Annie Lennox undergoes back surgery

Annie Lennox has undergone back surgical operation to tone ending an impinged nerve after she recently suffered a back spasm in Mexico.


The former Eurythmics singer was attending an Aids conference in Mexico when she suffered the spasm, then was flown back to the UK to go under the knife, reports BBC News.

Lennox's spokesperson said that the singer was recovering in her London home and that the surgery went to plan. Lennox said that the spasm caused her to feel "more pain than I've e'er experienced in my life".


She also added that she "felt a bit like Elizabeth Taylor" as she was wheeled off the aeroplane when she arrived in the UK.


The expiration of Lennox's forthcoming compilation album, 'The Annie Lennox Collection', has been postponed until future year after initially existence scheduled for release on September 15.


As previously reported on NME.COM, Keane's Tom Chaplin has written a song for Annie Lennox, 'Pattern Of My Life', which will feature on the album.



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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

   
Artist: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Etiquette

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Twinkle Echo

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 14


   
 Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Car

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16

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Casiotone for the Painfully Alone is the lo-fi solo project of Portland, OR, indie son Owen Ashworth. His songwriting is part Bright Eyes-sensitive singer/songwriter grief balladry and Atom & His Package battery-operated antics. His weapons of option are Casio SK-1 and his hot pole Casiotones. His lyrics ar a coy-edged blend of Stephin Merritt's sarcasm and the Mountain Goats' seriousness.


Broadly speaking a concept record album of cagey musical part mails, his first recording, Respondent Machine Music: A Brief Album in Twelve Parts, was released in 1999 on his own label, Cassingle USA. Some of the tracks, including "Root from David Hanna," were first recorded into his car. Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway Cars followed in 2001 on Tomlab and featured several "real" instruments, including violoncello and drums. In 2003, Ashworth released Twinkle Echo, followed by Etiquette in 2006.





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