Steven Spielberg to Receive 2009 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center

9 Sep 2009 14:00 Africa/Lagos

Steven Spielberg to Receive 2009 Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center

WHO: Steven Spielberg


WHAT: Will receive the 2009 Liberty Medal in an outdoor ceremony at the National Constitution Center in Historic Philadelphia.


WHEN: Thursday, October 8
Media Check-In: 3:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Ceremony: 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: National Constitution Center
Front Lawn
525 Arch Street
Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106


DETAILS: The National Constitution Center's 2009 Liberty Medal will be awarded to filmmaker and humanitarian Steven Spielberg for his artistic and personal commitment to the preservation of human rights. Through his award-winning films, Spielberg has presented stories of the struggle and triumph of humanity over tyranny, informing and inspiring millions to better understand the abiding call of liberty. Spielberg has also dedicated himself to gathering and archiving testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of genocide through the Shoah Visual History Foundation, ensuring future generations will never forget the tragedy of liberty lost.


The Liberty Medal will be presented to Spielberg by President William J. Clinton, Chairman of the National Constitution Center. Governor Edward G. Rendell and Mayor Michael A. Nutter will also participate in the ceremony.


The Liberty Medal ceremony will air on 6abc on Sunday, October 11 at 7:00 p.m. The ceremony will be webcast live on www.constitutioncenter.org and www.6abc.com.


PLEASE NOTE:


Credentials are required for press entry to this event. The following credential application must be completed and returned to Ashley Berke by Friday, September 18.


REQUEST FOR PRESS CREDENTIALS
2009 LIBERTY MEDAL
National Constitution Center
525 Arch Street, Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106

***CREDENTIALS ARE REQUIRED FOR PRESS ENTRY TO THIS EVENT***
Return form no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 18, 2009

IMPORTANT: PLEASE SEND ONE FORM PER PERSON.
THERE WILL BE A MAXIMUM OF ONE REPORTER AND ONE PHOTOGRAPHER PER OUTLET
ADMITTED TO THE CEREMONY ON DAY OF EVENT.

Credential Pick-Up:
Thursday, October 8
3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
At check-in point upon arrival
6th and Arch Streets


FULL NAME________________________________________________________
MEDIA AFFILIATION_________________________________________________
IF FREELANCE, NAME OF ASSIGNING MEDIA*___________________________
ADDRESS_________________________________________________________
CITY, STATE, ZIP___________________________________________________
TELEPHONE_________________________ FAX __________________________
E-MAIL____________________________________________________________
*All media must be filing a story to receive a credential.


YOU MAY MAKE COPIES OF THIS CREDENTIAL REQUEST FORM AND FAX TO ASHLEY BERKE AT 215-409-6650 OR E-MAIL TO ABERKE@CONSTITUTIONCENTER.ORG no later than Friday,


September 18, 2009.


You will receive confirmation of your approval via email by Friday, September


25, 2009. Please do not inquire about the status of your application prior to that date.


Thank you.


CONTACT: Ashley Berke, Senior Public Relations Manager of National Constitution Center, +1-215-409-6693, aberke@constitutioncenter.org


/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Sept. 9/


Source: National Constitution Center

Web Site: http://www.constitutioncenter.org/
http://www.6abc.com/

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Video: PEEPSHOW Starring Mel B. & Costarring Kelly Monaco, Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, Produced by BASE Entertainment

PEEPSHOW
Starring Mel B.
&
Costarring Kelly Monaco
Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell
Produced by BASE Entertainment
******************************************************************
Celebrates World Premiere

April 18, 2009
AT PLANET HOLLYWOOD RESORT & CASINO


Las Vegas, NV (April 20, 2009) /PRNewswire/ — PEEPSHOW, the new, sophisticated, ultra-hot show celebrated its world premiere on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

Pop superstar and television personality Mel B. originates the role of the "Peep Diva," alongside Kelly Monaco who takes the stage as "Bo Peep," a timid girl who the Diva guides in her transformation into a confident, sensual woman. Alongside Mel B. & Kelly is a sizzling ensemble of sexy PEEPSHOW GIRLS, showstoppers from film, TV, Broadway and beyond who were handpicked to complete a highly-skilled, voluptuous cast unlike any other on The Strip. To top it off, the entire production is backed by a powerhouse all-female rock band playing today's best-known hits and original songs created especially for PEEPSHOW.

