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Annie Lennox   04/30/2003

Orpheum Theater, San Francisco, CA
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Media shn 2aud   1 disc
Notes Disc 1

01. Money Can't Buy It
02. Legend in My Living Room
03. Little Bird
04. 1000 Beautiful Things
05. No More I Love Yous
06. Walking on Broken Glass
07. Pavement Cracks
08. Cold
09. Here Comes the Rain Again
10. Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
11. Who's That Girl?
12. You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart
13. Don't Let It Bring You Down

Disc 2

01. Wonderful
02. Bitter Pill
03. Would I Lie to You
04. Sweet Dreams
05. Missionary man
06. I Need a Man
07. Why
08. banter/crowd
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Annie Lennox band 2003

musical director
Mike Stevens

guitar
Tony Remy

bass
Paul Turner

keyboard, acoustic guitar
Adam Wakeman

keyboards
Bernie Smith

drums
Steve Barney

back-up singers
Beverly Skeete
Claudia Fontaine
Carol Kenyon
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Annie Lennox
2003-04-30
Orpheum Theatre, San Francisco Ca

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Disc 1

01. Money Can't Buy It
02. Legend in My Living Room
03. Little Bird
04. 1000 Beautiful Things
05. No More I Love Yous
06. Walking on Broken Glass
07. Pavement Cracks
08. Cold
09. Here Comes the Rain Again
10. Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
11. Who's That Girl?
12. You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart
13. Don't Let It Bring You Down

Disc 2

01. Wonderful
02. Bitter Pill
03. Would I Lie to You
04. Sweet Dreams
05. Missionary man
06. I Need a Man
07. Why
08. banter/crowd
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Annie Lennox band 2003

musical director
Mike Stevens

guitar
Tony Remy

bass
Paul Turner

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News review:
Lennox bares her old-school soul
She plays diva in Orpheum show

Neva Chonin, Chronicle Pop Music Critic Friday, May 2, 2003


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When the crowd started shouting "Diva!" halfway through Annie Lennox's Wednesday show at the Orpheum Theatre,

they were name-checking the title of the singer's 1992 solo debut album. But they were also stating fact:

Lennox is a diva in the purest sense of the word, gifted with a vocal talent that transcends fashion and musical fortune.

On June 10, the former Eurythmics chanteuse will release "Bare," her first solo CD since her 1995 covers album "Medusa"

and her first batch of original songs in 11 years -- though she reunited briefly with Dave Stewart for a Eurythmics album,

"Peace," and a tour in 1999.

Her combination of new-wave class and old-school soul has been missed, and her San Francisco fans let her know it with a series

of ovations that rocked the house. The final stop of Lennox's monthlong U.S. tour, the Orpheum show found singer and audience

uniting in an emotional trip that spanned the wicked elation of old favorites like "I Need a Man" and the cool desolation of "Wonderful."

The 110-minute set drew from every stage of Lennox's career, beginning with selections from "Medusa" and ending with an encore of

hits that included "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "Missionary Man."

Throughout, Lennox proved that her formidable voice remains as captivating as it did when the Eurythmics ruled the '80s pop charts,

conveying longing, lust, jealousy and desolation in combinations as varied as the singer's soul-inspired phrasing.

Backed by a scrim that flashed images and snippets of text, Lennox and her five-piece band deftly reworked past songs and

introduced new material in a series of solemn ballads and slow jams. Some numbers conveyed a single mood,

as when Lennox brought out the most melancholy aspects of "Here Comes the Rain Again" by reworking it as a one-woman piano piece.

Others played like emotional journeys: "Walking on Broken Glass" rose from a pensive hymn to a stirring vocal workout;

a cover of Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" shifted from sorrowful meditation to inspirational clarion call;

"Pavement Cracks" shifted gears midway from existential solo piece to a group dance-floor hoedown.

An acoustic rendition of "Who's That Girl?" turned from jealousy to self-reflection as photographs of Lennox flashed across the screen,

and singer and band riffed off each other in an improvisational call-and-response. For "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves,"

Lennox joined her three excellent backup singers -- Carol Kenyon, Beverly Skeete and Claudia Fontaine -- in a display of

vocal pyrotechnics that demonstrated the song's messages of strength and self-sufficiency in powerful aural terms.

When Lennox closed the night with "Why," a scathing chronicle of love gone wrong from "Diva," she managed to turn it into a

declaration of endurance without changing a word.

"These are the contents of my head/ And these are the years that we have spent/ And this is what they represent,"

she decreed in a crescendo that sent tremors through the sound system. For Lennox, the past is alive and undeniable, but so is she,

and she's moving on with the survival instincts of a born diva.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/02/DD303637.DTL


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