{"id":17269,"date":"2017-05-25T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=17269"},"modified":"2017-05-25T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T23:27:10","slug":"video-exclusive-interview-lulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2017\/05\/video-exclusive-interview-lulu\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#038; EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: LULU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>VIDEO FEATURE &amp; WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Musician: <strong>LULU<\/strong><br \/>\nMusic Video: \u201c<strong>Faith in You<\/strong>\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oukj0JvRd9w\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><strong>ICONIC \u201cTO SIR WITH LOVE\u201d SINGER LULU WILL PERFORM AT B.B. KING\u2019S IN NEW YORK\u2014MAY 30, 2017<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Lulu started young, as a 15 year-old Scottish soul sensation. No wonder James Brown said, \u201cThe first time I heard her sing, I knew we were born in the same pond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Probably best known in America for her 1967 number one \u201cTo Sir With Love,\u201d (also starring with Sidney Poitier in <em>To Sir With Love<\/em>), 1969 soulful \u201cOh Me Oh My (I\u2019m a Fool for You Baby), 1974 James Bond theme \u201cThe Man with the Golden Gun,\u201d the Bowie collaboration \u201cThe Man Who Sold the World,\u201d and the 1993 hit \u201cRelight My Fire\u201d with Take That.<br \/>\nBorn into the tough world of Glasgow\u2019s working class tenements in 1948, she was raised plain Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie. And after 51 years in the music business, she seems to have an amazing attitude to music and life.<\/p>\n<p>Her most recent album, <em>Making Life Rhyme<\/em>, contains songs she has written\u2014and gives us a glimpse of where she is not in her life. She is content, happy and she wants to keep moving forward. \u201cI am grateful to be where I am,\u201d she says. \u201cI am one of the luckiest people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Elton John says, \u201cLu is one of the great vocalists that the UK has produced. She is sounding better than ever. Her love of current music and artists has kept her relevant, and, she is held in high esteem from the great vocalists of her time and the present day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lulu is set for a 40-date tour in 2017, and she plays B.B. King Blues Club &amp; Grill in New York this Monday, May 30, 2017. Her stellar band includes Geoff Dugmore (drums), Louis Riccardi (guitars\/vocals), Darren Hodson (guitars\/vocals), Rick Krivey (keyboards\/vocals), and Jordan Brooks (bass).<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Lulu about her amazing career in music, and that wonderful perspective she has gained through time and experience\u2014her gratitude. We truly hope you are lucky enough to see her perform live.<\/p>\n<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17276\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-5.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu-5\" width=\"660\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-5.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-5-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>LULU Web-Exclusive Interview<\/h1>\n<h3>with\u00a0<em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0magazine publisher, Merlin David<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your musical roots.<\/strong><br \/>\nMy musical root is all American. Never anything English\u2014ever. I was a teenager when the Beatles came out. This was all pre-Beatles. I only watched American movies\u2014only bought American records. From a very early age, my ears were trained on American music. My first hit record was \u201cShout,\u201d which was an Isley Brothers song. Then, interestingly enough, I\u2019m in a movie with Sidney Poitier, and it\u2019s about black Americans. What\u2019s more is that I was able to act in such a landmark movie. Let\u2019s face it\u2014you couldn\u2019t have made that movie in America. Back then, they didn\u2019t usually have records from films. I sang this song in the film, and it made it up the charts. I\u2019ve had an amazing career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So wonderful to hear you\u2019ll be performing at B.B. King\u2019s this Monday.<\/strong><br \/>\nI was invited to play the B.B. King blues club in America\u2014by a few interesting American musicians. Just to do a show there, it made me think more about going back to my roots. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m a blues singer, but I was influenced by these amazing musicians.<br \/>\n<strong>Which musicians?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray Charles was the first person to really knock my head off. He was my god. I loved Bobby Darin because he was a white guy who could sound like Ray Charles. All my influences were Big Mama Thornton, Stax and Motown. It really comes from gospel\u2014black American gospel music. It rolls a little into country, a little into rock \u2019n\u2019 roll. Well, a lot into tock \u2018\u2019n\u2019 roll\u2014that whole mixture. When I made my first record, \u201cShout,\u201d I would sing it more like the Isley Brothers. They would make it very short. It would have to be three minutes\u2014to be able to be played on the radio. First album Shout\u2014short 3-min songs. I became a pop singer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us how the album, <\/strong><strong><em>Making Life Rhyme<\/em><\/strong><strong>, evolved.<\/strong><br \/>\nI did a few clubs, working with my band\u2014my drummer Geoff [Dugmore] spoke to a lot of musician friends saying \u201cShe\u2019s got to do an album a little bit more like where she came from.