"PEEPSHOW is a one-of-a-kind, stunning and seductive production that leaves the audience wanting more," said Robert Earl, co-chairman of Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. "PEEPSHOW is a natural fit for Planet Hollywood and we're proud to be the home of this dazzling world premiere."

A highly stylized, full-throttle production show that combines sexy striptease and celebrity with high-level production values and a dash of passion, PEEPSHOW is a collaboration between Tony award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell and Las Vegas entertainment pacesetter BASE Entertainment.

PEEPSHOW is a perfectly naughty night out for any fan of first class live entertainment – Vegas style! Men, women, couples, groups, parties are all welcome. Don't miss the start of something audacious, with Mel B and Kelly Monaco as the first in a series of sexy and exciting stars.

"We are celebrating the arrival of PEEPSHOW," says Co-CEO of BASE Entertainment, Scott Zeiger. "This show is a departure from anything else in Las Vegas. We employ truly spectacular staging, design and production values, the most beautiful women you have ever seen and a top notch creative team led by Jerry Mitchell."

In addition to choreography and direction from the venerated Jerry Mitchell, acclaimed designer David Rockwell has lent his talents to the show by designing the lavish sets and Showroom, creating a custom environment befitting the naughty fairytale world of PEEPSHOW. Tony award-winning designer Gregg Barnes created seductive costumes, blurring the line between PEEPSHOW and reality.

For more information please visit www.LasVegasPeepshow.com.

The Creative Team:
Jerry Mitchell: Director/Choreographer/Creator
Andrew Lippa: Composer/Musical Supervisor/Arranger
David Rockwell: Scenic Design
Gregg Barnes: Costume Design
Chris Lee: Lighting Design
Acme Sound Partners: Sound Design
Zachary Borovay: Video Design
Josh Marquette: Hair Design
BASE Entertainment: Producer

PEEPSHOW performs at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 8 p.m. and Thursday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. with no show on Wednesday. Schedule is subject to change without notice. Tickets range from $65 – $100 + tax, with a VIP package available at $165 + tax per person. Enjoy plush and exclusive cabaret seating at the foot of the stage and your choice of a complimentary specialty cocktail with the PEEPSHOW VIP Package.

Tickets for PEEPSHOW can be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or online at Ticketmaster.com, or through The Planet Hollywood Box Office at 702-785-5000 / 877-333-9474. For groups of 10 or more, please call 702- 785-5394 / 866-633-0195 or Groups@BASEentertainment.com. For more information please visit www.LasVegasPeepshow.com.

Rediscovering Mendelssohn - 2009 Marks 200th Birthday of Composer Who Fell Out of Favor for Nearly a Century

20 Feb 2009 19:27 Africa/Lagos


Rediscovering Mendelssohn - 2009 Marks 200th Birthday of Composer Who Fell Out of Favor for Nearly a Century

GEORGETOWN, Texas, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Much attention is being given this year to the 200th anniversary of the births of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. For music scholars, 2009 marks another important bicentennial - the birth of German composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847).

Although Mendelssohn was quite well known in his day, his reputation faded as anti-Semitism rose during the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe (Mendelssohn was born to a prominent Jewish family that later converted to Christianity).

"Generations of people were programmed not to take Mendelssohn seriously," says Michael Cooper, holder of the Margarett Root Brown Chair in Music at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. "People didn't begin to take him seriously until after World War II as the 150th anniversary of his birth started coming up and people realized the nature and extent of the wrongs committed by the Nazis."

