Happy 60th birthday Lulu
Posted: November 2nd, 2008, 3:52 am
Can it really be 44-yrs ago that a 16-yr-old girl from Glasgow with her backing group The Lovers hit the British charts with one of the great rock an roll numbers Shout, which is regarded even now as the great lady's theme song.
Was it really 41-years ago that the 19-year-old Lulu acted in and sang To Sir With Love. It was her first number one, but not in the UK where it was on the b side of one of her singles, but in America, where it was recognized as a great song
Was it really 39-years-ago that the 21-year-old Lulu tied with four other acts and won The Eurovision Song Contest with Boom Bang A Bang, a song she didn't particulary like.
Other landmarks in a glitterting career include the Bond song The Man With The Golden Gun from Roger Moore's second outing as 007 and The Man That Ruled The World.
Lulu also did a bit of acting, for which, despite her own misgivings, she's very talented. On stage she was Peter Pan and Adilade in Guys And Dolls.. On tv she replaced the great Julie Walters and played the mother of Adrian Mole in The Diaries Of Adrian Mole, in a role she was very good.
Astonishingly she had to wait till the 1990s before she had her first and to date only UK number-one, teaming up with boy band Take That (a group that at the time included Robbie Williams) singing Relight My Fire.
Recently Lulu was a mentor on Simon Cowells Pop Idol in America and is flying out to the States to record tracks in the near future.
I maybe bias, but I think Lulu is the most successful female singer to come out of Scotland and IMHO second to only Tina Turner as the worlds best female rock an roll singer. In fact Lulu wrote Don't Wanna Fight for Tina in the movie What's Love Got To Do With It and sings the song in her own act.
Happy Birthday Lulu. Scotland is proud of you and as you would say in your Glasgow accent How's It Goin'
Was it really 41-years ago that the 19-year-old Lulu acted in and sang To Sir With Love. It was her first number one, but not in the UK where it was on the b side of one of her singles, but in America, where it was recognized as a great song
Was it really 39-years-ago that the 21-year-old Lulu tied with four other acts and won The Eurovision Song Contest with Boom Bang A Bang, a song she didn't particulary like.
Other landmarks in a glitterting career include the Bond song The Man With The Golden Gun from Roger Moore's second outing as 007 and The Man That Ruled The World.
Lulu also did a bit of acting, for which, despite her own misgivings, she's very talented. On stage she was Peter Pan and Adilade in Guys And Dolls.. On tv she replaced the great Julie Walters and played the mother of Adrian Mole in The Diaries Of Adrian Mole, in a role she was very good.
Astonishingly she had to wait till the 1990s before she had her first and to date only UK number-one, teaming up with boy band Take That (a group that at the time included Robbie Williams) singing Relight My Fire.
Recently Lulu was a mentor on Simon Cowells Pop Idol in America and is flying out to the States to record tracks in the near future.
I maybe bias, but I think Lulu is the most successful female singer to come out of Scotland and IMHO second to only Tina Turner as the worlds best female rock an roll singer. In fact Lulu wrote Don't Wanna Fight for Tina in the movie What's Love Got To Do With It and sings the song in her own act.
Happy Birthday Lulu. Scotland is proud of you and as you would say in your Glasgow accent How's It Goin'