Annie contributed her favourite album to this article in the Independent Newspaper this weekend, click the link to read the full feature and all the albums that were contributed.
Annie Lennox – Magical Mystery Tour, The Beatles
That’s probably my favourite Beatles album. I was about 13 when it was released, and it had a massive impact on me. One of my most special memories of Abbey Road is when I got to sing using the “special” microphone that Paul McCartney and John Lennon used. It’s brought out only on rare occasions.
As The Beatles’ former studio faces closure, leading figures in music tell Mark Jewsbury what they think is the best album ever recorded there
News last week that debt-ridden EMI might sell its much-loved Abbey Road studios spurred swift action from the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and the National Trust. Immortalised by the Beatles album to which it lends its name, Abbey Road is a landmark in 20th century music: Elgar conducted an opening performance in 1931, and at 16, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin recorded with the composer there.
The studios in north-west London could be granted Grade II status as early as Monday, when Baroness Andrews, the chair of English Heritage, is to meet the Culture minister, Margaret Hodge. While the National Trust is also interested, EMI’s reported asking price, in excess of £30m, will be an obstacle. Whatever the outcome, as our panel shows, closure would cue the final chords of the soundtrack to British musical life.