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Lulu developed her love and passion for music at a young age, making her debut stage performance at the age of four. At the age of 14 the singer was invited to join the local pop group the Gleneagles and begun honing her live performance skills by playing shows in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. The group ultimately caught the attention of Marlon Massey who proposed the Lulu moniker and changed the band name to the Luvvers, later securing a record deal with Decca Records. Lulu and the Luvvers’ debut release was the Isley Brother’s single “Shout”, which rose to No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart. The singles “Can’t Hear You No More”, “Here Comes the Night”, and “Satisfied” all followed enjoying chart success, after which Lulu went solo.
After signing with Columbia Records Lulu embarked on a series of tours before making her on-screen debut in the British coming-of-age drama “To Sir, With Love”. The film proved a huge success during which time Lulu released to single “To Sir, With Love” which topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and led to a reissue of “Shout”. Following the release the singer earned a string of successes with the singles “Best of Both Worlds”, “The Boat I Row”, “Let’s Pretend”, and “Love Loves to Love, Love” in 1967. Continuing to both act and sing, Lulu appeared in her own television series entitled “Lulu’s Back in Town” which would air until 1975. More hit singles followed including “Me the Peaceful Heart”, “Boy” and “I’m a Tiger”, after which Lulu won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969 which spawned the UK No. 1 “Boom Bang-a-Bang”.
The U.S. album “New Routes” arrived later in 1969 making further inroads into the U.S. market, after which Lulu appeared in the cult British TV special “Cucumber Castle” alongside Spike Milligan and Eleanor Bron. The full-length “Melody Fair” followed in the U.S. spawning the hit single “Oh Me Oh My (I’m a Fool for You, Baby)”. Shortly afterwards the singer recorded the theme music for the James Bond film “The Man with the Golden Gun” after which Lulu recorded a cover of the David Bowie hit “The Man Who Sold the World”, with Bowie on production and saxophone duties.
Following somewhat of a slump throughout the ’80s, Lulu enjoyed a resurgence in the ‘90s with the 1993 full-length “Independence”, featuring a popular duet with soul Icon Bobby Womack entitled “I’m Back for More”. In another collaboration, Lulu worked alongside Take That, topping the charts with the hit single “Relight My Fire”, before making regular television appearances alongside comics Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. In honour of such an impressive career Lulu was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000, after which she released the collaborative album “Together” featuring duets with the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Sting, and Cliff Richard.
The Laura Cox Band
The Underworld, Camden
12/10/2018
There are many “have-a-go” bedroom guitar heroes regularly showing off their skills on YouTube but there are not too many prepared to leave the bedroom, put the work in and take it to the bigger stage. French national Laura Cox started posting her guitar solos on YouTube ten years ago when she was 17 years old, amassing 70 million views with 300,000 subscribers. Laura met another young guitarist, Mathieu Albiac in 2013 and they started writing together but it wasn’t until 2015 when François C. Delacoudre (Bass) and Antonin Guérin (Drums) completed the band with an excellent rhythm section.
The Underworld gig was the final date of the Band’s first U.K tour and with the exception of this London date, they had been headlining. For this date, however, they filled the support slot for ex-Europe front man Kee Marcello’s band. This was possibly the first time I had been to a gig where the support band pulled a larger crowd than the main act.
The Band was given a one hour slot which was certainly more rock than blues but they immediately captured the audience’s full attention with the title track from the Band’s debut album, Hard Blues Shot, which was released last year. The number starts as you would imagine it should end with a drum crescendo but then we got a tasty bass riff followed by an AC/DC rhythm from Mathieu Albiac before Laura appears from the side of the stage kicking in with a Johnny B Goode style riff. Without taking breath the rocky Going Down follows, again with a driving bass from the animated Francois C. Delacoudre and Mathieu and Laura working together beautifully on rhythm and lead respectively. Too Nice For Rock ‘n’ Roll gives Laura the opportunity to invite the audience to interact with some hand clapping. Foxy Lady is given a nice treatment without Laura finding it necessary to mimic Hendrix which so often is the case these days. Laura brings it down a little for Bad Luck Blues followed by the radio friendly Good Ol’ Days. Each band member was given full freedom to express themselves throughout the set and Mathieu Albiac was allowed to express his during the The Australian Way with some very impressive guitar licks.
This was a very impressive introduction to the UK from a young lady going in the right direction with purpose who will hopefully gain the respect she truly deserves in time.
philhonley
Lulu is a pop singer who's rocked everyone's lives for a very long time. She is classified as pop and pop rock music, which gives her a big crowd to please. From the 1960's until the late 2000's Lulu has proved to keep going with life and entertain everyone. She has fully adapted to the changes across the years and has had fans stick with her from the beginning, and also picked up quite a few fans along the way. She still continues to gain new lovers of her music today as well.
Her venues range from anything to simple to extravagant and her music gets everyone in a great pumped up mood. She has a few blues songs, but with her catchy voice and tone, it picks you up instead of pulling you down. Her visuals are great, no matter what her age is, she has proven to give a beautiful performance.
Her voice has not changed much throughout the years, she has only adapted her songs and beat to the current time of the ages. She has proven that no matter how old you are you can still sing and give people a wonderful experience live, no matter what the age you are either!
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