How Annie Lennox Got ‘Everybody’ To Sing On ‘Sing’

Time Off magazine spoke with Annie Lennox about her ‘Songs Of Mass Destruction’ track ‘Sing’, which features vocals from Anastacia, Isobel Campbell, Dido, Celine Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Beth Gibbons, Faith Hill, Angelique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, Gladys Knight, k.d. lang, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Beth Orton, Pink, Bonnie Raitt, Shakira, Shingai Shoniwa, Joss Stone, Sugababes, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright. ‘Sing’ is a charity record aimed to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organization Treatment Action Campaign. “One day I woke up and realized how to do this song – the idea was to contact other international female artists to help me out,” the 52-year-old explained. “A lot of the time people are contacting me, but this time I wanted to turn things around the other way. I was a little shy to do it at first, but we wrote letters and emails to various people who I think are great, very well respected and who are very popular around the world. Almost everybody that I contacted – without exception – said that they wanted to do it.” Timeoff.com.au has since removed the full article.