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Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, OBE, (born 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, model, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through the 2000s. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 513 Ã— 599 pixels Full resolution (784 Ã— 916 pixel, file size: 131 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lulu (singer) Metadata This file... is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Scotland. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross... is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lennoxtown is a town in Scotland, at the foot of the Campsie Hills, just to the south. ... Stirlingshire (Siorrachd Sruighlea in Gaelic) is a traditional county of Scotland, based around Stirling, the traditional county town. ... This article is about the country. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... A model is a person who poses or displays for purposes of art, fashion, or other products and advertising. ... A celebrity is a person who is widely recognized in a society. ...

Biography

Early 1960s

Lulu grew up in Glasgow, where she attended Whitehill Senior Secondary School, Dennistoun. Taken under the wing of Marion Massey, she shot to fame at the age of fifteen with her version of "Shout!", delivered in a raucous and extraordinarily mature voice. Her backing group were called The Luvvers, but after several more British hits she left the group to become a solo artist. Massey would guide her career for more than 25 years, for most of which she was Lulu's equal partner as a business enterprise. Massey's husband Marc London also wrote many of Lulu's hits. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Dennistoun is a large district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. ... Shout! was a very popular and influential record by The Isley Brothers when it was released in 1959. ...

In 1966, Lulu toured Poland with the British rock and roll band The Hollies, making her the first British female singer to appear live behind the Iron Curtain. In the same year, she recorded two German language tracks, "Wenn Du Da Bist" and "So Fing es an" for the Decca Germany label. She left Decca after failing to place any singles on the chart in 1966 and signed with Columbia to be produced by Mickie Most. All of the 7 singles she cut and released with Most made the UK chart. Despite this, Lulu was disparaging about Most in her autobiography "I Don't Want To Fight", published in 2002. She described him as "cheap" and had little positive to say about their working relationship, which she ended in 1969 after her biggest UK solo hit. Nonetheless, when Most died in 2003, Lulu was full of praise for him and told the BBC they had been "very close"! Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... â€œHolliesâ€ redirects here. ... Warsaw Pact countries to the east of the Iron Curtain are shaded red; NATO members to the west of it â€” blue. ... Mickie Most, born Michael Peter Hayes (20 June1938â€“30 May2003), was a successful English record producer, notably with a string of Number One hit singles with his own RAK Recordsand acts such as The Animals, Hermans Hermits, Donovan, and Suzi Quatro. ...

In 1967 she made her debut as a film actress in To Sir, with Love, a British vehicle for Sidney Poitier. She had a major hit with the title song "To Sir, with Love", which shot to number one in the United States; she makes notable use of melisma in the song, and decades later it remains the song for which she is best known in that country. (In the UK, it was released only on the B-side of "Let's Pretend", a much less successful hit.) In the meantime, she continued with a thriving pop career in the UK and several television series of her own. From 30 June to 2 July 1967, Lulu appeared on The Monkees tour at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Rumours of a romance and indeed an engagement with Davy Jones of The Monkees were rife, but it was a complete media fabrication, created by Jones himself, apparently with her tacit approval. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ... To Sir, with Love (1967) is a British film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social issues in an inner city school, written and directed by James Clavell and based on the memoir of the same name by E.R. Braithwaite. ... Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. ... To Sir, with Love is the theme from the 1967 film To Sir, with Love. ... In music, melisma (commonly known as vocal runs or simply runs) is the technique of changing the note (pitch) of a syllable of text while it is being sung. ... is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ... Wembley Arena at Night (Taken at a live WWE Show). ... Wembley, until 1965 a borough in its own right, forms the northern part of the London Borough of Brent. ... The Monkees were a pop-rock quartet created and based in Los Angeles in 1965 for an NBC American television series of the same name. ...