The decline in Mendelssohn's fame after his death was compounded by the fact that he was notoriously reluctant to publish his music. Of the 400 or so pieces he wrote, only about 160 survive today in published form.

"Mendelssohn only published enough to keep his name out there," Cooper says. "He didn't like to publish his music because once it was published, he lost control of it and couldn't change it. Mendelssohn was an incurable tinkerer - he liked to rework and rework his music."

Cooper is one of a cadre of scholars who have devoted their lives to trying to reconstruct Mendelssohn's work. "There is a massive amount of work to do," he says.

Cooper himself has reconstructed seven Mendelssohn pieces that were believed to be missing. His most recent endeavor was the reconstruction of a piece that Mendelssohn wrote with Ignaz Moscheles, a German pianist and composer who was a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. The piece, titled Fantasy and Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra on the Gypsy March from Weber's "Preziosa," was originally commissioned in 1833 to be performed in a benefit concert for the Philharmonic Society of London.

After the piece premiered on May 2, 1833, the original score for the piece was set aside. The work has been known only in an arrangement for two pianos without orchestra published by Moscheles in 1834.

Cooper says music historians now know that Mendelssohn left London as soon as the piece was performed to take another job. He left the original score with Moscheles, who bequeathed it to his son, Felix (who was named after Mendelssohn), who in turn gave it to the Russian pianist Anton Rubenstein in 1889. When Rubenstein died in 1894, he bequeathed his estate to the St. Petersburg Conservatory, which has thousands of historic music manuscripts.

"The St. Petersburg Conservatory didn't know what they had," Cooper says. "It was just something that existed in a card catalog and a weathered folder."

Cooper found a reference to the piece in an auction catalog in 1996 and contacted the Conservatory. However, at that time the curators of the Conservatory's music library were still hesitant about sharing their manuscripts with Westerners. Cooper persisted, though, and in January 2003 the Conservatory finally sent him digital scans of the piece.

Cooper spent the past several years reconstructing the piece, and the Austin Civic Orchestra will play it this month for the first time in 150 years during a concert at Southwestern University.

In the coming months, Cooper has been invited to give nearly 20 presentations and papers at conferences celebrating the Mendelssohn bicentennial. One of the first of these conferences will be held at Montana State University, March 26-28, and is expected to draw all the leading English-language Mendelssohn scholars. Additional events are being planned in Rostock and Hamburg, Germany; London; Paris; and New York. The largest gathering will occur late August in Leipzig, Germany, where Mendelssohn spent the last 12 years of his life serving as music director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the leading European orchestra of the day.

"The academic community has been gearing up for the bicentennial of Mendelssohn's birth since 2000," Cooper says.

Cooper says he was personally drawn to Mendelssohn because his music contains great emotional extremes. "His sense of pacing and drama are flawless," he says.

Cooper says not everything Mendelssohn wrote is a masterpiece, but even his weaker pieces are ones other composers would be glad to call their own. His most famous pieces include the wedding march from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and two oratorios - "Elijah" and "St. Paul."

"Most people have heard Mendelssohn's music, just without his name attached to it," Cooper says.

In addition to a "gold mine" of music, Cooper says Mendelssohn left behind a wealth of correspondence, dating from when he was six years old to his death at age 38.

"Mendelssohn was a major figure in 19th century European life - someone who was in frequent contact not only with other major composers such as Berlioz, Chopin and Robert and Clara Schumann, but also with people from Hans Christian Andersen, Goethe and others all the way up to the Queen Victoria and the kings of Prussia and Saxony," Cooper says. "We have about 3,500 surviving letters to him and another 5,000 or so written by him - and the vast majority of those letters have never been published. For anyone who's interested in art, politics and culture in the mid-19th-century, those letters are a largely untapped source of insight and understanding. We've only just begun to really use them for what they have to teach us."

This news release was issued on behalf of Newswise(TM). For more information, visit http://www.newswise.com/.

Source: Southwestern University

CONTACT: Ellen Davis of Southwestern University, +1-512-863-1570,
davise@southwestern.edu

Will You Marry Me?

