After gracing stages across the UK and beyond for 60 years Lulu is set to retire — and apparently she’s going out with a Boom Bang-a-Bang.
The 75-year-old icon revealed last month that she planned to wrap up her stellar career after years of Eurovision triumphs and a chart topping Bond song.
But before Lulu says goodbye, she’s reportedly taking to the stage at the UK’s biggest festival, Glastonbury.
The Scottish icon has been on a ‘gruelling’ tour for the last year, which she explained is her farewell tour and will come to an end with only a handful more shows.
She’s set to play the London Palladium on Wednesday before heading to Germany and back to London in May.
However, according to The Sun, Lulu’s final gig will be on the Avalon stage at Worthy Farm in June, which has just released fresh tickets.
‘Lulu is going to be announced as a performer at Glastonbury next week,’ an insider told the publication.
They continued: ‘It’s a massive deal for her and she can’t wait to play the Avalon stage. When Glasto organiser Emily Eavis got in touch about going down to the farm she couldn’t turn it down.’
The Shout hitmaker first played the Avalon stage in 2015, which she said at the time was ‘just fantastic’ and the crowd were ‘deafening’.
‘It will be an emotional moment for her as it’s the last time she will ever play Glastonbury,’ shared the insider.
Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, rose to fame in the early 60s aged just 15 and landed chart success with the Isley Brothers cover.
Hits like Leave a Little Love and Try to Understand followed as she moved record labels and continued to climb the UK charts.
She won 1969’s Eurovision with Boom Bang-a-Bang, although that crown was tied with three others; Spain, The Netherlands, and France.
While speaking to Gyles Brandreth on the Rosebud podcast, The Man Who Sold the World singer shared: ‘Last year I did a tour that was kind of gruelling – it was successful, it went well – but you need an army to be a success in your career these days.’
She continued, saying that she felt ‘unsupported’ with her music, ‘but then I turned 75, and I thought ‘you know what, I want to carry on working, but I want to do it a different way. I’ve learned.’
The Relight My Fire hitmaker then teased fans with what they can expect during her final string of shows: ‘I’m not going to tell you exactly what I’m going to do, but of course I’ll have to do ‘Boom Bang-a-Bang’. The audience want to do it by themselves anyway.’
So maybe, just maybe, fans flocking to Somerset for this year’s epic Glastonbury festival will get to see the final hurrah for this icon of pop.
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