The Eurovision Song Contest

On 29 March 1969, she represented the United Kingdom by performing the song "Boom bang-a-bang" at the Eurovision Song Contest. The song was chosen by viewers of her BBC1 variety series Happening for Lulu from a shortlist of six entries. Lulu performed one song a week for six weeks and then on week seven, Michael Aspel presented Lulu performing all six songs, one after another. The performances were then repeated and viewers invited to send in postcard votes for their favourites. The six songs were: Bet Ya, March, Are You Ready For Love?, Boom Bang-A-Bang, Come September and I Can't Go On Living Without You. I Can't Go On... was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Michael Aspel introduced them as Elton Jones and Bernie Poppins! Their song came last in the postcard vote, but was later recorded by Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, Polly Browne, Lulu and Elton himself. Boom Bang-A-Bang, written by Peter Warne and Alan Moorhouse was declared the winner. On stage in Madrid, Lulu was accompanied by Sunny & Sue, two well-known backing singers who went on to be the first female members of Brotherhood of Man. The orchestra was conducted by Johnny Harris, Lulu's resident musical director. Lulu's Boom Bang-A-Bang was the joint Eurovision winner with the representatives of Spain, Vivo Cantando by Salome, the Netherlands, De Troubabour by Lenny Kuhr and France, Un Jour, Un Enfant by Frida Boccara all tied with 18 votes each. There had never been a draw before, and the rules were altered to prevent it ever happening again. According to John Kennedy O'Connor's The Eurovision Song Contest - The Official History, the result caused dismay and disgust, leading to Austria, Portugal, Norway, Sweden and Finland all refusing to enter the 1970 competition. ^[1] Lulu had the biggest hit around the continent with her winner, recording German, French, Spanish and Italian versions alongside the original English. is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... Boom Bang-a-Bang was the British entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 It was sung by Lulu, and written by Peter Warne and Alan Moorhouse. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... Michael Aspel (b. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Bernie Taupin (born May 22, 1950) is an English lyricist most famous for his collaboration with Elton John. ... Michael Aspel (b. ... Cilla Black OBE (born 27 May 1942) is an English singer-songwriter and television personality, born Priscilla Maria Veronica White to a Protestant father and a Catholic mother in Liverpool. ... For the author, see Sandy Shaw. ... Lulu can refer to: Lulu (singer), a pop music singer. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ... Brotherhood of Man was a 1970s British pop vocal group, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976, with the country-pop-esque Save Your Kisses for Me. // The group was formed by record producer / composer, Tony Hiller, and originally featured the well-travelled vocalist, Tony Burrows and two female... Vivo Cantando (English translation: I Love Singing) was one of four winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 1969. ... Coin of Salome (daughter of Herodias), queen of Chalcis and Armenia Minor. ... Lenny Kuhr (Born in Eindhoven, February 22, 1950) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. ... Un Jour, Un Enfant (English translation: A Day, A Child) was one of four winning songs in the Eurovision Song Contest 1969, this one being sung in French by Frida Boccara representing France. ... Frida Boccara (b. ... John Kennedy OConnor is an author, entertainment and political commentator, based in the USA. Born in North London, UK, in 1964, he has written for numerous publications as well as writing, creating and producing media events for a number of International Corporations all over the world. ...

Below Lulu explains how she got into the contest, and about what came out (From the BBC Radio 2 special on 50 Years Of The Eurovision Song Contest): A Song for Europe can mean: * A former name of the British national pre-selection competition for the Eurovision Song Contest, which is currently called Making Your Mind Up. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... â€œPeel Sessionsâ€ redirects here. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is by far the most popular station in the UK, reaching some 27% of the available audience in 2006[1]. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in...

