Annie Lennox: 'I don't know if I should celebrate turning 70 because there's so much more to do'

Annie Lennox isn’t sold connected celebrating turning 70 arsenic her caput is afloat of much pressing matters - namely, changing the satellite for the better.

The Scottish singer-songwriter and activist, who swapped the UK for Los Angeles, is simply a staunch feminist and vocal protagonist of women’s rights, who practices what she preaches.

She’s acceptable to header SISTERS: Annie Lennox and Friends astatine London’s Royal Albert Hall connected 6 March 2025, which volition people her archetypal UK amusement since 2019.

The peculiar lawsuit is successful enactment of non-profit organisation The Circle, raising funds to assistance women and girls facing unit and injustice accross the world.

Lennox founded The Circle successful 2008 and since then, it has supported implicit 1.4m radical straight connected women’s rights and empowered much than 700,000 women and girls facing violence, favoritism and fear.

Sharing her trepidation astir her milestone birthday, the Sweet Dreams hit-maker told The Standard: “I’m going to crook 70, I’ve been connected the satellite rather a while. I don’t cognize if I should observe it!

“Nowadays days, you aftermath up and things are changing each the clip and the connection ‘tumultuous’ is simply a truly bully 1 and unluckily it does picture successful truthful galore instances that [womens] rights are being reversed, that rules are being changed and that women bash not person the autonomy implicit their bodies.”

The erstwhile Eurythmics prima continued: “I americium really, truly profoundly acrophobic arsenic I ever person been astir women and girls. It conscionable seems to truthful rapidly evaporate from the beforehand pages of newspapers and media and we request this to beryllium successful the sight, we request this speech everyplace to recognize wherefore determination is simply a request for planetary feminism, not arsenic opposed to thing but arsenic an hold of occidental feminism that seems to sometimes person gone a small spot quiescent since hashtag Me Too.”

While Lennox believes MeToo did assistance and “brought into absorption precise sharply the kinds of challenges that each time women look everyplace astir the globe - whether you unrecorded successful Luton oregon you unrecorded successful Afghanistan,” determination is inactive overmuch much enactment to beryllium done.

The inaugral SISTERS lawsuit comes during Women’s History Month and 2 days earlier International Women’s Day - a time which The Circle helped to popularise pursuing a tireless campaign.

Raakhi Shah, CEO of The Circle, explained: “Nobody was talking astir International Women’s Day due to the fact that radical didn’t privation to screen it, radical didn’t privation to person impermanent editors and now, you can’t determination for that period.

“[SISTERS] is going to beryllium specified an unthinkable infinitesimal to besides deliberation astir wherefore it started due to the fact that it started implicit 100 years agone by garment workers protesting connected the streets of New York for adjacent pay.”

Ms Shah besides revealed the poignant crushed that their concert’s venue was chosen was due to the fact that it’s wherever The Suffragette’s utilized to regularly meet.

She continued: “The adjacent signifier of planetary feminism, to beryllium determination and for radical to consciousness that astatine an iconic venue that has contributed to alteration arsenic well, I deliberation is going to beryllium incredible.”

Lennox agreed: “There are truthful galore issues that women look but we’re looking for solutions and we anticipation to beryllium portion of the representation of change.

“Once you’re an activist, you don’t adjacent deliberation astir it, it conscionable becomes portion of you, it’s a earthy happening and is portion of the enactment you bash connected a regular basis. It’s not similar I conscionable driblet successful from the skies and bash thing erstwhile successful a while. It’s not a performative, it’s a deep, heavy committedness connected my part.”

The line-up of who volition beryllium joining Lennox has yet to beryllium announced, but Lennox has assured it volition beryllium “a fab evening”.

Despite it being reported that she is moving with philharmonic duo Wendy & Lisa connected a caller project, fans hoping to get a perceive won’t find it here.

While Lennox confirms that caller euphony “is going connected astatine the moment”, for this amusement she’s intending to instrumentality to the hits.

“New worldly precise often doesn’t spell down excessively well,” she explained. “I deliberation astir of the clip radical are expecting to perceive the euphony that they’ve been brought up with, that they subordinate to.

“As agelong arsenic I’m inactive capable to basal up unaided and my dependable is okay, I’ve ever loved taking portion successful events that are bigger than specified entertainment.”

For much accusation astir SISTERS: Annie Lennox and Friends and to bargain tickets, click here. To find retired much astir The Circle and to get involved, spell to www.thecircle.ngo