WSWIRE ESSENCE COMMUNICATIONS INC. WINNING COUPLE ESSENCE COMMUNICATIONS INC. WINNING COUPLEABC-TV's Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts congratulates winning couple Ebiakpo Jituboh and DeKeisha George of Queens, NY, alongside ESSENCE editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray. (PRNewsFoto/Essence Communications Inc./Matthew C. Anderson) NEW YORK, NY UNITED STATES 02/13/2009

13 Feb 2009 17:42 Africa/Lagos

Ebiakpo Jituboh and DeKeisha George of Queens, NY Named as the Winners of ESSENCE Magazine's Will You Marry Me? 2009 Contest!

Couple Receives a $50,000 Dream Wedding Courtesy of ESSENCE During a Pre-Valentine's Day Special on ABC-TV's Good Morning America!

ESSENCE will feature a "Will You Marry Me?" Valentine's Day special to air on TV One

NEW YORK, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ebiakpo Jituboh and DeKeisha George of Queens, NY, have been named the winners of ESSENCE Magazine's "Will You Marry Me?" Contest! Essence.com received more than one million votes for the five participating couples, but in the end, Ebiakpo and DeKeisha's heartwarming love story won the most votes. The winners, who will receive a $50,000 dream wedding courtesy of ESSENCE, were revealed during a pre-Valentine's Day special on ABC-TV's Good Morning America this morning. Tiffany & Co. is the sponsor of Will You Marry Me? 2009.


(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090213/NY70687 )


ESSENCE offered gentlemen across the country the chance of a lifetime -- to surprise their girlfriends with a dreamy proposal in the pages of the magazine for its third annual Will You Marry Me? feature. ESSENCE was bombarded with letters from men wanting to propose in the magazine after publishing an ad in the September 2008 and October 2008 issues. The letters came pouring in, but only five special men were selected to share their love story with more than 8 million readers. Readers were able to log on to Essence.com to see videos of each of the romantic proposals captured by ESSENCE's hidden cameras, see each woman's shocked responses and vote for their favorite duo by February 12.


"ESSENCE is so happy for Ebiakpo and DeKeisha, the winners of our annual Will You Marry Me? Contest," says Angela Burt-Murray, editor-in-chief, ESSENCE. "More than one million Essence.com viewers logged on to vote for their favorite couple and were obviously touched by Ebiakpo's unwavering support for DeKeisha, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis only two years ago. Our readers have now helped a deserving couple realize their dream of bringing their families from Trinidad and Nigeria to what is sure to be a beautiful wedding."


ESSENCE and TV One, an entertainment and lifestyle television network for African-Americans, will also offer viewers a romantic treat for Valentine's Day when the two bring back the TV special companion to the contest on Saturday, February 14 from 9-10 PM. ESSENCE has produced a one-hour television special that features the five men from four different cities around the U.S., who will share their love stories with ESSENCE readers and TV One viewers and provide their girlfriends with the proposal of a lifetime.


The remaining finalists are: Rashad A. Sanders and Andrea J. Hill of Houston (Andrea's father had given his blessing to Rashad before he passed away); Anthony D. Lewis and Kirstan K. Simmons of Houston (Anthony popped the question at Houston's Museum of Natural Science); E. Sean Collier of Atlanta and Ashley P. McCollum of Cincinnati (Ashley received a surprise underwater proposal at the aquarium); and Edmond Clark and Tamica Young of Griffith, Indiana (Tamica was surprised with a proposal while she was at lunch with friends).


Go to www.essence.com to see the winning couple and to relive the winning moment!


