Released album “Decade 1967-1976”.
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Lulu
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actress and television personality whose career has spanned six decades. Her debut single, a cover version of The Isley Brothers song "Shout", reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart in 1964. In 1967, she rose to international prominence after appearing in the film To Sir, with Love, singing the theme song, the melody written by Mark London…
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business · Scottish singer (born 1948) · actor · singer · entrepreneur · film actor · songwriter · autobiographer · model · musician · also Lulu, Lulu (singer), Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie
Born 3 November 1948 · Q229716
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2024· 1 entry
2023· 2 entries
BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows Pakistan flag placed above Indian Flag at LuLu Mall, Kerala” False.
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Was Lulu's first tour since 2019, an ambitious and extensive return to her live performance schedule
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2022· 5 entries
The Quint rated the claim “The video shows a Navratri celebration in Lucknow's LuLu Mall.” False.
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Alt News rated the claim “Hindus arrested for reciting namaz at LuLu Mall” False.
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FACTLY rated the claim “Three Hindu persons were arrested by the UP police for reciting Namaz inside the Lulu Mall” MISLEADING.
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Lulu Mall Chairman's driver drove Pinnarayi Vijayan at the inauguration ceremony” False.
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India Today rated the claim “LuLu Group chairman Yusuff Ali drove Yogi Adityanath during the inauguration of LuLu Mall in Lucknow. However, when the Thiruvananthapuram LuLu Mall was inaugurated, Ali’s chauffeur drove the Kerala CM in a buggy.” Mostly false.
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2021· 1 entry
Released album “Gold”.
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2017· 1 entry
Lulu was Guest of Honour at the City Lit Awards, celebrating the outstanding work and achievements of various students and staff from across the college, as well as the transformation adult learning can bring
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2015· 1 entry
Released album “Making Life Rhyme”.
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2009· 1 entry
Provided comment and support to the six acts shortlisted to represent the UK at Eurovision 2009 on BBC1 TV
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “Lulu on the Dancefloor”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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2007· 2 entries
Released album “The Atco Sessions: 1969-72”.
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Appeared in the UK as a guest for Jools Holland in a series of concerts and features, and on Holland's CD release "Best of Friends", performing "Where Have All the Good Guys Gone
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “To Sir With Love”.
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As a judge, alongside Trevor Nelson, CeCe Sammy and Stewart Copeland
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2005· 3 entries
Released album “A Little Soul in Your Heart”.
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Lulu released A Little Soul in Your Heart, a collection of soul classics that entered the UK Albums Chart at No
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Released album “To Sir With Love! The Complete Mickie Most Recordings”.
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2004· 3 entries
Released album “Back on Track”.
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Released album “The Complete Decca Years, Volume 1: 1964–1965”.
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Released the album Back on Track and went on a UK-wide tour to celebrate forty years in the music business
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2003· 4 entries
Released album “The Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “I Don't Want to Fight”.
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Released album “To Sir With Love: The Best of 1967-68”.
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Lulu was full of praise for him and told the BBC that they had been very close
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2002· 3 entries
Released album “Together”.
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Was titled I Don't Want to Fight after the hit song she and her brother wrote with songwriter Steve DuBerry for Tina Turner, a song that Lulu herself released in 2003 as part of her album The Greatest Hits
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Achieved her most recent top-ten entry on the UK Singles Chart when her collaboration with Irish singer Ronan Keating, "We've Got Tonight", peaked at number four
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2000· 3 entries
Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to music, entertainment and charity
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Was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II
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Lulu sat on the 5,387,862nd and final classic Mini when it came off the production line
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1999· 3 entries
Was dedicated to Lulu's life and career
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Released album “The Best Of”.
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Lulu returned to BBC One to host the Saturday night National Lottery game show Red Alert
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1997· 1 entry
When she took the role of "Baby Spice", mimicking Emma Bunton
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “From Crayons to Perfume: The Best of Lulu”.
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1993· 6 entries
Released album “Independence”.