Late 1960s-mid-1970s

Only weeks before her Eurovision appearance, Lulu married fellow musical star Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees in a ceremony in Gerrards Cross. Maurice's older brother Barry was opposed to their marriage as he believed them to be too young. Their honeymoon in Mexico had to be postponed because of Lulu's Eurovision commitment. Their careers and his heavy drinking forced them apart, and they divorced, childless, in 1973 but remained on good terms. In 1970 Lulu was back on the US charts with the top 30 hit "Oh Me Oh My (I'm a Fool for You Baby)" (later covered by Aretha Franklin) and a collaboration with the Dixie Flyers on "Hum a Song (From Your Heart)." In 1969, she recorded "New Routes" an album with most of the material recorded at Muscle Shoals studios; several of the songs featured slide guitarist Duane Allman, including a surprisingly haunting version of Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr. Bojangles. A year later she followed with a similar album "Melody Fair". She also recorded 4 other German Language tracks, ("Ich Brauche Deine Liebe", "Wach' ich oder träum' ich', "Warum Tust Du Mir Weh", and "Traurig Aber Wahr") on the Atlantic record label. These songs again, went un-noticed in the German music market. Maurice Ernest Gibb CBE (December 22, 1949 â€“ January 12, 2003), was a musician and singer-songwriter. ... The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers â€” Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb â€” that became one of the most successful musical acts of all time. ... , Gerrards Cross is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. ... The term Eurovision has several meanings: technically, the Eurovision Network created by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). ... Aretha Louise Franklin (born March 25, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. ... The Dixie Flyers were a professional ice hockey team in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Muscle Shoals is a city located in Colbert County, Alabama, USA. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 11,924. ... Example of a bottleneck, with fingerpicks and resonator guitar. ... Howard Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 â€“ October 29, 1971) was an American lead guitarist and noted session musician. ... Jerry Jeff Walker, 2002 Jerry Jeff Walker (born March 16, 1942) is a country music singer. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

After appearing in a successful TV series, "Three Of A Kind", which aired on the BBC in 1967, a format that featured music and comedy, Lulu was given her own TV series in 1968, which ran annually until 1975 under various titles including "Lulu's Back In Town", "Happening For Lulu", "Lulu", and "It's Lulu". She later co-hosted a revived series of "Oh Boy!" for ITV in the early 1980s. Her BBC series featured music and comedy sketches and star guests. Her most famous guest was possibly Jimi Hendrix, who appeared in 1969, swore live on the show and refused to stick to the original songs that had been planned. In 1999, Lulu returned to BBC1 to host their Saturday night lottery/game show "Red Alert" which bombed completely and was very short lived.

In 1972 she starred in the Christmas pantomime Peter Pan at the Palace Theatre, Manchester where the show was a huge success. She repeated her performance at the London Palladium in 1975, and returned to the same role in different London-based productions from 1987 to early 1989. Other notable London stage appearances came in the early 1980s in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Song And Dance" and the National Theatre's "Guys and Dolls". She damaged her vocal cords while performing in the Webber show, requiring surgery that threatened her singing voice. The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890 Pantomime (informally, panto) refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season. ... This article is about the play by J.M. Barrie. ... The Palace Theatre Manchester is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. ... The London Palladium in 2004 The London Palladium is a 2,286 seat West End theatre located off Oxford Street in the City of Westminster. ...

In 1974 she performed the title song in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun. Two slightly different versions of the song were used, at the start and end respectively - the end song actually name-checking James Bond. 007 redirects here. ... The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. ...

Also during 1974, she did a cover of two of David Bowie's classic songs, "The Man Who Sold the World" and "Watch That Man". Bowie himself produced the recordings and played saxophone, and provided back-up vocals on it. There were also rumours that they had a brief love affair at the time. Confusingly, Lulu has both admitted and denied these rumours publicly. Bowie, perhaps characteristically, evaded comment on the subject. David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 1947 January 8) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... The Man Who Sold the World is an album by David Bowie. ... Watch That Man is a song written by David Bowie for the album Aladdin Sane in 1973. ...

"The Man Who Sold the World" peaked at number three on the UK chart, her first UK top 10 hit in five years and also her last until 1986.

In 1977, Lulu married John Frieda, who was previously her hairdresser, and remained with him for twenty years until divorcing him in 1995, having separated in 1991. They had one son, Jordan Frieda later in 1977. She became interested in Eastern mysticism and joined Siddha Yoga Meditation. John Frieda, see John Frieda (products) John Frieda is a hugely successful British celebrity hairdresser who has built up a multi-million pound fortune from hair salons and hair products on the back of his reputation. ... Jordan Frieda is a British born actor who is the son of Lulu and John Frieda. ... Siddha Yoga is a new religious movement[1] that is based in part on Hindu spiritual traditions. ...