About Essence Communications Inc.:


Essence Communications Inc. (ECI) is the leading media and communications company dedicated to African-American women. With a multi-platform presence in publishing, live events, and online, the Essence brand is "Where Black Women Come First". The company's flagship publication, ESSENCE magazine, is the preeminent lifestyle magazine for African-American women; generating brand extensions such as the Essence Music Festival, Women Who Are Shaping the World Leadership Summit, Window on Our Women (WOW I & II) and Smart Beauty I, II & III consumer insights, the Essence Book Club, Essence.com, and ventures in digital media (mobile, television and VOD). For 38 years, ESSENCE magazine, which has a readership of 8.1 million, has been the leading source of cutting-edge information relating to every area of African-American women's lives. Additional information about ECI and ESSENCE is available at essence.com.


About Essence.com:


Essence.com is the daily online destination for African-American women that informs, entertains and connects. The expansive web destination delivers daily fresh content, engaging blogs, robust photo galleries, a substantial online community and original video programming across four channels that include: News & Entertainment, Fashion & Beauty, Relationships and Lifestyle. Essence.com is currently the largest and fastest growing African-American magazine website. The site's growth is unsurpassed and reaches more than a million monthly unique visitors. The new Essence.com launched in September 2008 as one of the first projects to come from the partnership between The Warner Bros. Television Group and Time Inc.'s Essence Communications Inc.


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http://photoarchive.ap.org/
AP PhotoExpress Network: PRN 7
PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: Essence Communications, Inc.

CONTACT: Dana Baxter, +1-212-522-1634, dbaxter@essence.com, or Sheila
Harris, +1-212-522-1089, sharris@essence.com, both of ESSENCE


Web Site: ESSENCE

Photos: Make Valentine's 2009 a Special Weekend by Rediscovering Your Partner with Free Erogenous Zone Maps Created Exclusively for Couples

MAKE VALENTINE'S 2009 A SPECIAL WEEKEND BY REDISCOVERING YOUR PARTNER WITH FREE EROGENOUS ZONE MAPS CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR COUPLES

DOWNLOAD A HIS AND HERS LOVE MAP FOR FREE AT WWW.PHILIPS.COM/INTIMATEMASSAGERS AND HAVE AN EXCITING WEEKEND LOVE-IN

London, UK · Friday 13/02/09 /PRNewswire/ — Philips Intimate Massagers has launched a complete set of his and hers Love Maps designed to help couples explore and discover multiple erogenous zones together. With this Valentine's weekend set to become a stay-at-home event for couples in the UK, the Love Maps designed for Philips Intimate Massagers give British couples an exciting body plan to take each other on an exciting sexual journey.

Many erogenous zones are neglected by time poor couples. Love Maps, created together with leading Sex and Relationship expert Paula Hall, give each partner a refresher in their partner's hot spots. His and hers Love Maps are available for free download at www.philips.com/intimatemassagers so they can be added into the sexy bedroom moments couples have planned for Valentine's and beyond.



Paula Hall says: "The good thing about sex is it's free, but often it's rushed. Men sometimes have trouble remembering that women have excitingly sensitive areas in many places all over their body and a large number of women don't often give their man top to toe attention."

Paula continues: "The Philips Love Maps can help couples make their time together over the Valentines weekend playful and deliciously sexy. To build an exciting air of anticipation couples could print off the maps and plan their weekend together. Partnered with chocolates, bath oils, flowers and even a special intimate gift, British couples will be able to have their sexiest Valentine's ever, whatever their budget."

Introducing different thrills allows couples to discover new ways to touch and communicate with each other. The Intimate Massagers range was created by Philips to bring couples a whole new level of sensuality and satisfaction to their sexual relationship. With their sculpted design, Intimate Massagers can be held comfortably in the palm of the hand allowing continual skin to skin contact. The multiple stimulation surfaces and soothing vibrations give an exciting sexy experience to foreplay.

Intimate Massagers are a Valentine's gift that keeps going all year round. Couples wanting to invest in a deeper sexual relationship will love the sensual feel, grown up design and playfulness an Intimate Massager brings to the bedroom. Coupled with a Love Map, this Valentine's will be the sexiest ever.

For more information and to download the exclusive erogenous zone his and her Love Maps simply visit www.philips.com/intimatemassagers.