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The song "I Don't Wanna Fight", co-written by Lulu, her brother Billy Lawrie, and Steve DuBerry, became an international hit for Tina Turner
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Released album “The Man Who Sold the World”.
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Lulu had her first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart: "Relight My Fire", a collaboration with Take That
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When she recorded "Relight My Fire" with Take That, she and Jason Orange had "a very brief dalliance
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Lulu made a recording comeback with the single "Independence", which reached No
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1989· 4 entries
Lulu and her manager of 25 years, Marion Massey, parted company
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Released album “I'm a Tiger”.
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And 1990 she voiced the title character in the animated series Nellie the Elephant on ITV
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As she was frustrated that she was no longer seen as a recording artist and Massey was unable to further her recording career
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1986· 1 entry
In the UK, securing her a spot on Top of the Pops
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1985· 1 entry
Her first autobiography, Lulu : Her Autobiography, was published
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Sounds Healthy From De L’Ora”.
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Shout”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Take Me to Your Heart Again”.
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Released album “Historia de la música rock - 39”.
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1981· 3 entries
Returned to the US chart with "I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)", a Top 20 hit that also reached No
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Released album “Lulu”.
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Joined other Eurovision winners at a charity gala held in Norway, and she was a panellist at the 1989 UK heat, offering views on two of the competing eight entries
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1979· 1 entry
Recorded for Elton John's label The Rocket Record Company and released "I Love to Boogie"
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1978· 1 entry
Released album “Don’t Take Love for Granted”.
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1977· 1 entry
Lulu became interested in Siddha Yoga and married hairdresser John Frieda
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Heaven and Earth and the Stars”.
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1975· 3 entries
Lulu herself hosted the BBC's A Song for Europe, the qualifying heat for the Eurovision Song Contest, in which the Shadows performed six shortlisted songs
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Released ep “Seasons in the Sun & Other Hits”.
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Released the disco single "Take Your Mama For A Ride", which peaked in the UK chart at No
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1974· 3 entries
Performed the title song for the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun
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To perform the title song for the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun
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And Lulu's Big Show in 1993 taped at Glasgow's Tramway
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1973· 2 entries
With divorce proceedings initiated in 1974
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Singing "All the Things You Are" and "Happy Heart"
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “The Most of Lulu, Volume 2”.
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Lulu made a brief but memorable appearance, alongside Ringo Starr, on Monty Python's Flying Circus
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “The Most of Lulu”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Melody Fair”.
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Released album “To Love Somebody”.
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Released album “New Routes”.
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1969· 4 entries
Lulu recorded New Routes, a new album, at Muscle Shoals studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama: several of the songs, including a version of Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mr
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Released album “The World of Lulu”.
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A show recorded in Sweden with the Young Generation, 1970's The Young Generation Meet Lulu (also recorded in Sweden), and Bruce Forsyth Meets Lulu in 1975
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Released album “Lulu’s Album”.
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1967· 5 entries
Released album “Love Loves to Love Lulu”.
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Released album “Lulu!”.
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Rose to international prominence after appearing in the film To Sir, with Love, singing the theme song, the melody written by Mark London, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States for five consec
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To Sir, with Love, a British vehicle for Sidney Poitier
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In a successful TV series Three of a Kind, that featured music and comedy, Lulu was given her own BBC1 TV series in 1968, which ran annually until 1975 under various titles, including Lulu's Back in Town, Happening for L
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1966· 3 entries
Made regular appearances on BBC1's Stramash
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Lulu left Decca and signed with Columbia, to be produced by Mickie Most
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Lulu toured Poland with the Hollies, being the first British female singer to appear live behind the Iron Curtain
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1965· 1 entry
Released album “Something to Shout About”.
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1964· 1 entry
Under the wing of Marion Massey, she was signed to Decca Records
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1948· 2 entries
Born 1948-11-03.
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And grew up in Glasgow, where she attended Thomson Street Primary School and Onslow Drive School
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