"I said we need a 'la la part' that people can sing along with, the example I gave was The Passenger ... which is where he believes Lennox heard the song. "All I know is Annie was recording an album ...

Annie Lennox won a Grammy Award in 1995 for best female pop vocal performance for No More I Love You's [Getty Images] Forty years ago, two friends wrote a song in a London flat that would end up being ...