4
          Sep
        
            
               eyes might just as well have been closed 
(or:  september 4’s honey from the hive)            
          
		  posted at 8:27 am by brandon in sweet you rock and sweet you roll
        
Annie Lennox  — “A Whiter Shade of Pale”  (from Medusa)  —  

Sherry Ann and I have this thing we call “The Annie Lennox Rule,” which simply states that once Annie has lent her golden pipes to a particular tune, said tune has been officially and irrevocably sung. And so it holds here, as Procol Harum’s densely cinematic, drug-addled classic becomes, in Ms. Lennox’s eminently capable hands, a lush, wistful, dreamlike masterpiece.