Contact Information:
Philips Press Bureau
Nadiya Fyle or Brett Lowther
Tel. 020 7878 3260
philips.cl@mslpr.co.uk
Philips Consumer Lifestyle
Deneice Clark, Senior PR Manager
Tel: 01483 298 517
Deneice.Clark@philips.com
For More Information visit: www.philips.com/intimatemassagers

Quote Bank:
Sex and Relationship expert Paula Hall, "The good thing about sex is it's free, but often it's rushed. Men sometimes have trouble remembering that women have excitingly sensitive areas in many places all over their body and a large number of women don't often give their man top to toe attention."

Sex and Relationship expert Paula Hall, "The Philips Love Maps will help couples make their time together over the Valentines weekend playful and deliciously sexy. To build an exciting air of anticipation couples could print off the maps and plan their weekend together. Partnered with chocolates, bath oils, flowers and even a special intimate gift, British couples will be able to have their sexiest Valentine's ever, whatever their budget."

Costs and retailers
There are three different sets in the range: Dual Intimate Massagers, Warm Intimate Massager and Warm Intimate Massager with Candlelights. They are available from selected House of Fraser stores, Boots, Selfridges (Oxford St.) and Amazon.co.uk. Prices start at £79.99, with an extra 1/3 off price promotion until Valentine's Day.

Notes on the company
About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a diversified Health and Well-being company, focused on improving people's lives through timely innovations. As a world leader in healthcare, lifestyle and lighting, Philips integrates technologies and design into people-centric solutions, based on fundamental customer insights and the brand promise of "sense and simplicity". Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 121,000 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 26 billion in 2008, the company is a market leader in cardiac care, acute care and home healthcare, energy efficient lighting solutions and new lighting applications, as well as lifestyle products for personal well-being and pleasure with strong leadership positions in flat TV, male shaving and grooming, portable entertainment and oral healthcare. News from Philips is located at www.philips.com/newscenter.

Annie Lennox Releases Her First-Ever Retrospective on Sale February 17, 2009

Annie Lennox Collection. (PRNewsFoto/J Records/19 ENTERTAINMENT) LOS ANGELAS, CA UNITED STATES 01/28/2009

28 Jan 2009 14:00 Africa/Lagos

Annie Lennox Releases Her First-Ever Retrospective on Sale February 17, 2009
**MOVED FROM FEBRUARY 10 RELEASE DATE**

TWO NEW SONGS AND LIMITED DELUXE CD/DVD EDITION AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY WITH THIS COLLECTION

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Annie Lennox Collection paints a vivid portrait in song of the most successful female British artist in pop music history. Available on February 17 from Arista Records, this 14-song retrospective brings together the acclaimed artist's finest solo work on a single disc for the first time, and includes a pair of new songs recorded exclusively for this release.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090128/NY63707 )

Spanning 15 years, The Annie Lennox Collection also available in a limited deluxe CD/DVD edition includes hits from her four top-selling solo albums Diva (1992), Medusa (1995), Bare (2003) and last year's highly praised Songs of Mass Destruction (2007). The timeless music selected for this collection uniquely reflects the essence of the singer's instantly recognizable brand of soul music on tracks like "Why," "Walking on Broken Glass" and "No More 'I Love You's'" -- a song that earned Lennox one of her four Grammys.

"It seems like the time has come to release the Collection," Lennox says of her first best-of set. "I'm very proud of these songs. They are timeless and have become 'classics' in their own right."

The two new songs that Lennox recorded specially for this collection include "Pattern of My Life," written by Tom Chaplin of Keane. The second is a cover of Shining Light, a song originally recorded in 2001 by Ash. "I first discovered this song by Ash about six years ago, and I simply couldn't stop listening to it. It's so exultant that it virtually shimmers," Lennox says. "Shining Light" is the retrospective's first single and hitting the airwaves of Adult Top 40 and hot AC formats February 9. Look for the video to premiere exclusively on AOL Music this week.