\u201d And that\u2019s really how it started. I started writing songs very late. We did a demo of a few blues songs, and my manager took it to the record company. There was one particular song in there that I had recorded before. They said, we like the new songs better than the old ones. So it didn\u2019t turn out to be a blues album after all. Strange, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>When did you start writing songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy brother and I write together. The first song I ever wrote with him was a big hit for Tina Turner all over the world in 1993. It was called \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Fight.\u201d I had been through a very dark period in my life, where I was getting divorced. I literally thought \u2026 (<em>pauses<\/em>) I was in a very dark place. Someone close to me said, \u2018what are you going to do now.\u2019 As John Miles said (<em>sings<\/em>), \u2018Music was my first love, and it will be my last.\u2019 That\u2019s a very good song for most musicians. I said, \u2018I wanna get back into the recording business.\u2019 He said, \u2018Well you\u2019re going to have to write.\u2019 I thought\u2014I can\u2019t write\u2014because my brother [Billy Lawrie] <em>is <\/em>a writer, and he\u2019s had a lot of success with it. Sade actually showed \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Fight\u201d to Tina because they were making a movie [<em>What\u2019s Love Got to Do with It<\/em>] and they were looking for a single. She hadn\u2019t had a hit record in America for a long time. This song was huge for her all over the world. Somebody told me Tina said, \u2018That\u2019s my life story\u2014that\u2019s my life.\u2019 I thought, \u2018Honey, it\u2019s my life, not yours.\u2019 (<em>Laughs<\/em>) But I would never say that to her. I love her to death. What a fabulous thing she did for me\u2014because then people looked at me differently.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17281\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lulu-home.jpg\" alt=\"lulu-home\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lulu-home.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lulu-home-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your early life.<\/strong><br \/>\nBilly\u2019s in publishing. He\u2019s co-written with so many people. He\u2019s a music man. Our family is very musical. My father wasn\u2019t a professional singer but he had a voice like Pavarotti. Where I come from everybody sings. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) In Scotland, you sit around at parties and everybody has to take a turn singing. I come from a working class background\u2014was not sophisticated in any way. I left school just <em>before <\/em>I was 15. I certainly didn\u2019t have a formal education. You might say that I was self-educated. I was 15 when I had my first hit record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was that first hit record?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cShout\u201d\u2014by the Isley Brothers. (<em>Sings the song<\/em>) That was here\u2014in this country. When I walk down the street, and people go (<em>sings<\/em>) \u2018Well \u2026 you make me wanna \u2026\u2019 People sing as I pass them by. In America, they know me more for \u201cTo Sir with Love.\u201d But I had a lot of hit records before that. I think I was 16 when I did the movie, and the record came out when I was 17. I had already had two years of a very busy singing career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about the song \u201cFaith in You.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nThe whole album is me talking about how I see my life. I\u2019ve been around for a long time, and worked with some of the greats\u2014Elton John, Paul McCartney, David Bowie. Today I realize it\u2019s an industry mainly for young people. It\u2019s very hard to keep your head above water, to sustain\u2014to be relevant for so many decades. You have to have a life\u2014and I have had a life. I have been up. I have been down. I have had tremendous success and failures. I have been married twice. I have a son and two grandchildren. I\u2019m still doing this because I love it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17274\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu-2\" width=\"660\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-2-300x399.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>How have you found balance?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen it comes to writing, I\u2019ve done a lot of introspection with a great master of yoga since 1984. I read every self-help book out there. I\u2019ve really gone inside, and I\u2019ve changed over the years. The one constant is the music. I found a voice. I\u2019m able to talk about how grateful I am. With my shows, I am able to talk more\u2014and better than I ever did before. I\u2019m not a great talker, but it\u2019s more authentic now. It\u2019s having had experience. My experience is in this album. And it\u2019s a good story. Some people ask, \u2018Why did you choose to sing \u2026 (<em>sings<\/em>) <em>I\u2019m a poor Wayfaring Stranger, travelin\u2019 through this world of woe\u2026<\/em>\u2019 It\u2019s because I am the age I am. When you\u2019re young famous pop singer, you think you\u2019re invincible. But life teaches you\u2014that you\u2019re not. I\u2019ve lived, and I put it all in this album. Even the song \u201cCry\u201d about men not being able to cry\u2014not to have tears\u2014unable to relate to different things in life. At the same time, not just miserable but optimistic and grateful for what I\u2019ve got\u2014and it\u2019s a happy story. In the end, I have survived. A lot of my peers are not around anymore. I have a real deep gratitude for what I have today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It comes with the wisdom of time.