Not all of the great female singers of the 1960s British Invasion were English. Lulu, one of the U.K.'s biggest singing stars of that decade, was from Scotland.
Born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie and raised in Glasgow, Lulu began singing at the age of twelve and started her recording career in 1966. The following year, she made her acting debut in the Sidney Poitier movie To Sir, with Love, about an idealistic Guyanese teacher educated in America and teaching at a London school attended by working-class toughs. Lulu recorded the movie's theme song of the same name, an it became the biggest-selling single of the year in the U.S.
Lulu won the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with her song "Boom Bang-a-Bang," which caused some controversy among those who hated it.
Fun fact: She was briefly married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.
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