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New Album 'A Christmas Cornucopia' Artwork, Tracklisting And First Single Revealed
September 26th 2010.

New Album 'A Christmas Cornucopia' Artwork, Tracklisting And First Single Revealed
September 26th 2010



Ladies and gentlemen it gives us great pleasure to reveal for the first time the cover artwork, tracklisting and details for Annie Lennox's forthcoming album A Christmas Cornucopia.

'A Christmas Cornucopia' will be released on 15th November 2010. The first single has been confirmed as ''Universal Child''. All of Annie's income from 'Universal Child' will be paid to the Annie Lennox Foundation,” Annie's own charity that raises money for charitable projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS. To find out more about the The Annie Lennox Foundation's work click here.

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You can pre-order the album from Tuesday 28th September from Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp

One of the most successful, iconic and talented artists of the late 20th century is back – and back like you’ve never heard her before.

On November 15th 2010, Annie Lennox releases her sixth solo album. A Christmas Cornucopia is a collection of new, inspired interpretations of 11 traditional festive songs, rounded out by a new Lennox composition, Universal Child.

“All the income that I earn from Universal Child will be paid to the Annie Lennox Foundation.” The Annie Lennox Foundation, the stars own charity, raises money for charitable projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS.

“I’ve known these songs, these carols all my life, I’ve sung them since I was little,” says the songwriter and singer of The Holly And The Ivy, Silent Night, The First Noel and other, less-widely-known songs such as Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant, and Lullay Lullay. “ They’re just in me. They’re a huge part of my life. So it’s not an arbitrary selection. Those relationships with those pieces of music were there intrinsically before I approached the recording.”

The music on the album was mostly played by Lennox, in collaboration with co producer Mike Stevens, and recorded in his southwest London studio – at the bottom of his garden. But to achieve the resonance and vibrancy that were integral to Lennox’s ideas for these re-energized reboots, the pair also worked with a 30-piece orchestra at Pinewood Studios. And they travelled further afield too: to South Africa, to record with the African Children’s Choir, a remarkable organization with which impassioned campaigner and activist Lennox has long had a relationship.

“There are 34 different choirs. They’re like a big extended family – the people who work with them, their careers, are called aunties and uncles. And it’s so precious – if you asked them, as we did with these eight and nine year olds, ‘how is your life different now that you’re in the choir?’ They would say things like, ‘Now I get really good food to eat.’ Or, ‘Now I wear nice clothes.’

“I had met them several times before, through 44664 (Nelson Mandela’s HIV AIDS foundation) – we had this ongoing connection, and I felt that if I was to record any children’s voices it had to be theirs.”

A Christmas Cornucopia is no sweetly packaged selection box. As befits its title, it offers an abundance of songs – drawn from British, French and German traditions – and a host of ideas. On Lullay Lullay, “a lullaby I’ve known for years and the darkest carol I think,” Lennox draws direct links between the Nativity and the plight of Africa’s child soldiers. “Lullay Lullay alludes to the killing of first-born boy children by King Herod… and going back more deeply into the story of the song, I kept getting images of child soldiers in my head…The violation of children is endemic in many so places. Even though this carol is ancient, the brutality of the subject matter is just as relevant today.

Vibrant but vintage, classic and contemporary, glorious but with a polemical edge – notably in Universal Child – A Christmas Cornucopia also marks the beginning of Annie Lennox’s relationship with Universal/Island.

“The Island team were so enthusiastic, and so excited to be working with me, and I was blown away that they felt like that. It feels very energized, and fresh and new. And that’s a great feeling for me.”

You can hear as much in A Christmas Cornucopia.

A Christmas Cornucopia is available for pre order from Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.jp from Tuesday 28th September, keep checking back for more details and for regular updates follow Annie on : Facebook, Twitter,Myspace or join the Annie Lennox forum here

Tracklisting:
1) Angels from The Realms of Glory
2) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3) See Amid The Winter’s Snow
4) Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant
5) The First Noel
6) Lullay Lullay (Coventry Carol)
7) The Holly and The Ivy
8) In The Bleak Mid Winter
9) As Joseph Was A Walking
10) Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
11) Silent Night
12) Universal Child

Not so long time ago...in a Stadium not so far, far away...

This didn't catch me until the end...watch the two guys in the back especially the one who discovers something lying on the floor after Snoop makes short work of the loud mouth.

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Time for WTF? Theatre.

A Doozy for today...

To Pull Off The Prank, You May Have To Pay The Price.

Bet both the pranker and the prankee didn't see that coming.

The Greatest Music Video To Come Down The Pike In The Last 10 Years!

Thanks to the sponsorship of State Farm Insurance...
This is totally legit and was shot with one long take.

His Orc Was Defeated By His Level 83 Wife

From "The Scottish Sun" Newspaper
By VICTORIA ALLEN
Published: 04 Jan 2010

Robert Cushnie, 42, had happily shared his home with a giant model of an Orc - a creepy character from a computer game - for six years.
But his Canadian spouse Dee, 42, warned that if he didn't ditch the gruesome creature, she'd move back to her homeland without him.
So now distraught Robert, of Aberdeen, has been forced to have his giant toy ADOPTED.
Last night the telecommunications manager explained "It came down to the wife or the Orc.
(PHOTO - 2008 News Group Newspapers Ltd)


"She said there wasn't any room for him in our life. I've had him for six years but Dee means more to me, so he had to go."
Orcs are bloodthirsty warriors from the fantasy computer game World of Warcraft.
And Robert was thrilled when he landed his life-sized metal and plastic figure from a Falkirk toy shop that shut down.
But he and Dee, who married last February, will move to Canada later this month - without the Orc.
Dee said: "I just don't like it. I'm only 5ft 3in, so it towers over me, which is quite creepy."
The Orc has found a new home in Aberdeen with Michael Thomson, 61, and wife Patricia, 55.
And their granddaughter Kimberlea Logie, 16, is already a fan.
Last night Patricia said: "We wanted him because he's so unusual. Our grandkids love him."
Robert said: "I'll miss him - but I'm glad he's gone to a good home."

Now For A Short Movie Break...

Taylor has quite the 19th birthday!

Every other birthday in this kids life will suck in comparison...have a great life Taylor.

Ladies, keep those hedges tidy!

Sometimes Justice is served red hot!

Insurgent firing on either coallition forces in Iraq, or Hamas firing on Isralie targets...regardless...Allahu Ak-BOOM!

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It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas...the quick and easy way!

I so want a couple of these!

I CAN'T LOOK AWAY.

More musings on this after I have mulled over my first reactions to this.

My Favorite Version...

Ah, Christmas... one of my least favorite times of the year. NOT because I hate Christmas, but rather with the occupations I have in the theatre, I usually spend most of my December trying to make other people's holidays merry by running multiple shows at the venues I oversee. But this year is different, the Deadly X-mas Tree has come and gone, There is no other events scheduled at that venue for the rest of December so I can safely put aside that theater till January 2010, And more importantly I am collaborating on a X-mas project with my best friend. It has been a struggle at times, but I wouldn't trade the experience and the friendship with him for anything in the world. I am proud of what we have built together and look forward to every performance we have left.

That, and It gives me a reason to put this little ditty back up...lol

Well...I for one am creeped out!

Is it just me or does this gentleman seem a bit TOO enthused about this?...i.e. CRAZY?





oh well, I guess you have to be a bit crazy to want to be int he insurance business.