All everyone ever sees is the last results of it - I wanted to put the spotlight on process …” she adds, stopping mid-sentence to marvel over a mounted ankle-length leather jacket designed by Jeff Banks - a piece Lennox famously wore in the video to the hit Thorn In My Side (off Eurythmics’ bestselling disc to date, 1986’s Revenge). “There’s so much work involved in putting pop images together. “It’s a mix between performance art, video work and showcase,” Lennox says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The twist? Glass panels will ensure museum visitors will not be visible to her but she will be visible to them. The title of the exhibit - The House of Annie Lennox - comes from her own website (named The House of Me) and is designed as a house within a house so that Lennox can occasionally be physically on display as well, locked away and guarded while working at a desk within the display’s smaller dwelling. Most of the ephemera (think shopping lists to handwritten song lyrics) she regards as “fabulous souvenirs” that track her four-decade career as a solo artist and frontwoman for Eurythmics and her somewhat unknown first band, a Dusty Springfield-meets-Fleetwood Mac pop group called The Tourists. “Finally, I get to collate pieces of my career nobody has seen: Namely, the dedication that goes into costume and performance,” she says of the 50-plus items surrounding her. “I feel its time to open up a little more than I have in the past,” the 56-year-old performer explains, while doing a last-minute spot check of her newly assembled V&A space four days before the doors open. “She’s been pop music’s most private star for years! I highly doubt she’d approve!”Ĭontrary to the caustic post, Lennox not only consented to having intimate parts of her life be put on display, she willingly collaborated with the museum for more than a year to support the project.

“Does she even know about this?” LennoxLover34 commented, authoring a message in bold caps on the popular music blog Divas And Other Beings. When it was announced in May that Annie Lennox would be the sole focus of an art exhibit at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, fans of the Scottish singer-songwriter took to their respective online forums.

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