Lulu relives night of passion with David Bowie as she opens up about their love

Lulu has shared intimate details of her affair with David Bowie for the first time - saying it was “deeper than sex”. The Shout singer had a romance with the Starman icon in the 1970s after meeting at a hotel in Sheffield.

Detailing her first night of passion with the Ziggy Stardust legend, Lulu said her memory is a bit hazy due to being a bit tipsy. “You know what, I have never said ‘Yes, I had sex with David Bowie’ until now,” she coughed. “This is the first time I've said it because I've always chose not to speak about it.

“It was private. And if I'm 100% honest, which I have decided that's what I'm going to be, I think I was slightly pissed. I can't really remember. Only to say that he got me there and we were in his room, and you know, we performed the acts and I don't have to go into bloody details because I can't actually remember details, but I wouldn't share them anyway. I do have boundaries. I'm learning to have boundaries."

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She continued: “But the point is, I did and it was an incredible experience to work with a guy like that, to be in his orbit. He honoured me.”

Scottish singer Lulu - famous for hits like To Sir With Love and Relight My Fire with Take That - enjoyed a fling with Bowie in the mid 70s, while he was married to wife Angie. She said he was extremely supportive of her career and recalled how he gave valuable advice on what musical direction she should go in.

“He was the coolest dude on the block,” she remembered. “He said he's going to record me. As soon as I walked back to my room that first night, I got into my room in the hotel. Phone rang. It was him. I’d just left him. And it was: ’We're going to do this.’ I was like ‘Oh my God, I think he's serious.’”

She insists their relationship wasn’t just about sex. “I’m only looking to be loved and to give love," said Lulu. "And I don't mean I want to have affairs and it's about sex. It's about a much deeper thing than that. And that was what we shared. I felt he saw me.”

Lulu famously covered David Bowie's 1970 song The Man Who Sold the World in 1974. Bowie produced the track, contributed backing vocals and saxophone. Lulu also recorded his Dodo and Can You Hear Me but were never released. Describing Bowie as a “chameleon”, Lulu said he wanted to change her appearance, which led to an awkward encounter.

She said: “We were sitting, this or two of us, and he leaned forward to me… ‘I think you could lose a bit of weight,’ he said. I was crushed. Because I don't think I was fat, but you know, he was emaciated, and I think he really wanted to take me and redesign me to get me to a place that he thought was better for me.”

Ultimately she cut ties with him because he wasn't good for her. Speaking to Fearne Cotton on her Happy Place podcast, she said: “I would have loved it to have continued, but you know, when I then went to New York to do the next lot of recordings, David was not in a place that I felt comfortable with because he was doing a lot of drugs.

“I was hanging around a lot. But it didn't go any further than that because I decided I'm going back to London. I’m not comfortable. And you think, remove yourself, politely or not, however you feel you should do it. And so that's what I did with Bowie.

“And of course he thought I was angry with him. I wasn't, I mean, I was maybe frustrated, but I wasn't angry with him. I mean, I just loved him and I just loved his talent. But I thought, you can't just sit around here.”

Bowie died in 2016, aged 69. Lulu was married to Bee Gees star Maurice Gibb in 1969 and divorced four years later. Lulu later had one son, Jordan Frieda, with her second husband, celebrity hairstylist John Frieda. She later said she struggles to find a man because of the heartbreak of her past relationships.

Last week Lulu admitted she had been struggling with her own addiction problems, revealing she was an alcoholic. She explained how she’d developed a drinking problem in her 60s, turning to wine as she coped with menopause, losing her parents, and seeing her children leave home. Speaking about it was “liberating”, said Lulu.

Listen to the full interview on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast.

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