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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Well, this episode has got it all: gripping stories, laughter, tears and a lot of singing. Gyles takes Lulu back to memories of her childhood in Glasgow, which was both happy and turbulent, but full of love and music. She remembers her early performances - as a very young girl at a street party for the Queen's coronation, and then as a 5 year-old, standing on a chair so she could reach the mic, in Blackpool. She tells Gyles about making it, about singing so loudly while recording "Shout" that she broke the microphone, and about meeting The Beatles. She talks about working with David Bowie, their close relationship and the lost recordings they made together, and we get an exclusive performance of her version of a David Bowie track. This is a fascinating and very entertaining episode, full of highs and lows. Thank you, Lulu.
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| 0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
| 0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s. |
| 0:08.0 | Tea break. |
| 0:09.0 | Lunt break. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right? |
| 0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go play some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun |
| 0:26.5 | terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org |
| 0:29.3 | hello this is giles brownruth and welcome to rosebud the name of the podcast is inspired by the film Citizen Kane, |
| 0:39.3 | in which Kane is haunted by the image of a sledge he was playing on |
| 0:44.3 | the day he was taken away from his childhood home. |
| 0:47.3 | The make of the sledge was Rosebud. |
| 0:50.3 | And that name comes to represent the simplicity and perfect happiness of childhood. |
| 0:57.0 | In Rosebud, I'll take this as the starting point and find out how these memories have shaped my guests and informed the rest of their lives. This episode |
| 1:11.6 | This episode of Rosebud is special. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, actually, I like to think they're all special, |
| 1:33.3 | but this one is extra special because it's with Lulu. |
| 1:37.3 | And I have been a fan, or perhaps a bit more than a fan, of Lulu's for, I think probably, for about 60 years. |
| 1:45.8 | In fact, yeah, it's possible because we are the same age. |
| 1:48.9 | Lulu has been making headlines for so long that sometimes it's easy to forget |
| 1:52.7 | just how groundbreaking she was in the early days. |
| 1:56.3 | She was only 15 when she had a top 10 hit with her instant classic shout. |
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