Later career

Lulu's singing career waned, but she continued to remain in the public eye, continuing to act and host her own long running radio show on London's Capital Radio station. She also became the celebrity spokes-model for Freeman's fashion catalogue for a long while during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In late 1979, Lulu's career suffered a minor setback when she was in a car accident that nearly took her life, having collided head on with another car on Brooksend Hill. That same year, she recorded for Elton John's label Rocket and seemed about to hit the charts again with the lauded "I Love To Boogie", but surprisingly, despite critical acclaim and much airplay, it did not make the top 75.

In 1981 Lulu returned to the US chart with "I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)", a Top 20 hit which also reached number two on the Adult Contemporary chart despite stalling at number 62 in the UK. The same year, she appeared in the video for Ant Rap alongside Adam And The Ants. She won the Rear of the Year award in 1983 and re-recorded a number of her songs. This included "Shout," which reached the Top 10 in 1986 in the UK, securing her a spot to perform on the popular BBC music programme, Top Of The Pops. In 2002, Lulu achieved the accolade of being one of only two performers (Cliff Richard being the other) to have sung in the Top Of The Pops studio in each of the five decades that the show ran. A follow up single to "Shout", an updated version of Millie's 1960s hit My Boy Lollipop, failed to chart and Lulu stopped recording until 1992, focussing instead on TV, acting and live performances. These tracks were released on the Jive label. Lulu has had hits on the Decca, Columbia, Atco, Polydor, Chelsea, Alfa, Jive, Dome, RCA, Mercury and Universal labels. She has also released singles for GTO, Atlantic, Globe, EMI, Concept, Lifestyle, Utopia and Rocket, and Epic in the USA. For a while, she held the record for the most number of hit labels in the UK charts. Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreciated to just AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream and pop music, without hip-hop or rap since, as per the name, it is geared more towards adults than teens. ... Adam & the Ants were a rock and roll group during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Rear of the Year is a British award for people with a notable posterior. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ... Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb on 14 October 1940) is an English singer, actor and businessman. ... Millie may mean: Millie (pejorative), a pejorative used in Belfast, Northern Ireland Millie (dog), dog owned by Barbara and George H. W. Bush Millie (singer), best known for My Boy Lollipop Millie the Model, a comic book series and its titular character Millie the Echidna, one of the three official... My Boy Lollipop is a song written in the mid-1950s. ...

In 1987, she played Adrian Mole's mother on television (replacing Julie Walters), and in 1993 she made a recording comeback, guesting on the cover version of the Dan Hartman song "Relight My Fire", with boyband Take That. The single reached number one in the British charts and Lulu went on to become Take That's support act for their 1994 tour. By this time, her marriage to John Frieda had completely crumbled, and with the divorce, she released "Independence" in January 1993. She also appeared as herself, an unhappy public relations client of main character Edina Monsoon in two episodes of the hugely popular BBC television programme Absolutely Fabulous. She teamed with French and Saunders many times, including their send up of The Spice Girls (The Sugar Lumps) for Comic Relief in 1997 when she took the role of "Baby Spice", mimicking Emma Bunton, who in turn appeared on Saunders' show Absolutely Fabulous in a self-mocking cameo as herself, a refugee (with Edina's daughter, Saffy) of a prestigious girls' school. The title track from "Independence" just missed the top ten and all four singles released from the album hit the UK charts, as did two later singles released in 1994. Despite these hit singles, the album itself did not make a major impact on the charts, though it seemed to do nothing to diminish her European celebrity. Adrian Albert Mole (born April 2, 1967) is the fictional protagonist in a series of books by Sue Townsend. ... Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe-winning actress. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... Dan Hartman (December 8, 1950 - March 22, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. ... A boy band (American English) or boyband (British English) is a style of somewhat to mostly prefabricated pop group featuring about between three and six young male singer/dancers, but normally five. ... Take That are a British pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ... Lulu can refer to: Lulu (singer), a pop music singer. ... Take That are a British pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Absolutely Fabulous is a British sitcom written by and starring Jennifer Saunders and co-starring Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks. ... French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. ... The Spice Girls were a British vocal girl band. ...

