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Inside Lulu’s huge plans for her farewell tour as she speaks for first time after announcing retirement
Lulu revealed she's got a new album planned as she opened up about her future
POP icon Lulu has revealed she is in talks to produce a documentary after announcing she was retiring from touring.
The Shout hitmaker, 75, told last week how she will perform at a string of dates in April for the last time as a farewell tour.
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And now speaking for the first time since sharing the news, she has opened up about plans for the big gigs.
Chatting to The Sun at the TV Choice Awards last night, Lulu said: “I was 75 in November and this is my 60th year and I don't know if I want to tour again.
“I’m going into the studio to do a new album with a few interesting people but I’m not going to tour again.
“I may do concerts, but I’m not going to tour again.”
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Lulu, who first shot to fame following her debut 1964 hit Shout at just 15-years-old, says there are plans to share the experience with her fans.
She added: “They're talking about a documentary.
“When I say ‘they’ I mean the managers, the agency, because a couple of people have mentioned it but we’ll see.”
Lulu broke the news last week on Gyles Brandreth’s Rosebud podcast and revealed since then famous friends had been in touch about appearing on her tour and album.
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She said: “There’s a lot of people that I couldn't ask to feature because they’re not in the country.
“In this business you see each other a lot at one minute and then you don't see them for months or even years, so it’s whoever is available.
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“A couple of people called and said ‘I want to be in it’.”
The Boom-Bang-a-Bang hitmaker will hold her final show of the Champagne For Lulu tour at the London Palladium on April 17.
It comes after she told the podcast: “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.
“And I felt unsupported. 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’."
Lulu recently told how she was left “frightened” when a GP told her that she had raised cholesterol - a condition which had affected her father Eddie before he died.
She reflected: “My father's death - at the age of 71 - was terrible. I loved him dearly.”
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