Annie Lennox

Annie Lennox uses the Neumann KMS 104 Plus Handheld Vocal Studio Condenser Microphone during her performance of "Why" at Live 8 in 2005, as seen in the concert footage.

Used on "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", as mentioned by bandmate Dave Stewart in this Sound on Sound "Classic Tracks" interview about the song.

Lennox, meanwhile, was suffering a low, inspiring the song’s deceptively jaded lyric, which was written quickly in a half?hour burst when she heard the track that Stewart was working on. “Annie won’t dispute this,” says Stewart, “but she was actually feeling really down and often quite depressed and lost. I kept up with the drum beat, and I also had half of the sequence. Annie sort of leapt off the floor and was like, ‘What is that?’ And she got on the [Oberheim] OB?X. Annie had a string sound that we liked on there, and then she played that riff on top of what I was playing and the two synthesizers together with that drum beat made this unbelievable thing.

“The drum computer was triggering a sequence into the Roland SH?101 that sounded powerful, and the Oberheim was more of a soft string sound that we managed to cut off so it made it more attacking. I think it was actually a preset, I don’t think we made the sound. The Roland is playing the original sequence and then Annie was playing in between it. ‘Sweet Dreams’ always confuses keyboard players when they try and play it, because they don’t realise it’s actually two keyboard parts that are playing completely different things.”

Throughout this video Annie Lennox is seen with a Yamaha Concert Grand Piano CFX.

In this photo Annie Lennox is seen with a Yamaha CP300.

In this 1985 advertisement for the Seiko DS250 they mention Annie Lennox's use of the keyboard.