A further album recorded in 1999 provisionally titled Where the Poor Boys Dance was shelved due to unsuccessful supporting singles such as Hurt Me So Bad which charted, but did not make the Top 40.^{[citation needed]} Also in 1999, she co-wrote and recorded a duet with UK pop singer Kavana entitled Heart Like The Sun, but it was not released commercially until Kavana's 2007 greatest hits collection, Special Kind Of Something: The Best of.... Lulu's return to prime time BBC TV with the National Lottery Game Show "Red Alert" proved disastrous and despite a revamp, was quickly shelved. Kavana (real name Anthony Kavanagh, born 4 November 1977, Moston, Manchester, England, UK) is a British singer. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Special Kind Of Something - The Best Of Kavana is a compilation by British singer Kavana. ...

Now officially known as Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, in 2000, she was awarded an OBE by the British Government. Her 2003 autobiography is called I Don't Want to Fight after a hit song she and her brother wrote with hit songwriter Steve DuBerry for Tina Turner, which is a song that Lulu later released in 2003, as part of her The Greatest Hits album. In 2002 her gold album Together was a collection of duets with the likes of Elton John and Paul McCartney, tracks from which were performed in a high profile TV special for ITV, "An Audience With Lulu", which saw Lulu reunite with her first husband Maurice Gibb for a live performance of "First Of May". She followed this with the publication of her autobiography, "I Don't Want To Fight." In 2004 she released the moderately successful^{[citation needed]} album Back on Track and went on a UK-wide tour to celebrate 40 years in the business. In late 2004, Lulu returned to radion, becoming the host of her own 2-hour radio show, on BBC Radio 2, playing an eclectic blend of music from the 1950s to the 2000s, all having to do with the influence of songwriting. In 2005, Lulu released A Little Soul in Your Heart, a collection of soul classics that entered the UK charts at a disappointing No. 28. after a large amount of TV advertising. In March 2006, Lulu launched her official MySpace profile, where she could keep in contact with current fans, and reconnect with old ones. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... I Dont Wanna Fight is a popular song by Tina Turner, which was released as the title track for her autobiographical movie Whats Love Got To Do With It. It reached #9 on the BillBoard Hot 100 and #7 on the UK Singles Chart. ... Grammy nominated songwriter and producer. ... Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) November 26, 1939) is an 11 time Grammy Award-winning (sharing three), American Singer, Dancer, Record Producer, Executive Producer, Film Producer, Actress, Writer, Performer, Songwriter, Author and occasional Painter whose career has spanned from 1956 to present. ... 2003 Lulu album charting her 40 year music career in music from 1964 UK Top Ten Hit Shout through till 2002s Weve Got Tonight a UK Top 5 duet with Ronan Keating. ... 2002 Lulu Album of duets with various artists including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard and Ronan Keating amongst others. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. ... BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBCs national radio stations and is by far the most popular station in the UK, reaching some 27% of the available audience in 2006[1]. It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in... 2005 Album of soul classics performed by Lulu and Produced by Elton John ... MySpace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. ...