On February 10, Annie Lennox will perform songs from her new collection and interview with New York Times chief pop music critic, Jon Pareles at The New York Times Talk Live - An Evening with Annie Lennox. Her promotional tour continues with performances on Good Morning America (ABC) February 10 and Live With Regis & Kelly (ABC) February 11. On February 13, Lennox will perform on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC) and the GRAMMY Museum at LA Live will host An Evening with Annie Lennox. The night will include an Audience Q&A session and special performance. A one hour 5-song performance and interview A&E Television Private Sessions will air March 8.
During The 2008 American Music Awards, Justin Timberlake presented Lennox with the Award of Merit. In years past this award has been given to some of the industry's most influential artists. Previous honorees include Prince, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond and Gloria Estefan. During the show, Lennox give a special performance of Why which was her first appearance since having back surgery in August 2008.
"There are certain musicians that other musicians love, and she is one of those special artists, held in the highest regard by her peers," Timberlake said of Lennox. "I love that she's always been on the cutting edge of fashion, she's always looked so so cool and taught us how to look cool. Then there's her humanitarian work. She's been an activist for just causes all over the world, mostly in silent ways that you've never even heard about. She does this from her heart, motivated purely by love."

Among the many highlights on The Annie Lennox Collection is "Sing," a song that references The SING Campaign, a humanitarian organization Lennox founded to raise awareness and support for the AIDS/HIV pandemic in Africa. "We're still in the early stages, but this is a lifelong commitment on my part," Lennox says. "I'm coming out from behind my singing voice to express myself in broader terms and help give a voice to those who don't have the same opportunities as I do."

A dynamic activist, Lennox recently received the Red Cross Services to Humanity Award, the YouthAids outstanding achievement award, was named the 2008 Glamour Inspirational Woman of the Year and sang for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday celebration this summer in London.

In her 26-year career, both as a member of the groundbreaking Eurythmics and as a solo artist, Lennox has amassed sales of more than 78 million albums worldwide. Her towering achievements also include 34 hit singles, four Grammy Awards, 11 Brit Awards and five Ivor Novello Awards. The superstar has also won an Academy Award and Golden Globe.

To Listen to the retrospective please click the following: The Annie Lennox Collection
CD/DELUXE CD Track Listing
1. "Little Bird"
2. "Walking on Broken Glass"
3. "Why"
4. "No More I Love You's"
5. "Precious"
6. "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
7. "A Thousand Beautiful Things"
8. "Sing"
9. "Pavement Cracks"
10. "Love Song for a Vampire"
11. "Cold"
12. "Dark Road"
13. "Pattern of My Life"
14. "Shining Light"

LIMITED EDITION DELUXE DVD
1. "Little Bird"
2. "Walking on Broken Glass"
3. "Why"
4. "No More I Love You's"
5. "Precious"
6. "A Whiter Shade of Pale"
7. "A Thousand Beautiful Things"
8. "Sing"
9. "Pavement Cracks"
10. "Cold"
11. "Dark Road"

Website:
http://www.annielennox.com/

Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090128/NY63707
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
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PRN Photo Desk, photodesk@prnewswire.com
Source: J Records
CONTACT: Roger Widynowski, 19 ENTERTAINMENT/ VP of Music / TV
Publicity, +1-310-461-1788, rogerw@19entertainment.com; or Tom Muzquiz of RCA
Music Group, +1-310-449-2638, Tom.Muzquiz@sonybmg.com
Web Site: http://www.annielennox.com/

Happy New Year 2009!

I am glad and grateful to the Almighty God for His infinite mercies and saving grace for keeping us alive and well from the beginning of 2008 to the end and ushering us into the New Year!

Thank you for reading Kisses ‘n’ Roses and thank you very much if you bought any of the items sold on this blog and through this blog.

Break the ice!
Pop the Question!
Be nice to the world!

I love you heart and soul.

I wish you all the best things in life in 2009!