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BY RICK FULTON thing ever. Even during coronavirus I can pop over.

“We stay socially distanced just in case. We sit in the garden and we chat about life, music and everything. “I love her to pieces.” While it must be daunting to try to match her mum’s success, Lola has got Annie on board to help co-produce her music.

Back At Wrong is being touted as her official debut but Lola has already released In the Wild in February and Pale in April, which was also co-produced by her mother.

Annie, who co-wrote anthems like Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) and Love is a Stranger with Eurythmics and penned Why and Walking on Broken Glass as a solo singer, has admitted she is a perfectionist in the studio.

Lola has nothing but praise for their working relationship. She said: “We have this mother/daughter connection – she understands me better than anybody.

“It was a really special experience working with my mum on the production of Back At Wrong. We have a great relationship where we listen to and respect each other’s opinion, and so it was really exciting for us to explore this new dynamic of creating music together.

“She is a perfectionist, but so am I, so I appreciate digging into the details.

“But we also work from a place of intuition and upbeat fun.” hile Lola may not have Annie’s soft Aberdeenshire burr, she sounds like she has the same passion and drive as her famous mum.

Music was always around Lola – she would watch her mum performing on tour and writing songs at the home she shared with her second husband, Lola and Tali’s dad, film maker Uri Fruchtmann.

It was no surprise when Lola started playing piano at the age of seven and started singing lessons at eight after listening to Destiny’s Child and Lauryn

Hill CDs. She began writing her own songs at 15 and studied classical singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Lola said: “My mum has always been supportive of me.

“As a kid I would go on tour with my mum and watch amazing musicians play every night. There was always music at home. It all really inspired and taught me a lot.

“My mum is such a creative spirit. I grew up surrounded by her creativity and her passion for music. I guess I picked it up.”

While she could have used her famous name to fast-track her music career, Lola has taken her time.

Her first public performance was at a Vogue show in Dubai six years ago and she performed with her mum for the first time on screen the next year for the TV special Annie Lennox: Nostalgia.

Last year, she collaborated with

LOLA LENNOX ON BEING INFLUENCED BY HER MUM

Goldfrapp’s Will Gregory on the soundtrack to the BBC’s Serengeti docu-series – singing and co-writing.

And she is ramping it up this year. She and her mum duetted during the pandemic for Global Citizen One World: Together At Home, performing Annie’s There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) to an estimated audience of 270million viewers.

Back At Wrong is an upbeat rocker that wouldn’t have sounded out of place in the Eurythmics’ Revenge album era.

Set to a pounding piano and catchy beat, the lyrics dig into a warring relationship as Lola sings her heart out with a range that should make Annie very proud.

Lola said: “I wrote Back At Wrong about a relationship that was fraught with dysfunction.

“This song is a statement where I take the power back.” ●Back At Wrong is out today.

Both John Lennon’s sons, Julian and Sean, followed him into music. Julian was Grammy nominated for Too Late for Goodbyes.