Annie Lennox Book, ‘Retrospective,’ A Visual Memoir, Coming

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Annie Lennox has announced a “visual memoir,” Retrospective, her first official book, featuring more than 200 images from Polaroids and portraits to music video stills and album covers, along with personal anecdotes. The title from the acclaimed singer, songwriter and activist, comes from Rizzoli, and arrives September 16, 2025. It’s available for pre-order here.

As Lennox herself noted, “There have been thousands of photographic images floating around in the zeitgeist throughout the decades of my life as a performer. In a way, each one serves as part of the picture-puzzle narrative of my story. With Retrospective, I wanted to look back at my life’s work lived under the public gaze, throughout the creation of music—lyrics—recordings and film.”

From the publisher’s June 24 announcement: Over a career spanning almost half a century, Annie Lennox has established herself as one of the true superstars of pop music and an icon of popular culture. With Dave Stewart as Eurythmics on such hits as “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),” “Who’s That Girl?” and “Here Comes the Rain Again,” and later as a solo artist, she is responsible for some of the most memorable imagery created around music. Always recognized for her unique approach to style and performance—she has been described as “the singer whose powerful, androgynous look defied the male gaze.”

Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (Photos from the book via Rizzoli)

Lennox has been filmed and photographed by many of the great image-makers of our time, from Richard Avedon and Paolo Roversi to Bettina Rheims and Ellen von Unwerth. With Polaroids from her personal archives alongside iconic portraits, music video stills, and record covers, Annie Lennox: Retrospective collates more than two hundred images to create an illustrated memoir of a creative’s life, both in and out of the spotlight.

Made in close collaboration with Lennox, this highly anticipated volume moves chronologically through the entirety of Lennox’s life and career—from the early 1970s when she first met Dave Stewart following through with Eurythmics in the 80s, and then as a solo artist starting in the 90s and onwards. Extracts of her lyrics accompany the photographs throughout. Engrossing captions and personal anecdotes shine light on periods of her life, to tell the stories behind the pictures.

Annie Lennox and David Bowie performing “Under Pressure” at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium 1992 (Photo from the book via Rizzoli)

Lennox, OBE, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, global feminist, and activist. She and 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, four Ivor Novellos (honored with a Fellowship to BASCA in 2015), 3 MTV Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and numerous other awards and honors. In 2022, Lennox was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Eurythmics was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Lennox embarked on a highly successful solo career in the 1990s with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including “Why” and “Walking on Broken Glass.” To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection. She is the recipient of thirty seven charitable and humanitarian awards as well as twelve honorary degrees and fellowships. 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.