#Lulu to sir with love mod

The thing is, I'm still here and kicking with the music I care about. 'I've had a long career,' she adds, 'but it's not all been sweet. RM G8H5JJEighteen-year-old singer Lulu puts her signature to the contract signed by writer-producer-director James Clavell for a top acting role in the new. 'This is my chance to get back to my roots, to do a very stripped club show,' she says. While she had it in mind to make a show like this happen for years, only the final involvement of Shaffer nailed it. career toggled between the glitz of her TV work, which cast her as a kind of British Cher, and the raw soul of songs she loved. That didn't bother her as much as the fact that her U.K.

#Lulu to sir with love mod

But, like her fellow British 'birds' of her Mod era, Sandy Shaw and Cilla Black, she never made it across the pond. The Story Behind Lulu’s ‘To Sir With Love,’ Which Topped the Hot 100 in 1967 'Saturday Night Live' closed its first episode of the Trump administration with a musical farewell to President. But in my mind I know they will still live on and. 'With how I looked, and he being the man from Mars, we were the odd couple,' she says.Īlong the way, Lulu married famous men, including Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, who drank heavily at the time, and celeb hairdresser John Frieda. Those schoolgirl days of telling tales and biting nails are gone. She also cut songs and had a fling with David Bowie. I was the kid,' she says), to the Monkees' Davey Jones ('we did some heavy petting. Over the years, Lulu has had associations with every major name in pop and rock - from Hendrix, who appeared on her British TV show in 1969 ('he would pat me on the head.