Scots singer Lulu: 'I will never find the songs David Bowie and I recorded together because he lost them all and now he's gone'

Scots singer Lulu opens her heart on her relationship with the Thin White Duke 

She has spoken about her passionate affair with David Bowie in the 1970s and how she was mesmerised by the iconic pop pioneer.

Their relationship may have been short-lived, but Scots singer Lulu has described it as 'amazing' and told how sexual chemistry brought them together.

But the 75-year-old has now told how music also united them – and revealed there's a cache of lost songs that were recorded during their time together.

But the tracks have never been heard and – nobody knows where they are.

STARWOMAN: Now 75, Lulu wonders what became of tracks recorded with her ex-lover David Bowie

Their relationship may have been short-lived, but Scots singer Lulu has described it as 'amazing' and told how sexual chemistry brought them together (pictured in the 1970s)

But the 75-year-old Lulu (pictured in 1971) has now told how music also united them – and revealed there's a cache of lost songs that were recorded during their time together

Lulu said: 'It doesn't look like we'll ever find them. Isn't that annoying? He did say he was going to find them, but he never came up with them, and now he's gone.'

The Ziggy Stardust singer died in 2016, two days after the release of his 26th and final studio album, Blackstar.

Even now Lulu still performs her cover of his song The Man Who Sold the World.

In 2017 she released her autobiography, I Don't Want To Fight, in which she touched on their relationship.

But she admitted: 'I should never have written an autobiography, I think at 75, I might be more vulnerable than I've ever been.

'I always wanted to be Miss Perfect. And my mother always told me it doesn't cost you anything to smile. So I've always done that. To be vulnerable is to be very real. And I think I've avoided that. I don't let everybody in.'

Reflecting on their relationship, Lulu told the Telegraph Magazine that Bowie's drug-heavy lifestyle drove her away.

She left him for celebrity hairstylist John Frieda, who she married in 1976 and had her son, Jordan, with before splitting in 1991.

Lulu has spoken about her passionate affair with David Bowie in the 1970s and how she was mesmerised by the iconic pop pioneer

Bowie performing Glastonbury Rock Festival, Pilton, Somerset, June 2000

David Bowie performing in 1973

Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, in Glasgow, burst onto the music scene in 1964 at just 15 with her hit Shout when John Lennon and Paul McCartney named it as their favourite record of the week.

In 2000 she was appointed an OBE and in 2021 was upgraded to a CBE. Mid-pandemic, Lulu wasn't able to receive the honour from a member of the Royal family.

But she had met the now King in his capacity of Prince of Wales in 2000.

She said: 'In a strange way I've felt connected to him all my life. We were born in the same month in the same year. When we met, he was totally Prince Charming.'

Lulu is now preparing for Glastonbury which she'll perform at for the final time after announcing her retirement from touring.

Her set will include Shout, although she joked: 'I thought I'd leave it out!

'No, the main thing is you go to Glastonbury and give them what they want. That song is a part of me. You give them that part of you. They're happy and you're happy that they are.

'It's an exchange. Bringing people joy is what I do. It's what I get for doing it. I love it, I look forward to it. How lucky are we, to be in the business of music?'