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Wigs. Evening dresses. Men's suits. Old plastic bags. Lashings of make-up. Even false moustaches. Annie Lennox has worn them all during her stints with The Tourists and the Eurythmics. Dave Rimmer listened as she looked through a pile of old photos and gave a guided tour through her ever-changing image...(continued)

"This is from the "Love Is A Stranger" video. I wanted to represent a rich expensive wh*re with blonde hair. I don't really enjoy wigs. They're rather hot and give you headaches." "This is just befre I cropped all my hair off. We just wanted to look like two people, although obviously related, so we wore the same kind of shirts." "I cropped my hair on a whim, like everything I do. I like it really short. I think I got into the suits because Dave had been buying them. Just like with my hair, I thought:"why not?"
"My haircut here is an accident. A barber cut it far too short. This is also when I first started to put a red stripe across my face. I plagiarized that from Malcolm McLaren.." "When I appeared on the Tim Rice show on TV, I thought that on such an establishment programme I'd rather appear in another guise. I wanted a sort of vampy look." "These are the characters in "Who's That Girl?" The woman represents the pinnacle of the what one would imagine a girl singer in a cabaret to be. The guy...he's a little dodgy."

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