<\/strong><br \/>\nOnly experience! I\u2019m always up for listening to young musicians. My band is young. But they also have this appreciation for what came before them. There\u2019s only one other female singer in this country that was really driven by the music the way I was\u2014Dusty Springfield. She\u2019s the one woman I related to in this country. But I much preferred male singers to female singers. I hated that soprano voice. I much prefer Bonnie Raitt. I related more to the bands. I was only influenced by black American music. And then the Beatles came along. They (and the Rolling Stones) were influenced by the same people I was influenced by. And today, Etta James, Christina Aguilera, Beyonce, Bruno Mars\u2014he is like a Motown revue. From back then until now, there are still young musicians where I can hear that basic influence. I think it\u2019s fascinating. I found myself in Muscle Shoals working with Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin and Jerry Wexler. Duane Allman played on the album. I had Dr. John. It was pretty incredible of who all I\u2019ve gotten to work with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What made you want to write songs?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was basically my brother told me I had to. I hadn\u2019t made an album for several years, and he said, \u2018You\u2019ve got to write songs.\u2019 It was really necessity being the mother of invention. Then Wynonna Judd recorded a song. Cher held a song for a year. But it\u2019s kind of great that it opened a door for me. I used to look at the songs mostly from the outside, and now I find them on the inside. It\u2019s amazing to have had that rebirth. I think you have to love what you do. You can\u2019t give up. Music makes the blood course through my veins.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17273\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-3.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu-3\" width=\"660\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-3.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-3-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-3-300x408.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Do you write with instruments?<\/strong><br \/>\nNo. It\u2019s just my voice, and my ears. You\u2019ve either got ears or you don\u2019t. You can train your ears, and you can train your eye. But it\u2019s something really that you have. My brother, Billy, is the same way. He is so creative. Elton and Billy are the only two people I know who will make up a song instantly. They don\u2019t even have to sit at a piano\u2014either of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember the first time you heard one of your songs on the radio?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was just 15 years old\u2014hard to take it in. When all this stuff was going on with me back then, I wasn\u2019t even present. I was rushing ahead of myself. People have to remind me of things that happened back then. I was so young, and there was so much going on. It was a bit of a whirlwind. I\u2019m not laid back. I had to start meditating in 1984 because I needed to do it. I was probably looking for it in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us how meditating helped.<\/strong><br \/>\nI meditate every day. It grounds me. There\u2019s an amazing book, <em>The Untethered Soul<\/em>. It explains the need for meditation. You get that awakening\u2014you have more of a desire to live a yogic way of life. So my whole life now is really about service. Before I do anything, I pray\u2014let me just do your will. It isn\u2019t something that I talk to everybody about. But it grounded my life and has guided my life. It\u2019s all part and parcel of life. I have a very spiritual life. The music, the making of music, having gratitude and being able to give it\u2014it\u2019s all part of who I am. When you get so much, like I\u2019ve had in my life\u2014then you have to give it. You can only keep it, if you give it. I am so thrilled to get up and have the energy. I love what I do, I\u2019m grateful to be where I am. I am really one of the luckiest people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 5 Musicians\u00a0who inspired you to become a musician?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe top of the list is Ray Charles. It\u2019s hard to follow him. I always loved B.B. King, Big Bill Broonzy, Big Mama Thornton. I also loved Ella Fitzgerald\u2014my parents used to play Ella. Then I got into Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine. I loved gospel. Etta James. I love Brenda Lee\u2019s voice because I didn\u2019t like girly voices. Carla and Rufus Thomas. <em>Anything<\/em> from Motown and <em>anything<\/em> from Stax\u2014all of that music.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17272\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-4.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu-4\" width=\"660\" height=\"980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-4.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-4-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-4-300x445.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>What are your Top 5 favorite albums of all time?<\/strong><br \/>\nRay Charles\u2014every part of him\u2014whether it was country and western, gospel, or that duet with Betty Carter (<em>sings both parts<\/em>) \u201cBaby, It\u2019s Cold Outside.\u201d From that to \u201cWhat\u2019d I Say\u201d\u2014he was a country singer, a bluesy jazz singer, gospel, a great piano player and band leader. And the Raelettes\u2014oh my, I would wear that out. My father was not a fan. <em>No<\/em>. He\u2019d say, \u2018What is that noise? That man\u2019s in a lot of pain.