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Article: Welcome to Lulu land; Since her first hit at 15, she's had two failed marriages, an affair with David Bowie and toyboy lovers barely older than her son. MARY RIDDELL meets LULU and asks what she's got to shout about now.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2005
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Byline: MARY RIDDELL
You cannot deny that Lulu is a trouper. To say that it is hot in the photographic studio does no justice to the bone-meltingly, sub-Saharan temperature of a London Indian summer day. A cactus would not care to have its portrait taken in these conditions, let alone a pop queen with a midlife image to maintain.
But is Lulu complaining? Not a bit. First, she despatches a driver to collect her own air conditioning unit from her home in Maida Vale.
Then she poses in a sweater that would insulate a mackerel trawlerman from a force nine westerly roaring up the German Bight.
Occasionally she bursts into song, or complains ...