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Did Annie Lennox announce she's HIV+ at Live8?

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Did Annie Lennox announce she's HIV+ at Live8?

Postby ebbhead » Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:01 pm

Forgive me. I'm not trying to be glib and I don't know that she's ever released this piece of info *if* it is in fact true, but when Annie was performing "Why?" on the ABC 2 hr. Live 8 highlight show, there was a video playing with something along the lines of: "[b]Every person[/b] you see in this film is HIV+..." And along with all the Africans with HIV/AIDS who followed, she was in the film.

If this is already public info and I've just been in the dark, I apologize for my ignorance. If not, and I'm interpreting the preface to the film correctly, then I'm floored.
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Postby WolverineSyr » Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:24 pm

I didn't think about it when I saw that in the highlights show. I've never heard anything about it. I'd err on the side of not though.
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Postby ebbhead » Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:26 am

Yet another reason the American coverage of this show sucked... The film apparently said: "Every single person in this film is HIV+, *except Annie Lennox*". Would have been nice if ABC hadn't cut away at that point to another shot. [:(!]
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