Lulu has claimed David Bowie recommended that she ‘lose some weight’ when they worked together.
The Shout singer, 75, who is touring the UK later this month, has opened up about her relationship with the star in her new memoir If Only You Knew, which will be released on September 25.
She confessed that Bowie had become ‘nocturnal’ when they were recording together, which she later found out was caused by cocaine, according to the Sun.
She said: ‘I had two days off and David and I were going to record The Man Who Sold the World and Watch That Man.
‘”Maybe you could lose a bit of weight,” David said nonchalantly as we sat together on the first night. Ouch.’
The pair collaborated on a handful of songs over the years but his career and spiralling drug use meant an album was never completed.
Scots singer Lulu has claimed that David Bowie recommended that she ‘lose some weight’ when they worked together
The Shout singer, 75, who is touring the UK later this month, has opened up about her relationship with the star in her new memoir If Only You Knew, which will be released on September 25
Their relationship may have been short-lived, Lulu has previously described it as ‘amazing’ and told how sexual chemistry brought them together.
But she explained how music also united them – and revealed there’s a cache of lost songs that were recorded during their time together.
The tracks have never been heard and – nobody knows where they are.
DailyMail has contacted Lulu’s representatives for a comment.
The Ziggy Stardust singer died in 2016, two days after the release of his 26th and final studio album, Blackstar.
Even now Lulu still performs her cover of his song The Man Who Sold the World.
In 2017 she released her autobiography, I Don’t Want To Fight, in which she touched on their relationship.
But she admitted: ‘I should never have written an autobiography, I think at 75, I might be more vulnerable than I’ve ever been.
She confessed that Bowie had become ‘nocturnal’ when they were recording together, which she later found out was caused by cocaine, according to the Sun
‘Maybe you could lose a bit of weight,’ David said nonchalantly as we sat together on the first night. Ouch’
‘I always wanted to be Miss Perfect. And my mother always told me it doesn’t cost you anything to smile. So I’ve always done that. To be vulnerable is to be very real. And I think I’ve avoided that. I don’t let everybody in.’
Reflecting on their relationship, Lulu told the Telegraph Magazine that Bowie’s drug-heavy lifestyle drove her away.
She left him for celebrity hairstylist John Frieda, who she married in 1976 and had her son, Jordan, with before splitting in 1991.
Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, in Glasgow, burst onto the music scene in 1964 at just 15 with her hit Shout when John Lennon and Paul McCartney named it as their favourite record of the week.
In 2000 she was appointed an OBE and in 2021 was upgraded to a CBE. Mid-pandemic, Lulu wasn’t able to receive the honour from a member of the Royal family.
But she had met the now King in his capacity of Prince of Wales in 2000.
She said: ‘In a strange way I’ve felt connected to him all my life. We were born in the same month in the same year. When we met, he was totally Prince Charming.’
Lulu has spoken about her passionate affair with David Bowie in the 1970s and how she was mesmerised by the iconic pop pioneer
Lulu is now preparing for Glastonbury which she’ll perform at for the final time after announcing her retirement from touring.
Her set will include Shout, although she joked: ‘I thought I’d leave it out!
‘No, the main thing is you go to Glastonbury and give them what they want. That song is a part of me. You give them that part of you. They’re happy and you’re happy that they are.
‘It’s an exchange. Bringing people joy is what I do. It’s what I get for doing it. I love it, I look forward to it. How lucky are we, to be in the business of music?’
