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Track List
01) Why
02) Walking on Broken Glass
03) Precious
04) Legend in My Living Room
05) Cold
06) Money Can't Buy It
07) Little Bird
08) Primitive
09) Stay by Me
10) The Gift
11) Keep Young and Beautiful
01) Why
02) Walking on Broken Glass
03) Precious
04) Legend in My Living Room
05) Cold
06) Money Can't Buy It
07) Little Bird
08) Primitive
09) Stay by Me
10) The Gift
11) Keep Young and Beautiful
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5:08
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4:24
5:00
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First Released
1992
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Album
4,000,000 copies
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Diva is the first solo album by Scottish singer/songwriter Annie Lennox, released in 1992. The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being certified quadruple platinum. It was also a success in the U.S. where it was a top 30 hit and has been certified double platinum.
In 1993 the album was included in Q magazine's list of the "50 Best Albums Of 1992". Rolling Stone magazine (6/25/92, p. 41) described the album as "...state-of-the-art soul pop..." and it is included in Rolling Stone's (5/13/99, p. 56) "Essential Recordings of the 90's" list. Several songs from the album were released as singles with "Why", "Walking on Broken Glass" and "Little Bird" being the most successful. "Walking On Broken Glass" was covered by Samantha Fox for her "Just One Night" album, although Samantha Fox's version was not included on the album as originally intended. Samantha Fox's version was included as a bonus track on the 2-CD "deluxe edition" of "Just One Night", released in 2012.
The song Keep Young and Beautiful was included on the CD release as a bonus track (the original vinyl album had only ten tracks). Another bonus track, "Step by Step", appeared on the Mexican and Japanese editions of the album and was also included as the B-Side on the single "Precious". The song was later recorded by Whitney Houston for the 1996 film soundtrack The Preacher's Wife and subsequently became a hit single.
The album won Best British Album at the 1993 Brit Awards. That same year, it was also nominated for the Grammy for Album of the Year.
User Album Review
Pain . . . suffering . . . cynicism.
By-products of romantic disappointment that should be avoided? Not if you're Annie Lennox.
No female pop-rock singer explores gloomy, biting torch songs better than Lennox, who's been dubbed the Downer Diva. Even songs accompanied by cheery, bouncy music have morose messages, such as the striking "Walking on Broken Glass," the highlight of this solo debut album and one of the best tunes she's ever had. But there's also a sense of freedom and expansiveness through most of the album, both in the songs (most of which she wrote or co-wrote) and in her interpretations--a freedom that has been missing in Lennox's work since the early days of Eurythmics.
"Diva" is stinging and well-crafted, mostly featuring songs that are slow or medium-tempo. There's no rocker of the intensity of her terrific oldie "Would I Lie to You?"--but "Little Bird" is close. Lennox does, however, exhibit some humor. She proudly parades it on the closing tune, the tongue-in-cheek "Keep Young and Beautiful," a perky bit of fluff from the '30s movie musical "Roman Scandals."
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Diva is the first solo album by Scottish singer/songwriter Annie Lennox, released in 1992. The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being certified quadruple platinum. It was also a success in the U.S. where it was a top 30 hit and has been certified double platinum.
In 1993 the album was included in Q magazine's list of the "50 Best Albums Of 1992". Rolling Stone magazine (6/25/92, p. 41) described the album as "...state-of-the-art soul pop..." and it is included in Rolling Stone's (5/13/99, p. 56) "Essential Recordings of the 90's" list. Several songs from the album were released as singles with "Why", "Walking on Broken Glass" and "Little Bird" being the most successful. "Walking On Broken Glass" was covered by Samantha Fox for her "Just One Night" album, although Samantha Fox's version was not included on the album as originally intended. Samantha Fox's version was included as a bonus track on the 2-CD "deluxe edition" of "Just One Night", released in 2012.
The song Keep Young and Beautiful was included on the CD release as a bonus track (the original vinyl album had only ten tracks). Another bonus track, "Step by Step", appeared on the Mexican and Japanese editions of the album and was also included as the B-Side on the single "Precious". The song was later recorded by Whitney Houston for the 1996 film soundtrack The Preacher's Wife and subsequently became a hit single.
The album won Best British Album at the 1993 Brit Awards. That same year, it was also nominated for the Grammy for Album of the Year.
User Album Review
Pain . . . suffering . . . cynicism.
By-products of romantic disappointment that should be avoided? Not if you're Annie Lennox.
No female pop-rock singer explores gloomy, biting torch songs better than Lennox, who's been dubbed the Downer Diva. Even songs accompanied by cheery, bouncy music have morose messages, such as the striking "Walking on Broken Glass," the highlight of this solo debut album and one of the best tunes she's ever had. But there's also a sense of freedom and expansiveness through most of the album, both in the songs (most of which she wrote or co-wrote) and in her interpretations--a freedom that has been missing in Lennox's work since the early days of Eurythmics.
"Diva" is stinging and well-crafted, mostly featuring songs that are slow or medium-tempo. There's no rocker of the intensity of her terrific oldie "Would I Lie to You?"--but "Little Bird" is close. Lennox does, however, exhibit some humor. She proudly parades it on the closing tune, the tongue-in-cheek "Keep Young and Beautiful," a perky bit of fluff from the '30s movie musical "Roman Scandals."
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