\u2019 (<em>Laughs<\/em>) He didn\u2019t know what he didn\u2019t know. Definitely every Ray Charles record\u2014(<em>sings<\/em>) \u2018night and day\u201d\u2014\u201cI believe to my soul.\u2019 I just wore all those records down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about a time you recorded or played live on stage with someone you admired.<\/strong><br \/>\nWe took one of Macca\u2019s [Paul McCartney\u2019s] songs. My brother and another young guy and I were messing around with it: (<em>sings<\/em>) \u2018Someone\u2019s knockin\u2019 at the door, somebody\u2019s ringin\u2019 the bell.\u2019 We changed it around, and put a little rap in it. I let Macca hear it, and he said, \u2018Gee, you make me sound cool. (<em>Laughs)<\/em>\u2019 I said, \u2018Could you come in and sing a little bit?\u2019 And there he was with me in the studio. I was thinking \u2018This is crazy. He never lets people rewrite his songs.\u2019 Another one of those moments was when I was on Saturday night television all the time. I didn\u2019t think I was cool, and David Bowie, at the time he was doing <em>Ziggy Stardust<\/em>, wanted to record with me because he loved my voice. There I was\u2014working with David Bowie, and I thought this is the weirdest thing. We\u2019re like the oddest couple.\u2019 The one thing that united us is music. \u201cThe Man Who Sold the World\u201d was huge over here but I don\u2019t think it came out over there in the States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was the song \u201cTo Sir with Love\u201d written?<\/strong><br \/>\nI was very disappointed when I agreed to do the film. My manager insisted that I sing the title song. But they couldn\u2019t care less. It didn\u2019t matter to them, but it mattered to me. They played me some rubbish songs I was in tears about. So I literally sat down with Mark London, and made him write. We sent the script to Don Black. Mark and I knew him. We knew how great he was as a lyricist. We were desperate to get something that was right\u2014feel like it was handmade. We did it in Holland Park. We sat at Marion\u2019s [Massey] piano\u2014in her front room. I said, \u2018<em>please<\/em>, let me sit here with you\u2014you <em>can <\/em>write something.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17271\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-6.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu-6\" width=\"660\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-6.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-6-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-6-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>So you helped.<\/strong><br \/>\nIf I go over some of the biggest songs in my career\u2014I brought to the table. \u201cOh Me Oh My\u201d was from a young Scottish writer from Glasgow\u2014that first album I did with Jerry, Tom and Arif. It was the hit on it. Aretha says it\u2019s one of her favorite songs of all time. \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Fight\u201d\u2014a lot of the songs I\u2019ve gotten recognition for. That\u2019s why my brother said to me\u2014of course you can write songs. You know exactly what\u2019s right. More than that, you know what\u2019s <em>not <\/em>right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best advice someone has given you.<\/strong><br \/>\nElton John, many years ago\u2014I must have been in my 40s: \u2018You must <em>never<\/em> stop touring. You always have to keep doing that live stuff. It\u2019s what you\u2019re made for.\u2019 It\u2019s who I am. People go, \u2018Oh, you still work.\u2019 I say, \u2018yeah, this is what I do.\u2019 People are surprised because I\u2019ve been around for so long. When you\u2019re not on TV every week, which I was a lot during my early career\u2014I\u2019m sure some people think you died. (<em>Laughs<\/em>) When you\u2019re not on TV, they don\u2019t even know you\u2019re alive anymore. People are still curious\u2014why do you still do it after all these years? Because I <em>love<\/em> it! This is what I <em>do<\/em>. This is who I <em>am<\/em>. I am getting older, no doubt about it, but I have the spirit of a teenager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best advice you\u2019d like to give upcoming musicians.<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you love music\u2014it\u2019s one of the greatest gifts you\u2019ll ever be given. Love music, keep doing it and enjoy it. I think if you got it, you have to keep doing it. And that\u2019s what Elton meant when he said that to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s next?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019m still doing music. I am all business. This is what I want\u2014what I love. I\u2019m coming to America\u2014doing this thing at B.B. King\u2019s, and a few other dates, because I\u2019m doing what I want. It\u2019s kind of sweet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can your new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Lulu.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lulu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17270\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu.jpg\" alt=\"Lulu\" width=\"660\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Lulu-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO FEATURE &amp; WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Musician: LULU Music Video: \u201cFaith in You\u201d ICONIC \u201cTO SIR WITH LOVE\u201d SINGER LULU WILL PERFORM AT B.B. KING\u2019S IN NEW YORK\u2014MAY 30, 2017 Lulu started young, as a 15 year-old Scottish soul sensation. 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