Annie Lennox has collected an OBE from the Queen at Buckingham Palace for her charity work fighting Aids and poverty in Africa.The former Eurythmics singer, 56, said: “Its quite magical. Its really meaningful to me that its for charity work.
“To get this acknowlegement means people are listening. Campaigning has been taking up a great deal of my commitment for quite a few years, and what it means is that theres a significance to what Im doing – Im not just working in a void”.
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.
