Lulu: '˜Madonna and I recorded worst ever Bond themes'

Lulu thinks she and Madonna should be crowned joint winners for the title of worst Bond theme ever recorded. Picture: Ian West/PA Wire

The Shout star sang The Man With The Golden Gun for 1974’s 007 film with the same name and admitted to not thinking much of it, but claimed that Madonna’s Die Another Day from 2002 was equally awful. In a promotional video for Vauxhall Astra, Lulu, while driving around her home town of Glasgow in an Astra, was asked about being one of just a handful of artists to have a Bond theme to their name.

The singer, who announced a new tour yesterday, modestly replied: “Except I think mine was probably the worst one ever. Mine was not a great song.”

But when the interviewer asked if she had heard Madonna’s offering, she said: “Oh yes, hers was pretty bad. Me and Madonna.

“That’s the only time Madonna and I could be together on anything.”

Lulu, 68, also shared some of her favourite celebrity encounters. Talking about The Beatles being early fans of hers, she said: “John Lennon and Paul McCartney were on Ready Steady Go! and Cathy McGowan said to them, ‘What’s your favourite release this week John, what’s your favourite Paul?’

“They both looked at each other and said ‘We love Lulu’s Shout’. “Can you imagine, 14 years of age and The Beatles are saying that my record’s their favourite – even now I’m getting hot thinking about it.”

She said she had met Frank Sinatra who had offered to coach her in vocal warm-ups, but that she missed the opportunity out of shyness.

Lulu said: “If I was a pushy kid, and I wish I had been, I would have called him and said, ‘You promised me those lessons’.”

“But, idiot – not even pushy, I wasn’t smart enough.” Lulu spoke about her first meeting with the late David Bowie, who she went on to have a relationship with.

She said: “I first met him in a studio with Iggy Pop and Iggy Pop gave me a filthy look. He just did not want me around.”