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Lulu: Telling the world I'm an alcoholic was liberating
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PA Media Lulu recorded her first single, Shout, at the age of 15Initially, Lulu couldn't believe she'd blurted out her biggest secret.
Lulu Lulu, pictured with her father Eddie at her wedding to Maurice Gibb in 1969Lulu The musician (left) was often left to look after her younger siblings Edwina and BillyFor Lulu, the secrets started as a child.
Growing up in Glasgow's tenements, Lulu - whose name then was Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie - lived in a "war zone".
Getty Images Lulu and David Bowie had a brief affair in the 1970sOne person who noticed her potential was David Bowie.
"He said, 'The record labels don't get you and they don't hear your voice either,'" Lulu recalls.
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