Lulu – Shout

In 1964, under the wing of Marion Massey, Lulu was signed to Decca Records. When she was only fifteen, her version of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout”, credited to ‘Lulu & the Luvvers’ and delivered in a raucous but mature voice, peaked at No. 7 on the UK chart.

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie in Glasgow, Scotland on November 3, 1948. As a teenager, she toured the northern clubs with her band, the Luvvers. After her initial success with a cover of “Shout” reaching #7 in 1964, Lulu went on to establish herself as one of the biggest-selling British female singers of the 1960s.

She made her film début in To Sir, with Love (1967), starring Sidney Poitier, and performed the title song, which went to No. 1 in the United States, but was only released as a B-side in the United Kingdom with the A-side, “Let’s Pretend”, making #11. She was one of four joint winners of the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest with “Boom Bang-a-Bang”. In 1969, she married The Bee Gees member Maurice Gibb, and moved more into family entertainment, building on the success of her self-titled BBC television show. She recorded a version of David Bowie’s song “The Man Who Sold the World”, which reached #3 in the UK charts (it hadn’t charted for Bowie), and sang the title theme to the James Bond feature The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), both in 1974.

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Lulu And The Luvvers - Shout

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“Shout” a fost compusă de O’Kelly Isley, Jr.Rudolph Isley și Ronald Isley (Isley Brothers) în 1958.
Lulu a înregistrat piesă în 1964.

Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, (Lulu) s-a născut la 3 Noiembrie 1948, în Lennox Castle, Glasgow.  “Shout”, o piesă a grupului Isley Brothers,  a fost primul ei mare succes în 1964. În aceea perioada ea făcea parte dintr-o formație numită Luvvers. După alte câteva succese, se decide să aibe o carieră solo.

În 1966 face un turneu alături de grupul Hollies, care a inclus și un concert în Polonia. Lulu fiind prima cântăreața din Marea Britanie care a cântat în lagărul comunist.

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