Annie Lennox: Retrospective

Join the iconic Annie Lennox for a special evening celebrating the release of . A Cooper Union Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum event, this will be Lennox’s only New York City lecture on her book. Music journalist and SiriusXM radio host Lori Majewski will be in conversation with Lennox about her first illustrated memoir, which charts her life as a creative both in and out of the spotlight. Rizzoli Bookstore will be on site with books available for purchase.

In a career spanning nearly 50 years, Lennox has established herself as one of the true superstars of pop music. With Dave Stewart as Eurythmics, and later as a solo artist, she is responsible for some of the best-selling records of all time, as well as some of the most memorable imagery created around music. Retrospective brings together Polaroids from Lennox’s personal archives alongside iconic portraits, music video stills, and record covers from some of the great image-makers of our time, from Richard Avedon and Paolo Roversi to Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth.

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Annie Lennox, OBE, is an award-winning Scottish singer-songwriter and activist. She and fellow musician David A. Stewart achieved major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognized female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She also has won four Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and numerous other honors including 37 charitable and humanitarian awards. In 2022, Lennox was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Eurythmics was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. In 2011, Lennox was presented with an Order of the British Empire by HRH The Queen. She is founder of The Circle—a Global Feminist Organization, working in partnership supporting women and girls confronting gender-based violence and economic inequality across the world. www.thecircle.ngo

Lori Majewski is an entertainment journalist, co-author of Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s, and the host of SiriusXM’s 1st Wave and Spectrum Channels as well as the Gracie Awards-recognized series Fierce: Women In Music. Majewski is also a former magazine editor (Entertainment Weekly, Teen People, and Us Weekly), and has written for The Hollywood Reporter, the Guardian, and Rolling Stone among others.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Great Hall at The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, United States