She has more recently appeared in the BBC's reality TV show Just the Two of Us in 2006 as a judge, and in late June and early July 2006, appeared on Take That's UK and Ireland tour, to perform their song "Relight My Fire". She appeared on American Idol Season 6 on March 20, 2007 as a mentor for the female contestants, and the following night performed "To Sir, With Love" live. Lulu is currently appearing in the UK as a guest for Jools Holland in his series of concerts. Just the Two of Us logo with presenters Vernon Kay and Tess Daly Just the Two of Us is a British television reality singing contest hosted by Vernon Kay and Tess Daly. ... Take That are a British pop boy band formed by Nigel Martin Smith in Manchester in 1990. ... Relight My Fire is a popular song which was written and released by Dan Hartman in 1979, when it topped the charts for weeks. ... AMERICAN IDOL HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO DEATH OF SIMON ... To Sir, with Love is the theme from the 1967 film To Sir, with Love. ... Julian Miles Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958 in Blackheath, South East London) is an English virtuoso pianist, bandleader, television presenter, architectural eccentric and pop music enthusiast. ...

She continues to act occasionally and starred alongside Tom Courtney and Stephen Fry in the hit British movie, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (3264 Ã— 2448 pixels, file size: 838 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Jools Holland concert at Borde hill on June 23rd 2007 with guest star, Lulu. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 600 pixelsFull resolution (3264 Ã— 2448 pixels, file size: 838 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Jools Holland concert at Borde hill on June 23rd 2007 with guest star, Lulu. ... Thomas William Tom Courtney (born August 17, 1933) is a former American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and television personality. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? is a film written by Ben Steiner, directed by Peter Hewitt and released in 1999. ...

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Lulu is also promoting a range of beauty products on the QVC digital shopping channel in the UK, called "Time Bomb", and appears on the latest television advertisment for Morrisons. For other uses, see Morrison. ...

Despite being Scottish, Lulu has been accused by some sections of the media and public of changing her spoken accent to suit her audience; she mainly speaks in an English accent, sometimes even lapsing into a mid-atlantic accent, and only remembers to speak in a Scottish accent when being interviewed for Scottish television.

Discography

Albums

Something to Shout About was the title of Lulus first LP, released just when she was 15, that launched her into a 40+ year musical career that is still going strong today. ... To Sir, with Love is the soundtrack album to the 1967 film To Sir, with Love. ... Odessa is the Bee Gees fourth album, released as a double LP in 1969. ... 2002 Lulu Album of duets with various artists including Elton John, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard and Ronan Keating amongst others. ... 2003 Lulu album charting her 40 year music career in music from 1964 UK Top Ten Hit Shout through till 2002s Weve Got Tonight a UK Top 5 duet with Ronan Keating. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... 2005 Album of soul classics performed by Lulu and Produced by Elton John ...

Singles

Shout! was a very popular and influential record by The Isley Brothers when it was released in 1959. ... Boom Bang-a-Bang was the British entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 It was sung by Lulu, and written by Peter Warne and Alan Moorhouse. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... Adult contemporary music, frequently abbreciated to just AC, is a type of radio format that plays mainstream and pop music, without hip-hop or rap since, as per the name, it is geared more towards adults than teens. ... The Dixie Flyers were a professional ice hockey team in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Robert Dwayne Womack (born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on March 4, 1944), is an African-American singer, guitarist and songwriter. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Weve Got Tonight (disambiguation). ... Ronan Patrick John Keating (born March 3, 1977 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish pop singer. ...

Filmography

Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... To Sir, with Love (1967) is a British film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social issues in an inner city school, written and directed by James Clavell and based on the memoir of the same name by E.R. Braithwaite. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1970 ([[Rf 1970 == January 1 - The Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC January 2 - The last studio performance of The Beatles oman numerals|MCMLXX]]) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alice (a. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? is a film written by Ben Steiner, directed by Peter Hewitt and released in 1999. ... This article is about the year. ...

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See also

This is a list of number-one hits in the United States by year from the Billboard Hot 100. ... This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazines weekly pop singles chart(s). ...

