As per "Annie Lennox: The Biography," by Bryony Sutherland and Lucy Ellis', Annie Lennox was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, to Tom Lennox, a shipyard boilermaker, and Dorothy Lennox, a homemaker and occasional school cook. She remembers on Al Jazeera's "One on One":" "My family didn't have a lot of money to go around. We weren't absolutely poor, but every penny had to be accounted for, saved, and ... rigorously economized." She remembers fondly visiting her neighbor to watch their color TV and watching her dad practice the bagpipe.
As Lennox's family friend June Smith recalls, Lennox was an only child, and this meant two things. One, her parents were a little stricter with her than most families at the time. Two, in comparison to other working class families, the Lennoxes could afford a little more as they didn't have the usual several mouths to feed.
Tom Lennox and his whole side of the family were stern communists (which was the norm for working class men at the time). This would reflect in his behavior toward Annie: She remembers him as authoritarian, something that damaged their relationship at times. Dorothy Lennox, on the other hand, was a softer presence, as per Lennox's friend Barry Maguire: "[She] moves like an angel, gentle, with ivory pink skin ... She's a very caring mother, wanting Ann to do the right thing." But, despite financial hardship (and diverging parenting styles), both parents supported Lennox in her pursuit of music.
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