Medusa (Annie Lennox album)
| Medusa | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
||||
| Studio album by Annie Lennox | ||||
| Released | 6 March 1995 | |||
| Recorded | January – May 1994 | |||
| Genre | Pop, rock, adult contemporary, electronica, dance | |||
| Length | 47:11 | |||
| Label |
RCA (UK) Arista (US) |
|||
| Producer | Stephen Lipson | |||
| Annie Lennox chronology | ||||
|
||||
| Singles from Medusa | ||||
|
||||
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Entertainment Weekly | C− |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The New York Times | (Mixed) |
| Rolling Stone | |
Medusa is the second solo album by the Scottish singer Annie Lennox, released in March 1995, and consists entirely of cover songs. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number 1 and peaked in the United States at number 11, spending 60 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. It has since achieved double platinum status in both the United Kingdom and the United States and sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.
The album yielded four singles in the United Kingdom: "No More I Love You's" (which entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 2, Lennox's highest ever solo peak), "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Waiting in Vain" and "Something So Right".
The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards of 1996, losing to Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell, however, Lennox took home the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance award for her work on the first single "No More I Love You's". This album was re-released in late 1995 in a double jewel case containing the album Medusa and a nine-track bonus CD featuring the studio version of Paul Simon's "Something So Right" (with Simon guesting on vocals and guitar) and eight tracks recorded live from the concert in Central Park: "Money Can't Buy It", "Legend in My Living Room", her Eurythmics hits "Who's That Girl?", "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart" and "Here Comes the Rain Again", along with "Why", "Little Bird" and "Walking on Broken Glass".
...
Wikipedia