Lulu hopes to find lost Bowie duets

Lulu ponders long lost recordings and her brief relationship with Bowie in the 70s
David Bowie and Lulu in 1973

Lulu is on the hunt for the missing tapes of a recording session she did with her former paramour David Bowie in 1973.

As she prepares to kick off her Australian tour, the singer said she enjoyed a brief working and personal relationship with Bowie after she enjoyed a hit with his song ‘The Man Who Sold The World‘ in early 1974.

One of the lost songs that they recorded together was ‘Can You Hear Me?’ which later featured on Bowie’s Young Americans album. Another was ‘Dodo’ which has surfaced online in recent years and can be heard below.

In recent interviews Lulu has spoken candidly about their relationship.

“I had a small window when I was involved with Bowie,’ she said of their brief but passionate affair, which began in 1973. “David Bowie’s thighs were incredible,’ confessed the 66-year-old Scottish singer. “Long and slim but muscled, not pumped up but really powerful. They were strong, even though he was emaciated at the time. I often think that he had similarly shaped thighs to Naomi Campbell. We were so connected because of the music – it was the personal stuff that was… odd. Some of the conversations we had were insane. He told me I should lose weight. I was a bit embarrassed because I was always a little chubster, but he was talking in terms of my image – that was the thing then, that heroin chic look. He didn’t say it when I was in a compromising situation with him. My mum thought Bowie was the weirdest thing she’d ever seen, and to a mother of course he was.”

“I saw David about 12 years ago,’ she recalled. “Meg Ryan and I went to see him do a radio concert for the BBC. He was very charming. Bowie is Mr Charm – he has totally got that gift. When he talks to you, you are the only person in that room, the rest of the world kind of dissolves – it’s like being hypnotised. He really is something else. A one-off.”

“Making a record with David Bowie was pretty rock ‘n’ roll!” she told another interviewer. “I thought he was so cool and I wasn’t so cool. But when he met me, he said, ‘You have a fuck off voice and I’m going to make a hit with you. I always perform ‘The Man Who Sold the World’, the song that we recorded together in 1974.”

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