uri Fruchtmann, honesty has become

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