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Categories: All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since June 2007 | 1948 births | People from Glasgow | Scottish female singers | Scottish songwriters | Scottish actors | Officers of the Order of the British Empire | British Eurovision contestants | Eurovision winners | Scottish singer-songwriters | Living people | Actor-singers | Reality television judges | Mercury Records artists The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... Lys Assia (born March 2, 1924), original name Rosa Mina SchÃ¤rer, was born in Lenzburg?, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland. ... Corry Brokken (b. ... AndrÃ© Claveau (December 17, 1911 - July 14, 2003) was born in Paris and was a very well known singer in France from the 1940s to 1960s. ... Teddy Scholten, a Dutch singer She won the 1959 Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands singing Een beetje (A little bit), with music composed by Dick Schallies and lyrics by Willy van Hemert. ... Jacqueline Boyer (b. ... Jean-Claude Pascal (b. ... Isabelle Aubret (born ThÃ©rÃ¨se Coquerelle on July 27, 1938 in Lille, France) is a French singer. ... Grethe Ingmann and JÃ¸rgen Ingmann are Danish singers and musicians. ... Gigliola Cinquetti (b. ... France Gall (born Isabelle Genevieve Marie Anne Gall on October 9, 1947 in Paris) is a popular French singer. ... Udo JÃ¼rgens Udo JÃ¼rgens (born 30 September 1934 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria as JÃ¼rgen Udo Bockelmann), is a Austrian composer and singer of popular music who has been very successful for more than four decades. ... For the author, see Sandy Shaw. ... Massiel Massiel (real name MarÃa de los Ãngeles SantamarÃa Espinosa) is a Spanish singer. ... Frida Boccara (b. ... Lenny Kuhr (Born in Eindhoven, February 22, 1950) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. ... SalomÃ© (aka: Maria Rosa Marco) (b. ... Dana Rosemary Scallon was born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951 in Islington, London, and brought up in Derry, Northern Ireland. ... SÃ©verine (born Josiane Grizeau, October 10, 1948 in Paris) is a French singer. ... Vicky Leandros (born August 23, 1952 or 1948) is a Greek singer with a long international career. ... Anne-Marie David, born May 23, 1952, is a French singer. ... Abba redirects here. ... A Teach-in is a method of non violent protest. ... Brotherhood of Man was a 1970s British pop vocal group, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1976, with the country-pop-esque Save Your Kisses for Me. // The group was formed by record producer / composer, Tony Hiller, and originally featured the well-travelled vocalist, Tony Burrows and two female... Marie Myriam (born Miriam Lopes, May 8, 1957 in Braga, Portugal) is a French singer. ... Izhar Cohen (born 1951 in Givataim, Israel) is an Israeli singer. ... Alphabeta were a group of Israeli singers who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1978 with Izhar Cohen. ... Avigail Gali Atari (born December 29, 1953 in Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli actress and singer, who won the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Halleluya. ... Milk and Honey were an Israel singing group who performed with Gali Atari at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, where they won with the song Hallelujah. The group consisted of Reuven Gvirtz, Yehuda Tamir, and Shmulik Bilu. ... Johnny Logan Johnny Logan (real name SeÃ¡n Patrick Michael Sherrard) was born in Frankston near Melbourne, Australia, on 13 May 1954 but lives in Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland. ... Bucks Fizz is an English pop group, formed in 1981 to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest that year. ... Nicole (Nicole Seibert, nÃ©e Hohloch; born October 25, 1964, SaarbrÃ¼cken, Germany) is a successful German singer. ... Corinne HermÃ¨s (born November 11, 1961) is a French singer. ... Herreys was a Swedish pop group, consisting of the three, Mormon brothers Richard, Louis, and Per, Herrey. ... Bobbysocks was a Norwegian pop group, that won the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with the song La det swinge. Categories: Musical group stubs | Norwegian musical groups | Eurovision contestants ... Sandra Kim alias Caldarone Sandra is a Belgian singer who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986. ... Johnny Logan Johnny Logan (real name SeÃ¡n Patrick Michael Sherrard) was born in Frankston near Melbourne, Australia, on 13 May 1954 but lives in Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland. ... CÃ©line Marie Claudette Dion OC, OQ, (born March 30, 1968) is a Canadian singer and occasional songwriter and actress. ... Riva was a pop band from Yugoslavia in the late 1980s. ... Toto Cutugno, stage name of Salvatore Cutugno (born July 7, 1943) is an Italian pop singer-songwriter. ... Carola Maria HÃ¤ggkvist (born in HÃ¤gersten, Stockholm on September 8, 1966), better known as simply Carola, is a popular Swedish singer, entertainer and occasional songwriter. ... Linda Martin (born April 17, 1947) is an Irish singer, and TV presenter who started off her musical career when she joined the band Chips in Belfast in 1969 while she was still in school. ... Niamh Kavanagh (born 1968) is an Irish singer. ... Paul Harrington is an Irish musician, who, with Charlie McGettigan, won the Eurovision Song Contest for the Republic of Ireland in 1994. ... Charlie McGettigan is an Irish singer. ... Secret Garden Secret Garden is an Irish-Norwegian duo playing New Instrumental Music, also understood by some as Neo-classical music. ... Eimear Quinn performing at Congratulations Eimear Quinn is an Irish singer. ... Katrina and the Waves were a pop rock band of the 1980s, best known for their smash hit Walking on Sunshine and their 1997 Eurovision Song Contest victory. ... Dana International (Hebrew: ×“× ×” ××™× ×˜×¨× ×©×™×•× ×œ; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen (male) in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1972) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her... Charlotte Perrelli (maiden name Charlotte Nilsson, born October 7, 1974 in Hovmantorp, Sweden) is a Swedish singer. ... Niels and JÃ¸rgen Olsen The Olsen Brothers are a Danish rock/pop music duo, and are brothers JÃ¸rgen (born March 15, 1950) and Noller (Niels, born April 13, 1954) Olsen. ... Tanel Padar (born October 27, 1980) is an Estonian singer. ... Dave Benton (b. ... Soul Militia (known until 2002 as 2XL) is an Estonian hip-hop act, internationally most notable for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 as backing singers for Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, with the song Everybody. The group consists of Lauri Pihlap (Lowry), Sergei Morgun (Semy) and Kaido PÃµldma... An album cover of Marie N Marija Naumova (born June 23, 1973) is a Latvian singer. ... Sertab Erener (born December 4, 1964) is a Turkish pop star. ... Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko (Ukrainian: Ð ÑƒÑÐ»Ð°Ð½Ð° Ð¡Ñ‚ÐµÐ¿Ð°Ð½Ñ–Ð²Ð½Ð° Ð›Ð¸Ð¶Ð¸Ñ‡ÐºÐ¾; born May 24, 1973) is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 from Lviv, Ukraine. ... Elena Paparizou (Greek: ; born January 31, 1982) is a Greek singer, born and raised in Sweden. ... Lordi is a hard rock / heavy metal band from Finland. ... Marija Å erifoviÄ‡ (Serbian Cyrillic: ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸Ñ˜Ð° Ð¨ÐµÑ€Ð¸Ñ„Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ›, born 14 November 1984) is a Serbian singer and the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. ... Massiel Massiel (real name MarÃa de los Ãngeles SantamarÃa Espinosa) is a Spanish singer. ... Eurovision redirects here. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... SalomÃ© (aka: Maria Rosa Marco) (b. ... Frida Boccara (b. ... Lenny Kuhr (Born in Eindhoven, February 22, 1950) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. ... Dana Rosemary Scallon, formerly Dana (born August 30, 1951), is a successful former singer turned Irish politician. ... Wings was a rock music supergroup formed in August 1971, after the breakup of The Beatles, by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney. ... Live and Let Die is the 8th film in the British James Bond series and the first to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. ... link title Live and Let Die, from the James Bond film and soundtrack Live and Let Die, is one of Sir Paul McCartneys most successful singles. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ... 007 redirects here. ... The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. ... The Spy Who Loved Me is the 10th film in the James Bond series and the third to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent James Bond. ... Original The Spy Who Loved Me soundtrack cover, featuring Nobody Does It Better Nobody Does It Better is a James Bond theme used for the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and released Single EP, Soundtrack Album. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...

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