Live Review: Annie Lennox at the Nob Hill Masonic Center, 10/10/07

Soulful searching from pop chameleon Lennox: Aidin Vaziri | Launching her first American tour in four years with a slick five-piece band and two commanding backup singers, Lennox wore a sparkly little black dress over plain black trousers. Even though the old videos, which seemed to appear every time she dipped into her rich back catalog, provided a distracting game of "then and now," she looked ravishing. Lennox put showstopping exclamation marks on the stomping choruses of songs like "Walking on Broken Glass" and "Thorn in My Side." But it was the ballads that gave her soulful voice room to take flight, especially during the concert's exquisite centerpiece, "Cold," which came accompanied with an otherwise useless slide show depicting pictures of frost, ice and snow. Continue reading.
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