Annie Lennox delivers Berklee's 2013 commencement address, sharing the history of her love of music, and how it singularly shaped her future. She reflects on milestones from her own musical journey, hoping to inspire the students as they move forward in their lives and careers at this critical moment of profound change. She recounts the musical loves from her formative years: the Beatles, the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Dusty Springfield, Motown, Martha Reeves, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, the Beach Boys, the Mamas and the Papas, Traffic, and Fleetwood Mac. She expands on musical greats, her voice soaring above the graduates as she channels Marvin Gaye in "I Heard It through the Grapevine," Noel Harrison in "The Windmills of Your Mind," Glen Campbell in "Wichita Lineman," Aretha Franklin in "I Say a Little Prayer," and fellow commencement honoree Carole King's "It's Too Late." She encourages the students to remember to remain open to the shi
