Lulu reveals details of “fling” with David Bowie: “He had the best thighs”
Scottish pop icon Lulu has revealed details of a “fling” she once had with David Bowie.
Lulu made the confession on the latest episode of The Louis Theroux Podcast, released on March 17th, when she touched on the “intimate” relationship she had at one time with the rock icon, extending far beyond the studio.
Theroux first brought up the subject of Lulu’s iconic 1974 cover of Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, which transformed the song into a bigger hit than the original, before adding: “We should say that you had a relationship with him”.
The singer then clarified that it was “a brief relationship, a fling”, saying, “I think you don’t have to have had an intimate relationship with David Bowie to know he had the best thighs – he and Naomi Campbell.”
Within this, Lulu also revealed that this would have been in the aftermath of the break-up of her relationship with Bee Gees member Maurice Gibb, but that she was simultaneously seeing hairstylist John Frieda at the time.
However, she then discussed the night in which she and Bowie had their , which led to Bowie encouraging her to cover ‘The Man Who Sold The World’.
“I had been drinking but constantly elated with the conversation we were having, which went on for the whole bloody night,” Lulu said, adding, “Oh, we talked about everything – Buddhism, music people we liked, songs, singers, musical instruments, who’s the best guitarist, all that. The things that we were interested in. And we were actually very much on the same page about a lot of things.”
She continued: “The famous thing that he said to me that night was, ‘I’m going to make a fucking hit record with you’. First of all, though, he prefaced that with, ‘the record companies don’t know what to do with you. They don’t get you. They don’t get your voice either. I’m going to make a fucking hit record with you’.”
Noting, “He thought I was caught stuff, you know?”, Lulu said she “was absolutely blown away by that because my brother and I were mad about the album Hunky Dory.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lulu discussed various subjects within the span of her six-decade career, including the rise of The Beatles, her relationship with Gibb, and her struggles with alcoholism.
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