She was once best 15 when she had her first hit Shout in 1964 with her band the Luvvers.

Since then she’s had a lot to shout about in the romance stakes with a string of top profile fans.

This week Lulu, 70, from Dennistoun in Glasgow, admitted she have been in love with David Bowie “possibly for a minute”.

David, who kicked the bucket elderly 69 in 2016 from liver cancer, was once one of Lulu’s top profile fans but the Scots singer admitted she didn’t want any further boyfriends.

“Why would I? There are some I wish I’d had as a boyfriend, but now not extra.”

And now dwelling in London, Lulu is worked up “by myself”.

She insisted: I’m now not having a look to are living with someone. I was needy of that when I was more youthful. I may feel lonely when I travelled. Not now.”

Lulu’s Luvvers – Peter Noone

Herman’s Hermits additionally had their first giant hit in 1964, I’m into Something Good, when lead singer Peter Noone was a youngster – nearly precisely a year older than Lulu. Fame and a not unusual bond of Scotland (His mum’s family had been from Glasgow) saw the teenagers fall in love - although Peter claims it was a chaste liaison.

He said: “I used to power all the means up from Manchester to Glasgow just to have a look at her.

“We had a little little bit of a thing and I used to be in reality enamoured with her.

“But the truth was once using all the method up and assembly her dad, who labored in an abattoir. And I remember I had to sit there in a room with her little sister and have a cup of tea whilst all the time I used to be seeking to pull Lulu.”

Davy Jones

The Monkees had been one in every of the greatest bands in the world due to their American TV sequence. They invited Lulu to improve them at Wembley in 1967. Because in their popularity Lulu didn’t want to like Davy in the beginning but once they met “get on well in an instant”. But he broke her center when she came upon he had an extended-time female friend, Linda Haines, who she discovered was once pregnant with his kid.

She admitted: “I fell for him and thought he fell for me.

“I went to LA to work at the ­Coconut Grove, Davy got here to my ­opening night and I fell for him giant-time.

“I had to depart LA and pass to a gig in Miami and, because I hadn’t heard from him, I ­puzzled what was occurring... the subsequent thing I heard used to be he was getting married.

“He were dwelling with that girl so he was once popping out to look me and taking me out and the girl was once dwelling with him and I had no concept. I was ­heartbroken.”

Maurice Gibb

She met her first husband Bee Gee Maurice Gibb behind the curtain at Top of the Pops in 1968. She used to be 20, he was 19 and they fell for each different without delay, marrying in February 1969. Two of the greatest stars in the global they loved the showbiz lifestyle. They divorced in 1974 partly on account of his ingesting issues but Lulu admitted they shouldn’t have were given married.

She said: “The ingesting used to be a part of it but we shouldn’t have were given ­married in the first place... we must have just had a romance.”

She admitted she felt a failure when her marriage to Maurice, who died in 2003 elderly 53 due to complications of a twisted intestine, ended.

But she mentioned: “I decided it had to end. He didn’t need it to end and it harm him. I utterly cherished and adored him however... in love with him? I was ­most probably in love with love.”

David Bowie

As the grandmaster of Glam, Bowie was once the largest megastar in Britain when Lulu recorded two of his songs, The Man Who Sold the World and Watch That Man. He used to be 26 and she used to be 24. The Scot admitted she was “mesmerised” via the Ziggy Stardust legend she met unintentionally in a Sheffield resort in the 70s.

She’s mentioned their affair steadily over the years, since she wrote about it in her 2002 autobiography, I Don’t Want to Fight. “Has there ever been an odder couple?” she requested in that e book.

“When he concerned with me I felt like the only particular person in the room, in the universe, I found him intoxicating. It was once the sexual chemistry which drew us in combination,” she wrote.

“He was once just mesmeric and he had the best possible thighs I had ever observed.”

But she ended it after suffering to manage with what she calls his “druggy” way of life. "His scene at the time was very druggy and weird and I never felt very comfortable with it.”

John Frieda

After the excess of her first marriage and rock ‘n’ roll fling with Bowie, Lulu found family life with second husband John Frieda who she calls “the love of her life”. Back then he was an unknown assistant at her Belgravia salon but he’s gone on to become one of the most famous celebrity hairdressers in the world. He was her friend for two years before he became her lover.

Lulu said: “John came as a surprise to me because I wasn’t looking for him or anyone else. I was shattered after Maurice. I was nervous to take the plunge again.”

They married in 1975 and two months later while she was rehearsing for panto Lulu discovered she was pregnant with their son and her only child, Jordan, who has since made her a granny.

After Jordan’s birth she cut down on work to be a mum but John was building his empire. Just before her 40th birthday she miscarried their second child and she carried on working to push away the grief including a role as Adrian Mole’s mum. John moved to America while she stayed in the UK.

They called time on their marriage in 1992. But Lulu was still in bits. She admitted: “When my second marriage ended, it shocked my whole system. I was lost. I had no idea what I was going to do.”

Jason Orange

After her second marriage Lulu has enjoyed high profile relationships with younger men. When she recorded 1993 No1 single Relight My Fire with Take That – then the biggest boy band in the world – she, then aged 44, and the 23-year-old Jason had a rumoured dalliance. They have never gone public about it but have said they had a “special relationship”. She claimed: “He’s very, very cute but no, nothing happened.”

But Jason’s bandmate Howard claimed on Jonathan Ross’s BBC1 chatshow, that it was more than that. When Ross quizzed the boys about Lulu, Howard pointed at Jason and coarsely claimed: “He’s the one who f****d her!”

Angus Macfadyen

Her next toyboy was Braveheart actor Angus Macfadyen in 1997. She claimed her relationship with the fellow Scot who was 15 years her junior was “the best sex I’d ever had. My God, he relit my fire!”

The pair recently teamed up when Lulu wrote the soundtrack for the actor’s film Robert the Bruce. At the launch she said: “Angus and I had a relationship a few years ago. And we’re still really good friends.”

Stuart Manning

When Lulu was photographed at Victoria and David’s World Cup party in 2002 with young actor Stuart, tongues began to wag because of the age difference. She was 53 he was 21, three years older than her son at the time. She has never revealed the depth of the relationship.

At the time Lulu said: “He is a lovely guy. But it’s just a bit of fun, nothing too serious. I like young guys and I also like men who are my own age - I don’t discriminate when it comes to age."

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